Special Reports and Investigations

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), approximately 14 million women experience PPH annually, resulting in about 70,000 maternal deaths...

The facility, alongside many others across the state, has been struggling to provide medical care for malaria-positive patients despite being...

Tappers and researchers say palm wine production is on the brink of extinction.

Like many girls in her community, marriage came with early pregnancy, and in her village, childbirth is handled almost entirely...

As of July, MSF said over 650 children have died from severe acute malnutrition in Katsina State in 2025 alone.

Jigawa State Government’s spending on prestige projects continues to deprive essential services, such as healthcare, of funds.

The PWDs rely on poorly equipped PHCs that make no provisions for them.

The Labondo resettlement project was meant to be a turning point, a shift from temporary displacement to long-term stability.

Bayelsa is not a state gasping for resources. Financial records indicate a state that is far more financially stable than...

While some PHCs have been renovated, many communities have no health centres, and others are dilapidated, while the government spends...

A 2023 report revealed that Nigeria has the second-highest cases of maternal and neonatal deaths.

Some of the factories in Ogijo, once symbols of job opportunities and communal progress, have become agents of quiet destruction,...

In Lagos’s riverine and flood-prone communities, flooding and poor access to healthcare are forcing women to give birth in boats...

Nigeria budgets billions to maintain its prisons annually, but makes no specific provision for sanitary pads for women prisoners.

The number of Africans living with hypertension has steadily risen over the past three decades and is projected to reach...

Nigeria is rated the world’s most dangerous nation in which to give birth. According to the most recent UN estimates...

Children who are malnourished have weakened immunity, leaving them prone to frequent infections such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, and malaria.

After marriage, there is almost an unspoken countdown: within nine months, a baby and sometimes, even twins or triplets are...

Women across rural communities continue to lament the absence of essential medicines at healthcare facilities in a Borno local government.

Akwa Ibom State has one of the lowest percentages (38.6 per cent) of live births delivered in a health facility...

"My skin started burning and itching, and the rashes got worse. I had to stop using the water because it...

According to UNICEF, Nigeria has the world’s second-highest number of stunted children, with 32 per cent of children under five...

"When the political elites are affected by anything, they jump up and ensure their interests are protected. Now that HIV...

What makes Nigeria's situation dire is not just the importation of cheap milk substitutes, mainly from Europe, but that Nigerian...

She explained that in many communities, menstruating girls are seen as ‘unclean’ or carrying ‘wisp’ - a term used to...