That simple observation is the premise behind the Grassroots Health Detectives (GHD) 1.0 programme, a five-day community biosecurity and disease surveillance training that has just graduated fifty frontline health workers in Hadejia, Jigawa State, selected from a pool of more than 1,300 applicants nationwide.

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has begun updating its register of medical and dental practitioners, directing specialists nationwide to formally register their additional qualifications or risk losing official recognition of their specialist status.

The Nigerian Implementation Science Alliance (NISA) has called for an overhaul of health professionals’ training in Nigeria, saying universities, government health programmes and employers must work together to close the gap between academic training and practical experience.

More than 24 million Nigerians are currently living with sight loss, with 84 per cent of the cases caused by preventable and avoidable conditions, the Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria (OSN) has disclosed.

Nigeria is losing at least $400 million annually in productivity to hypertension, while government investment in the prevention and control of the disease remains significantly below what is required, the Legislative Initiative for Sustainable Development (LISDEL) has said.