Family planning gets a Budget Boost at the National Level

Historically in Nigeria, FP in Nigeria has been driven and funded totally by donors. In 2011, the government for the first time budgeted the equivalent of three million USD ($3million) annually for the period of 2011-2015 for the procurement of…

BREAKING: National Assembly Passes 2017 budget

The National Assembly has passed the 2017 Appropriations Bill, raising the budget from N7.28 billion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December last year, to N7.44 trillion. The Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives separately…

National Assembly to increase Health budget to N1.1tr from N304bn

The budgetary allocation to the country’s health sector would be increased to 15 percent in line with the 2001 African Union Abuja declaration, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho (APC, Ogun) said on Wednesday. Addressing newsmen…

PACFAH Tasks Media to Actively Report Health Issues

The Partnership Advocacy for Child and Family Health, PACFaH, wants journalists in Nigeria to actively report issues surrounding the health budget and finance. Health Reform Foundation  of Nigeria, HERFON, Programme Officer on PACFaH project,  Ms. Aanu’ Rotimi, told members of the Health…