Health Editors - Nigerian Healthcare Failures

The Nigerian healthcare system is failing, and people are dying from things that shouldn't be killing them in 2026. I’ve seen it happen too close to home. I’ve heard stories that should have ended differently, seen deaths that didn’t have to happen, and families left with grief and no answers. Yet these stories remain underreported, untold, and buried under headlines that move on too quickly. A recent example is the reported loss of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s son, which once again brought conversations about medical negligence to the surface. Yet similar cases still go unchallenged in a system that too often allows doctors who should have been struck off to keep practicing without consequence. At the same time, there’s a mental health crisis building among young people in Nigeria that isn’t being taken seriously enough. We have a fragile healthcare system that's barely functioning while people suffer the consequences. These aren't just statistics, they're the real lives of real people, and they deserve to be reported as such. I’m a health writer and journalist, and I’m looking to cover more underreported stories at the intersection of healthcare, governance, technology, and social impact in Nigeria, for both local and international publications. If you’re an editor commissioning health features, investigations, or personal essays on healthcare systems, mental health, or medical negligence, please leave me your email or reach me at: [email redacted] And if you’ve been directly or indirectly affected, and you have a story you want told with care and clarity, please reach out. I have pitches ready. Let’s tell these stories properly. #HealthJournalism #Nigeria #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Journalism #MedicalNegligence #HealthWriter #MedicalWriter #Journorequest