Background Primary health centres (PHCs) in Nigeria suffer critical shortages of health workers, aggravated by chronic absenteeism that has been attributed to insufficient resources to govern ...
Pharmaceuticals account for a large share of health budgets, second only to salaries of the workforce in most countries. Coupled with the complexity of managing multiple ...
The quality of the secondary education system in Nigeria is ranked below average by both local and international bodies. Corruption is a major reason for ...
Highlights Certificates obtained from writing Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCEs) are priority documents in Nigeria. The pressure to obtain these certificates have given rise to ...
The education sector is listed among the top-five most corrupt sectors in Nigeria (Sahara Reporters, 2019). This is largely due to examination fraud and malpractice – ...
The cost of procuring pharmaceutical products – especially medicines – represents a major share of public health spending. At the same time, the significant financial resources ...
Generating additional personal income is common with primary healthcare (PHC) workforce in Nigeria, which could be because of the inconsistencies marring their monthly salaries. Therefore, ...
Corruption is widespread in Nigeria’s health sector but the reasons why it exists and persists are poorly understood and it is often seen as intractable. ...
Many studies have found that absenteeism undermines the effective delivery of healthcare. However, most studies focus on high-income countries. Low-income countries have been largely ignored in ...
West African countries are ranked especially low in global corruption perception indexes. The health sector is often singled out for particular concern given the role ...
