This paper is an excursion into the operation of the recently launched National Health Insurance Scheme of Nigeria. Its primary task is to determine whether social health insurance in Nigeria, as expressed in the statute establishing the scheme, has prospects for actualizing its promise of,...

The goal of every health system is (or ought to be) universal health care. This goal is reflected in obligations nations have assumed under a number of international, regional and domestic legal and policy frameworks. In general, these frameworks provide broad guidelines, leaving each country at...

The combined force of the National Health Act (NHA) 2014, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act 1999 and revised National Health Policy (NHP) 2004 is monumental in terms of fashioning new avenues for protecting the health and wellbeing of Nigerians. The legislative and policy frameworks...