Gatefield, a policy advocacy group, has inaugurated a comprehensive health strategy aimed at combating Nigeria’s alarming life expectancy crisis, which currently averages 52 years.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE).
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says there has been an upward trend in the life expectancy of both males and females from 2020 to 2022.
Clean-up Nigeria (CUN), a Non- Governmental Organization, has called on all stakeholders to imbibe good sanitation practices in order to increase life expectancy.
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, has said that global life expectancy for both sexes has increased from 46 to 73 years.
An economist and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Bismarck Rewane has said that Nigeria’s life…