Nigeria is stepping up efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign medical data with the development of a 400,000-sample biobank, a move that could reshape how diseases are studied and treated in Africa’s most populous country.
The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) says its growing re
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Royal Ibeh
Royal Ibeh is a senior journalist with years of experience reporting on Nigeria’s technology and health sectors. She currently covers the Technology and Health beats for BusinessDay newspaper, where she writes in-depth stories on digital innovation, telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and public health policies.
