Introduction As a new governor is sworn in to lead Akwa Ibom state, the many challenges the state faces are naturally at the fore of every citizen’s mind. For the governor, the time has come to move from the poetry of campaign promises to the prose of real governance. Reviewing…

I spent a lot of my 2022 professional life travelling and doing a lot of speaking and events. It started out in January with the techpoint event where I was on a panel speaking about healthcare. I also got to judge the health startup competition and attend the award show…

It’s 11 pm on a wet and blustery Saturday night in a coastal city on the west coast of Ireland. Near the Waterfront in the city stands a non-descript pub similar to the hundred others that dot the city. Inside are the usual late-night revellers enjoying their favourite tipple. The…

2021 was arguably my most difficult year personally but also my best year as an entrepreneur. With this contradictory experience came a lot of lessons. Here are 10 I find useful to note and share. Understand that there are very little guarantees in life. In-fact I can count only 2…

Much has been rightfully made of the gender gap in VC funded startups in Africa. >80% of VC funding has accrued to male-only founding teams as illustrated by Max from “The big deal.” This data often gets the retort, at least on social media, of ‘fund more women’. This is…

Health technology in Nigeria has been bedeviled with poor adoption over the years. Early companies in the space started in the EHR space and targeted health providers. Companies such as Saboath Technologies and integrated medics, who had an early start in the EHR business are either now in zombie mode…

First published on July 13 2017 on the Digital Health Nigeria website. Editor’s note — This is an interview with a founder of a now-failed health tech startup meditell, funded by a Lagos-based incubator and was active between 2014 and 2015. He gives plenty of insights and lessons to learn…

Back in December of 2018, I got tired of the high number of new telemedicine startups that kept launching in Nigeria. This was mostly because their predecessors had either pivoted, closed shop or became zombies. This lead to me writing a digital health newsletter with the title, ‘One too many’…

It’s now becoming a tradition at the end of every year and the start of the next for me to look over the preceding year in African health tech and suggest some trends for the next year. You may review the last 2 editions here and here. As this year…