DR. Dorothy Jeff-Nnamani, Managing Director of Novo Health Africa in this interview, uses her expertise in public healthcare management to examine the practice of health insurance in Nigeria within the context of its acceptance, challenges, and prospects. Our guest holds a Bachelor of Surgery, MBBS, Master of Public Health, MPH, and Master of Science, MSc, Infectious Diseases.

PRESIDENT-GENERAL of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and two-time minister, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, does not want to witness another civil war in the country because of the nasty experience of the first one between 1967-1970. Consequently, he wants all sections of the country to truthfully air their grievances to enable Nigerians fashion a constitution themselves that will give rise to a true federation. Speaking for the Igbo, he said there is urgent need to address age-long maltreatment of the Igbo, which gave rise to agitation for Biafra Republic by Igbo youth, stressing that Nigeria’s unfairness to the Igbo is a ticking time bomb. He spoke to an editorial team of Vanguard in Lagos on Thursday.

Let me give you a general situation in the power sector as it is today that might have caused the short fall. We have been having issues with the gas supply even when we have the water. At a time, in fact the hydro plants were the ones sustaining the grid.

As a woman who has been battered before, I can say everything is possible if you want to make a change possible. We can become transformed if we decide to be transformed

Technology is the engine room for everything that we do and it is going to get intensified. There is always going to be improvements in technology, the window is usually about six months. What you know now will probably get stale  in six months’ time if you do not update yourself