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Sam Eferaro

Lagos
As seen in: Nigeria Health Online, National Mirror, Realnews
Media Consultant (health), Healthtimes Communications, Publisher, Nigeria Health Online

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Sam Eferaro’s Biography

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Sam Eferaro is the editor and publisher of Nigeria Health Online (NHO). With over 30 years of experience as a health reporter in both print and electronic media, Sam is a WHO medalist for campaign against tobacco,
He has worked in many Nigerian newspapers including Pharmanews, Nigeria's respected pharmaceutical journal, Life Mirror, Vanguard and National Mirror newspapers, all as health reporter/Editor.
Sam has also produced and presented health programmes on radio and television. He is wide…

Sam Eferaro’s Journalist Portfolio

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Task Shifting, Task Sharing: New route towards MDGs achievement?

Task Shifting, Task Sharing: New route towards MDGs achievement?

Nigeria is reputed to have one of the largest stocks of human resources for health (HRH) in Africa. Unfortuna…

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Depression, a condition to watch

Depression, a condition to watch

Three years after Joe bagged a master's degree in Economics, he's yet to find a suitable job. He has since gi…

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Do traditional healers really know what they treat?

Do traditional healers really know what they treat?

Some years ago, a young girl developed epilepsy and the family was thrown into confusion about what to do, co…

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Wanted: Nigeria's own Surgeon General

Wanted: Nigeria's own Surgeon General

Like our constitution, this is one office we need to borrow from the United States of America as a matter of …

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When government lives off the sick

When government lives off the sick

Have you bought a drug lately? From "simple" analgesic to the complex ones for serious ailments such as cance…

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Nigeria's number 1 disease

Nigeria's number 1 disease

As the remains of mama Rebecca Eferaro, my mum was being lowered into the grave penultimate Saturday, some pi…

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Articles

One Health Is Not a Slogan, Lagos Commissioner Warns as AMR Threat Grows By Sam Eferaro Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has warned that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is emerging as one of the biggest threats to human and planetar

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By Sam Eferaro
| Nigeria Health Online Verified
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has warned that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is emerging as one of the biggest threats to human and planetary health, urging Nigerians to stop the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and antimalarial medicines.
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Senior Citizens Still Standing 1: President Olusegun Obasanjo

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By Sam Eferaro
| Nigeria Health Online Verified
https://web.facebook.com/share/r/1BjTVd41ts/ You would think he was in his 30s or 40s. As he bounced onto the stage, former President Olusegun Obasanjo snatched the microphone from Charly Boy, host of the television programme, and sat down to join the conversation. The amused audience watched as the conversation progressed, with Baba at his witty best. Then the programme ended. Obasanjo stood up and suddenly sprinted off the stage.
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What Nigerian Gen Z Wants from Mental Health Support — and Why Awareness Alone Is Not Enough

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By Sam Eferaro
| Nigeria Health Online Verified
By Pharm. Gbenga Oyinloye Something interesting is happening among young Nigerians. Mental health is being discussed more openly than it was by previous generations. Conversations about anxiety, burnout, depression, therapy and emotional wellbeing are increasingly visible on X, Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp. More young people are willing to say, “I am not okay.” But there is a problem: talking about mental health has become easier than accessing mental health support.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Interviewing members of a state House of Assembly whose Speaker was "deported" to neigbouring country by the opposition central government.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Now there's fake news everywhere. but journalists and traditional media have been made to sit up and work faster.