Why Nigeria’s 1999 health insurance law failed the informal sector, left 90% unprotected

    Royal Ibeh | Insights | Mar 24, 2026    
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Nigeria’s first national health insurance law, enacted more than two decades ago, largely failed to protect the country’s vast informal workforce and left about 90 percent of citizens without coverage, health industry executives and policy stakeholders said on Tuesday.

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