Why Every Emergency Ends Up at a Teaching Hospital: Nigeria’s Broken Referral System

By Bolaji Ogunfemi In late May 2026, a new Children’s Emergency Ward was commissioned with fanfare at the Adeoyo State Maternity Teaching Hospital in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State in south-western Nigeria. Weeks later, a man stood inside that same hospital at night, phone raised, alleging in a video which circulated on X thatContinue reading “Why Every Emergency Ends Up at a Teaching Hospital: Nigeria’s Broken Referral System”