Nigeria, April 22 -- Nigeria has upgraded about 3,000 primary healthcare centres (PHCs) and retrained over 78,000 frontline health workers as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the country's primary healthcare system.

The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Muyi Aina, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during the agency's first quarter 2026 media briefing.

Mr Aina said Nigeria's primary healthcare system is entering a phase of consolidation and expansion, driven by ongoing reforms focused on infrastructure upgrades, workforce strengthening, increased financing, and tighter accountability mechanisms.

"This year 2026 is a year of consolidation, it's a year of scaling up and ensuring that...