Nigeria, Oct. 24 -- Nigeria's Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has called for a shared national commitment to make health and education top priorities, warning that the country's long-term progress depends on collective accountability and political will across all sectors.

Mr Pate, a professor made the call at a High-Level Media Advocacy Dialogue in Abuja on Thursday, jointly organised by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH) and the Engender Health Consortium.

He said Nigeria's poor health outcomes are not due to lack of technical expertise but to weak prioritisation and absence of unified political will.

"For too long, we've sel...