Nigeria, Oct. 23 -- Gatefield, a media group focused on driving social change, and health stakeholders have renewed calls for urgent reforms to fix Nigeria's health system and improve the country's low life expectancy.

They made the call at the 2025 Gatefield Health Summit in Abuja on Wednesday. The summit, themed 'Resilient Health Futures,' focuses on tackling chronic diseases, health financing, pandemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and advancing the One Health approach.

In his keynote address, Gatefield Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Adewumi Emoruwa, confronted the reality of Nigeria's health crisis, citing life expectancy as a key indicator of systemic failure.

Mr Emoruwa said the average life expectancy of a ...