Vice-President Kashim Shettima has said the Federal Government is targeting 100,000 salaried community health workers by 2027 as part of efforts to strengthen primary healthcare delivery across Nigeria.
Shettima disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at the Continental High-Level Forum on a Fit-for-Purpose Health Workforce, while launching the Community Health Programme Continental Acceleration Plan 2026–2030, which aims to deploy two million community health workers across Africa by 2030.
He said the Tinubu administration was committed to ensuring legal recognition, certification, reliable salaries and career development for community health workers, whose services he described as critical to saving lives and preventing disease outbreaks.
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Communications, Stanley Nkwocha, revealed details of the engagement in a statement signed Thursday titled, ‘Guaranteed Legal Rights, Reliable Salaries for Community Health Workers In Sight, Says VP Shettima.’
He acknowledged that the world was facing difficult conditions, noting
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