National Association of Nigerian Nurses in North America (NANNNA) is pleased to announce the official commissioning of four Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) adopted and renovated by the Association in Ogun State.

The commissioning will be performed by the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Ogun State, Dr. Tomi COKER, and will take place on Friday, 19th December, 2025 at the following times and venues:

8am — Imobido Primary Health Centre, Iperu Remo

9am — Iregun Primary Health Centre, Iperu Remo

10am — Aiyepe Primary Health Centre, Aiyepe, Ijebu

12am — Iwade-Oke Primary Health Centre, Ijebu Ode

Presently, NANNNA’s Adopt-A-Primary Health Centre Initiative coordinated in Nigeria by Dr. Esther OSHUNLUYI, DNP, RN, FWAPCNM, has adopted 34 primary health centres across nine states in three geo-political zones (South West, South East and South South). Five of these centres are in Ogun State, including the two at Iperu (Imobido and Iregun).

Works at the two Iperu facilities began in April 2025 and included major capital and service upgrades agreed with the Ogun State Ministry of Health, the Primary Healthcare Board, Local Government Chairmen, Local Government Health Secretaries, and community leaders. Key interventions carried out by the Association include:

Raising ground-floor buildings to one-storey structures

Construction of additional wards and administrative offices

Procurement and installation of furnitures and essential medical equipments.

At Aiyepe PHC, the Association repurposed a dilapidated building into a two-bedroom staff quarters with private bathrooms, living room and kitchenette, plus a visitors’ bathroom.

At Iwade-Oke PHC in Ijebu Ode, two additional wards were constructed and equipped for children and female patients, while the existing ward will continue to serve male patients. 

The association had earlier embarked on similar intervention at the Ita Alapo PHC in Ijebu Ode.

All renovation works were planned and approved following submission of structural engineering reports and formal approvals from the state authorities.

“These interventions are about bringing health services closer to underserved communities and providing succour to the less privileged. Our work in Ogun State demonstrates the powerful impact of partnership between diaspora professionals, state authorities, and local communities,” said Dr. Esther OSHUNLUYI, the Association's Chairperson, Health Mission Committee, and Coordinator,  Adopt-A-Primary Health Centre Initiative in Nigeria.

Selected community leaders and stakeholders in health sector, have been warmly invited to attend the commissioning ceremonies to celebrate the milestone in strengthening grassroots healthcare delivery and to witness the commencement of improved primary health care services to local communities.

The National Association of Nigerian Nurses in North America (NANNNA) is a united organization of all the Nigerian Nurses Associations and Nursing School Alumni in North America working to improve the health and quality of lives of Nigerians at home and abroad, as well as implementing strategies that will help influence health care policies and the Nursing profession in Nigeria. 

With an estimated population of over 6,000 nurses of Nigerian origin in the Americas, its goal is to pull everyone together to foster each other’s personal and professional development and to contribute to a better health-care system in Nigeria.

*Temitope OYEKAN* 

Media Officer, 

Iperu Indigenes Forum

14th December, 2025