{"id":246031,"date":"2026-09-30T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-atiku-demands-publication-of-nigeria-u-s-health-deal-says-ghana-rejected-its-health-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:00:24","slug":"nigeria-atiku-demands-publication-of-nigeria-u-s-health-deal-says-ghana-rejected-its-health-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-atiku-demands-publication-of-nigeria-u-s-health-deal-says-ghana-rejected-its-health-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Atiku Demands Publication of Nigeria-U.S. Health Deal, Says &#8216;Ghana Rejected Its Health Deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Former Vice President and ADC presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has demanded the immediate publication of Nigeria&#8217;s health agreement with the United States, following Ghanaian President John Mahama&#8217;s disclosure that Ghana rejected a proposed US health compact over concerns about medical records, pathogen information, funding obligations and the inspection of imported medicines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Atiku made the demand in a statement issued on Monday by Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609300073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President and ADC presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has demanded the immediate publication of Nigeria&#8217;s health agreement with the United States, following Ghanaian President John Mahama&#8217;s disclosure that Ghana rejected a proposed US health compact over concerns about medical records, pathogen information, funding obligations and the inspection of imported medicines. Atiku made the demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9899,7012,6979,4508,4509,5731,257,4687,55552,9720,9170,254],"class_list":["post-246031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atiku","tag-deal","tag-demands","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeriau-s","tag-publication","tag-rejected","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}