Plain answers, with sources
The questions families ask when someone they love is in Nigeria and they are not. Answered in the first two sentences, with the numbers and where they came from. Every page is information, not medical, legal, financial or insurance advice.
43 articles
- Money and healthcare
Sending money to Nigeria for a relative's healthcare: what it costs and what it buys
What it really costs to send money from the UK to Nigeria for medical bills, how much of it reaches care, and what the alternatives are.
6 min read · Updated - Money and healthcare
Should I keep sending money home, or set up a plan? How families use both
Remittances and a health and care plan do different jobs. What each one is good for, what each one misses, and how families in the UK combine them.
5 min read · Updated - Money and healthcare
How to pay a hospital bill in Nigeria from the UK
The practical steps when a relative in Nigeria is in hospital and the bill is yours to settle from the UK: deposits, transfers, HMO codes, and what to ask for.
5 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
What a Kinship Plan costs, and what changes the price
Billed monthly, the Kinship Plan is £20 a month. Add 1, 2 or 4 visits per month for monthly totals of £60, £95 or £160.
4 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Health insurance in Nigeria explained, for families abroad
How health insurance works in Nigeria in 2026: NHIA, HMOs, what plans cost, what 'up to' limits mean, and what a relative abroad can and cannot buy.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How do HMOs work in Nigeria? Limits, waiting periods and codes
A Nigerian HMO pays at its own network hospitals, up to a yearly limit, after a waiting period, once the hospital has an authorisation code.
5 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Choosing a hospital in Lagos for a relative, from abroad
Public teaching hospitals, private hospitals, what a consultation costs, the emergency numbers, and the questions to ask before your relative needs one.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How to get help for an elderly parent in Nigeria when you live abroad
The realistic options for an ageing parent in Nigeria when you are in the UK: family, a live-in carer, an agency nurse, a care home, or regular visits, with 2026 Lagos prices.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
A relative in Nigeria has been admitted to hospital and you are in the UK: what to do
The first 48 hours, from the UK: who to call, what to ask, what to pay, and how to make sure the discharge does not become the next admission.
5 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How to talk to a parent in Nigeria about accepting help
Why parents say no to help arranged from abroad, and the ways of asking that families say worked: framing, timing, who asks, and what to offer first.
5 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
An HMO for an older parent in Nigeria: what to look for
Choosing a Nigerian HMO plan for someone over 60: the limits that matter, the waiting periods that bite, age loading, pre-existing conditions, and the network.
5 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Care options in Lagos compared: care home, caregiver agency, home nurse, or visits
The four ways to arrange care for an older person in Lagos, what each costs in 2026, who regulates it, and which suits which situation.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Kinship, a home-care agency, or an HMO: what you get from each
The three ways to arrange care for someone in Nigeria from abroad, side by side: what each includes, what it costs in 2026, and which questions to ask before choosing.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Looking after someone in Nigeria who is not a relative
A friend, a former colleague, the woman who raised you, your late friend's mother. How to arrange support for chosen family in Nigeria from abroad, and what the person themselves has to agree to.
4 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Sharing the cost of one plan between siblings, cousins and friends
How families abroad actually split the cost of looking after someone in Nigeria, the arguments it causes, and how a plan with several supporters avoids most of them.
4 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Keeping one health record for a relative in Nigeria, from abroad
What to keep, who holds it, what to bring to every appointment, and why one shared record is the single most useful thing a family abroad can set up.
4 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Managing high blood pressure or diabetes for a relative in Nigeria, from abroad
The two conditions most older Nigerians live with, why they go wrong at a distance, and the practical set-up (readings, medicines, reviews, a person who checks) that keeps them steady.
5 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Healthcare in Ghana for families abroad: NHIS, private hospitals and what things cost
How healthcare works in Ghana in 2026 for someone with family there: the NHIS and what it covers, private insurance prices, the main hospitals in Accra and Kumasi, emergency numbers, and elderly care.
7 min read · Updated - Money and healthcare
Supporting family in Nigeria from the US or Canada
Sending money and arranging care for a relative in Nigeria from the United States or Canada: what transfers cost, the apps people use, the rules that apply, and how a Kinship Plan works for supporters outside the UK.
5 min read · Updated - Money and healthcare
How much does a funeral cost in Nigeria? 2026 prices
A modest Nigerian funeral cost about N500,000 to N2 million in 2026. Mortuary, burial, catering and UK repatriation costs, with dates.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
What happens to a Kinship Plan when someone dies
If the member dies, or the person paying dies: what Kinship does, when collections stop, what happens to the supporters, and how the family is handled.
3 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Questions to ask any care provider in Nigeria before you pay
Twelve questions for a home-care agency, a care home, an HMO or a service like Kinship, and the answers that should worry you.
4 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Dementia care in Nigeria: what exists, what it costs, what families abroad can do
How common dementia is in Nigeria, where the specialist clinics are, what home and residential care cost in Lagos in 2026, and what a family abroad can do.
7 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Recovering at home after a stroke in Nigeria, when the family is abroad
Stroke in Nigeria in numbers, what the hospital stay costs, 2025 prices for physiotherapy and medicines, and how a family abroad keeps recovery going.
7 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Pharmacies and medicines in Nigeria: buying safely and paying from abroad
How to check a pharmacy and a medicine are genuine, what common medicines cost in Lagos in 2026, why prices jumped, and how to pay from abroad.
7 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Hospitals in Abuja: public, private, costs and emergency numbers
Abuja's federal, district and private hospitals, the 112 emergency number, and private consultations at about N20,000 to N30,000.
6 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Hospitals in Port Harcourt: teaching, private and emergency numbers
Port Harcourt's two teaching hospitals, its main private hospitals, HMO networks, the 112 emergency number and home care options.
5 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
What an older person in Nigeria actually lives on: pensions, stipends and the family
How many older Nigerians have a pension and what it pays, which states give a stipend, what living costs in Lagos in 2026, and where the money comes from.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
When a parent visits from Nigeria: healthcare in the UK for visitors
What the NHS charges a visitor from Nigeria, what is free, how an unpaid bill affects the next visa, 2026 visa fees, and insurance for a long stay.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Medical treatment abroad for a relative in Nigeria: India, the UK, and when it makes sense
What Nigerians spend on treatment abroad, what a bypass or knee replacement costs in India and the UK in 2025 and 2026, the visas, and the risks.
8 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Supporting family in Nigeria from Ireland and mainland Europe
How many Nigerians live in Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, what euros to naira cost in 2025, which apps serve the corridor, and a plan.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How many Nigerians live in the UK? 2021 census figures
270,768 people born in Nigeria lived in England and Wales at the 2021 census, 117,145 of them in London. Ages, jobs, NHS staff and regions.
5 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Your own health when you split time between the UK and Nigeria
NHS entitlement when you spend months in Nigeria, GP deregistration after three months away, malaria, vaccines, prescriptions and long-stay insurance.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Looking after a family house in Nigeria from abroad
What goes wrong with houses owned from abroad, what managers, guards and insurance cost in Lagos in 2026, the tenancy rules, and the diaspora mortgage.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How AI is used in looking after someone from abroad, and what it should never do
Where AI helps a family caring for someone abroad, what the evidence says about AI companions, what regulators require, and the lines drawn for Kemi.
7 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Questions to ask when a relative is discharged from hospital in Nigeria
Eleven questions to get answered in writing before a relative leaves a Nigerian hospital, and how a family abroad gets them answered from a distance.
5 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How do you repatriate a body from the UK to Nigeria? Steps, documents and timings
From England or Wales: register the death, give the coroner four clear days' notice on Form 104, then get a Nigerian burial transit permit for the flight.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How to make an emergency plan for a parent in Nigeria
Decide who leads, which hospital and how money moves before a crisis. What Nigerian law says on emergency care, the numbers to call and a one-page sheet.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How to build a support circle for a parent in Nigeria
Who to include in a local support circle for an older parent in Nigeria, how to ask them, what to share and which emergency numbers to save.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
Is your parent in Nigeria lonely? Signs and what helps from abroad
How to spot loneliness in an older parent in Nigeria on video calls, why it matters for health, and what helps when you live abroad.
5 min read · Updated - Healthcare in Nigeria
Health check-up for an older parent in Lagos: what it includes, what it costs and how often
What a routine check-up for a parent in their 60s to 80s in Lagos usually includes, what it costs in 2026, and how often guidance suggests.
5 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How to teach a parent in Nigeria to use WhatsApp video calls and voice notes
A printable guide to teaching an older parent in Nigeria WhatsApp video calls, voice notes and photos, with data costs, quick fixes and scam warnings.
6 min read · Updated - Looking after someone from abroad
How to talk to a parent in Nigeria about wills and important documents
How to raise wills, land papers and care wishes with an older parent in Nigeria: the documents to find, how wills work and where to keep copies.
6 min read · Updated