Temie Giwa-Tubosun

CEO of LifeBank @lifebankcares, @kolatubosun’s Wife, Tia, Eni and Kiitan’s Mom!

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

@MalazanColtaine You know nothing!

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

Vive la France! 🇫🇷

[HealthCap Africa @HealthCapAfrica]

10 years. 447,051 lives impacted. Over $143M in social return🚀

Proud to back @LifeBankCares and the incredible team led by @temite, proving that healthtech can deliver both impact and scale.

Download their impact report here➡️ https://t.co/laSaE2gUHb

#BackedbyHealthCapAfrica

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

I have never watched a basketball game I wasn’t forced to watch, actually never once watched a sports game someone wasn’t making me watch (Beyonce and Business are my hobbies) but this Nike Ad made me cry! #Knicksin5

[LifeBank @LifeBankCares]

LifeBank is heading to the WHS Regional Meeting 2026 in Nairobi.🌍

Our CEO, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, will be joining global leaders to explore how culture, technology, and systems design are shaping the future of healthcare in Africa.

Register here: https://t.co/5D96b8RR1o

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

I’m heading to Nairobi! Honored to be a speaker at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026. #WorldHealthSummit

We’re reimagining Africa's health systems through innovation and integration. Let's get to work. 🚀

🗓️ April 27-29
📍 UNON
🔗 Register: https://t.co/csAZEHfkkR

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

@TechProd_Arch Oh wow! I missed this! Thank you GB!

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

Hi Twitter, I am looking for someone senior in Flutterwave customer care. If you know someone please link them! Thank you.

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

Low-resource settings don’t need "lite" tech. They need the most advanced AI delivered in the most accessible way.

We’re ensuring that life-saving supplies are always where they need to be.

Read the full GSMA case study: [https://t.co/9STgMc5uIn #HealthTech #GlobalHealth #AI

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

Primary healthcare is the foundation of an agile health system. When supplies are available, women and children receive better care.

Thrilled that @LifeBankCares is featured in the @GSMA "AI for Impact at Scale" report for our work with OneSystem. 🧵#lifebankcares

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

We’ve built OneSystem on next-generation AI, but we deliver it through accessible technology (USSD & mobile).

The result? 🚀 31% improvement in delivery timelines. 📍 400+ PHCs onboarded. 👩‍⚕️ 1,070+ users preventing stockouts in real-time.

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

Excited to join #AfCFTAGoGlobal2026! 🌍 I’ll share lessons from LifeBank’s journey scaling tech-enabled supply systems across African markets.

📅 Jan 9 – Mar 26 | 💻 Online
👉 https://t.co/5F38wGojiG

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

This is the Nigerian spirit that makes me bullish on the country.

[Olashile Abayomi-Wealth @thefireofOla]

I stepped out of a store and saw a little boy of about 2yrs old crying to an ice cream vendor. The ice cream man was seriously yelling at him and asking him to go away, then he shoved the baby.
I was really pissed and asked what happened, he said the baby wants 🍦 and he is not with money.
How much is the🍦he said 100 naira.
Na because of 100 naira you dey push pikin?
Give am 10.
He said madam na 1k o, I no want story o.
I said give am 10 mister man.
The mother of the baby was around watching us.
Then other kids joined and I ended up buying about 30pcs or so.
Then I gave the seller 5k , he said it was excess and I said no worry.
He started crying, said he is a terrible person and he feels ashamed for how he treated the baby, I told him that I understand.
He said he hadn't sold anything and he was frustrated when the baby was tugging at him.
No wahala my bro, take this one join the 5k , e go better by God's grace.
Baby's mother was so happy and hugged me tightly. Said she didn't have 100 naira to buy for the baby that's why.
Mummy baby, you sef guide with this one.
Baby is happy
Other babies around are happy
Ice cream man is happy
Mummy baby is happy
I am fulfilled.
May God ease all our affairs. 🙏

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

@thefireofOla Heartwarming! This is the real Nigerian spirit! God bless you! 💞

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

@JoshuaCounts1 Happy birthday! 🎂

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

@_MsLinda May God heal your heart. 💞 I think your Dad was wise and so are you! I’m sure he had the type of peace nothing else could compare with as he gave and was present for you. I think he’ll be so proud of you. God bless you!

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

It is time for Minnesotans to join our real brothers! #11thProvince #Minnesota

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

@enodamade But why —- after multiple decades in health — was I excited enough to bring out my screen shot app ready to celebrate! Ugh!

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

In my very nonexpert opinion, it is not teaching hospitals that are failing, its primary care. People go to teaching hospitals because primary care has been abandoned! If we actually invest in primary care, then we will have a better chance of saving secondary and tertiary!

[UNDERSTANDING MEDICINE⚕️ @popoolaadaniel]

I’ll Expose Something that’s been hidden today. The secret No one wants to let out, It’s a long read but you’ll understand why.

Nigeria’s healthcare system needs reform. Not cosmetic reform. Not committee-after-committee reform.
Real reform. Structural reform. Urgent reform.

And at the centre of this collapse is something we don’t talk about enough:
the teaching hospital system.

It has been bastardized. Quietly. Gradually. Almost politely.
And people are dying because of it.

Let’s slow down for a moment.

A teaching hospital, in its true sense, is not just another big hospital with many buildings.
It is supposed to be the final referral point in the health system.
The place where the most complex cases go.
Where specialists teach.
Where research informs care.
Where time, depth, and thinking matter as much as drugs and procedures.

Ideally, a teaching hospital should sit at the peak of a pyramid:
•Primary Health Care handles common, simple conditions
•Secondary (general) hospitals manage moderately complex cases
•Teaching hospitals deal with rare, severe, complicated, or poorly understood problems

That is the theory.

Now, let’s be honest about the Nigerian reality.

In Nigeria, teaching hospitals spend the bulk of their time doing what primary and secondary facilities were created to do.
Very uncomplicated cases.
Cough and catarrh.
Simple diarrhoea.
Uncomplicated urinary tract infections.
Normal labour with no risk factors.

Patients stroll straight into teaching hospitals for issues that should never be there in the first place.

The result?

Doctors, nurses, and trainees are overwhelmed.
Clinics are overcrowded.
Wards are congested.
Emergency rooms are flooded with non-emergencies.

By the time the real teaching hospital cases arrive, the system is already exhausted.

And this is the most painful part.

When the complex cases come, the ones that actually require:
•prolonged clinical reasoning
•multidisciplinary discussions
•careful review of literature
•tailored, patient-specific management

…the doctors are already physically tired.
Mentally drained.
Emotionally worn out.

So what happens?

Care becomes rushed.
Teaching becomes shallow.
Research becomes an afterthought.
And patients who needed the highest standard of care receive something less than optimal.

Not because doctors don’t care.
Not because they are incompetent.
But because the system has set them up to fail.

A teaching hospital is supposed to be your last bus stop.
The place where nothing is too complex.
The place where a single patient can be discussed for hours if needed.
The place where someone can say, “Let’s go back to the literature,” and actually have the time to do it.

That vision is largely lost in Nigeria.

What we have now are teaching hospitals functioning like overcrowded general hospitals, just with more titles, more stress, and higher expectations.

And people are paying for this failure with their lives.

If we are serious as a country, we must rebuild the referral system.
Strengthen primary health care.
Make secondary hospitals functional and trusted.
Enforce proper referral pathways.

Until that happens, teaching hospitals will remain overwhelmed, diluted, and dangerous in ways that are not immediately obvious.

This is not noise.
This is not complaining.
This is a warning.

Reform Nigerian healthcare.
And do it now.

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

For a really quiet and sleepy state (Minnesota) we are always in the news for some violent stuff. We aren’t even like this at all! Just so disheartening!