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Breast cancer is curable, provided it is detected early and treated promptly.
Floods have hit 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states this year.
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Nigeria must adopt a multi-pronged approach to address its flooding menace and minimise the effects.
A UK mural employs the trending hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
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BringBackOurGirls led to a global outcry, but it simplified a complex history that is best understood through survivor accounts.
The 2020 COVID lockdown witnessed an upsurge in crime in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Nigeria should consider embracing a decentralised policing system as community mobilisation during COVID lockdown ensured law and order.
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Experts share their insights into Nigeria’s flooding challenge and steps needed to alleviate their worst effects.
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Nigeria’s Afrobeats stars love to identify with Fela’s activism and music - but their tributes are becoming opportunistic and empty.
Low birth weight is the primary cause of infant morbidity and mortality in Nigeria.
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Pregnant women attending antenatal care should be asked about cooking fuels and given help to minimise prenatal biomass exposure to reduce low birth weight in Nigeria.
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African countries need to be more deliberate in developing space capabilities.
Carnegie Mellon University’s denouncing of Uju Anya’s tweet about the Queen shows that universities need to do much more the support racialized faculty.
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Reaction to criticism of the monarchy shows that universities need to do much more to support racialized faculty and staff.
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Experts explain why there might not be much to celebrate and proffer solutions.
A woman selling Nigerian flags in preparation for Nigeria’s independence anniversary in Lagos on September 30, 2020. Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
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If Nigeria’s public office holders behave, there’s no reason why the country can’t progress.
Regular elections have not translated to development in Nigeria.
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Nigeria must strengthen its democratic institutions and improve governance for economic development.
Nigeria’s economy needs to diversify away from oil.
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There should be a better long-term strategy for foreign direct investments in Nigeria that’s not tied to its oil reserves.
Nigerian law forbids abortion unless a woman’s life is in danger.
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In the context of Nigeria’s restrictive abortion laws, promoting access to medication abortion drugs is a life saver.
Some people take the new drugs to prolong sex.
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People in Nigeria are creating new drugs either because they can’t afford more traditional narcotics, because they’re not controlled or because they’re strong.
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The time to fix the roof is while the sun is still shining. Before the economic situation goes from bad to worse, the impact of rising interest rates can be mitigated in a combination of ways.
Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria protest over crude oil theft.
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Insecurity of assets and life with declining capacity for technical and market production are responsible for Nigeria’s low crude oil production.
A group of recent university graduates in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s lecturers’ strike raises fundamental questions about how Nigerian universities are run and funded.
Kalk Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.
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The trend globally is for countries to be explicit about their maritime interests, underpinned by a sound security strategy.
Akin Mabogunje.
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Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje was Nigeria’s first professor of geography. He has died at 90.