Nigeria’s public university system has lost about 57 months to industrial action since 1999. This has implications for the future workforce.
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West African governments need to be clearer about the similarities and differences of violent extremist groups.
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Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital city, is notorious for frequent building collapses. A risk reduction expert offers five recommendations on how to prevent these disasters.
Families are worried that a new Nigerian law will stop them getting their kidnapped friends or relatives back.
Creating employment and fighting corruption are two of the subjects discussed in the wide ranging discussion.
Nigeria’s Environmental Impact Assessment Act is not protecting the environment enough and citizens need to get involved.
Bola Tinubu will be saddled with a near comatose economy. Here are four priorities that would make the difference.
Monitoring bird population trends in Nigeria is a valuable activity – but it requires trained people and commitment over the long term.
Nigeria’s banking sector is dominated by local players born out of state policy.
Human trafficking has become a global concern. Nigeria’s efforts at reintegrating survivors into society have been largely unsuccessful.
Creating more universities in Nigeria has serious implications for quality of graduates.
Twitter users’ responses suggest that southern Yahoo boys are more criminalised by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission than their northern counterparts. We explain why.
Inflation is perhaps the biggest poverty accelerator in the economy due to its weakening effect on people’s purchasing power.
Rather than ban motorcycles, the Nigerian government must intensify its military campaigns and address socioeconomic causes of insecurity.
Media houses fined recently by Nigeria’s Broadcasting Commission for documentaries on terrorism should approach the courts for redress.
Bakers in Nigeria might go on strike again to protest rising cost of operations.
Incidents of terror attack on churches in Nigeria don’t happen in a vacuum. They are driven by jihadism, pastoral conflicts and related criminality.
Nigeria’s next president must take these steps to redeem the country’s endangered national security.
There are hurdles in the way of Nigeria’s major opposition party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.
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