Threatened by insecurity, farmers in Nigeria’s farm belt are increasingly abandoning their land, leading to higher cost of food
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Nigeria’s post COVID-19 economic recovery plan has resulted in only marginal improvements in economic growth, manufacturing and foreign direct investment.
There is no evidence that punishment can serve as deterrent.
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Criminalising suicide directs resources towards punishment which has no significant deterrent effect.
Resource rich African countries do not have to fall victim to the resource curse.
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Natural resource abundance in a country should not translate into a curse.
Police officers parade suspected Boko Haram militants.
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Exploring many contemporary cases of radical behaviour showed they had one thing in common: how the risk of radicalisation may be linked to fractured relationships.
Freed inmates prepare for rehabilitation and integration.
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Nigeria’s plan of de-radicalising and integrating former Boko Haram terrorists should be fine-tuned to achieve more.
Nigeria’s Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, leader of the Northern region, Ahmadu Bello and the Governor General, Nnamdi Azikiwe, at the celebration of Nigeria’s independence, on October 1, 1960.
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Nigeria’s albatross is its political leadership and its limited capability to provide effective and modern governance.
A man removes water from a fishing boat in Idenau, Cameroon. Illegal activity by foreign fishing companies has depleted fishing stocks.
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Efforts to combat illegal fishing and fisheries crime must recognise the relationship between the sector and maritime security.
Doctors in Nigerian hospitals work under difficult conditions.
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Increased funding for healthcare system would help the government quell incessant doctors’ strikes .
Governments must provide adequate sanitation and hygiene infrastructure.
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Access to water and other sanitation infrastructure depended on income level.
Mauritanian soldiers stand guard near the border with Mali in the fight against jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region.
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Jihadi groups take advantage of endemic poverty, inequality, high unemployment levels, illiteracy, ethnic divisions, and poor governance to spread their campaign of violence in the Sahel region.
Parents of abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School wail in Kaduna, Nigeria.
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Understanding what drives conflict, and tension, is the starting point for developing paths to peace.
Deaf students learning sign language at a special school
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Most indigenous signed languages in Africa today are marginalised, dominated and suppressed by foreign signed languages.
The International Airport Road Lagos, Nigeria deserted during COVID-19 lockdown.
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Almost all the people in the study were experiencing feelings like anxiety, worry, anger, boredom or frustration.
Athletes must position themselves as brands to enhance their finances.
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Athletes must seek other ways to finance their careers beyond state and private sponsorships.
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Greater focus on grassroots sports to identify and nurture talent is a sure path to regaining Nigeria's lost glory in athletics.
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Resolving jihadist conflicts in the Sahel requires treating jihadists not as terrorists only but also as political actors who seek to provide an alternative form of governance to the status quo.
Small-scale farmers use oxen to plough their farm in Kericho County, Kenya.
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Research questions the idea that getting commercial seeds and fertilisers to smallholder farmers will double yields and incomes.
A boy leaves mobile and portable public toilet at Ketu in Lagos.
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The government must shore up efforts to finance water and sanitation in Nigeria.
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Africa’s Great Green Wall must immediately speed up to meet the needs of people along the edges of the Sahara Desert.
Yusuf Grillo contributed significantly to art and art education in Nigeria.
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Yusuf Grillo charted a path in African art and enabled the emergence of more artists.