Forced return of irregular African migrants from Europe is affecting political relationships in the two regions.
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The forced return of migrants by European states has ignored pressures and interests of African countries of origin.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaking at a Chatham House event, London, in December 2022.
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Nigeria’s debt profile is disturbing but shouldn’t hinder Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ability to tackle unemployment and poverty.
Aliko Dangote.
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Dangote refinery will reduce Nigeria’s dependence on imported petroleum products and create jobs. But it may not be the best for the environment.
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Avoid ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes. They are, more often than not, bogus and fraudulent business ventures.
Men arrive for the celebrations for the Olojo Festival in Ile-Ife.
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We need deep-time African urban history and theories to make sense of contemporary urban life and anticipate its future possibilities in African terms.
Ghanaian-born curator of the biennale, Lesley Lokko.
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The Venice Architecture Biennale has an African curator for the first time this year – and a shift in focus.
The late Obaro Ikime.
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Obaro Ikime, Nigerian academic and historian, died on 25 April 2023. He was 86.
Democracy cannot survive without free media.
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Finding the right balance between media freedom and limits remains one of the greatest challenges modern democracies face.
Parents and relatives of students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna, who were kidnapped, hold placards during a demonstration in Abuja on May 4, 2021.
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A lot is said about kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria but little is known about how families mobilise resources and deliver ransom to kidnappers.
Lecturers felt unprepared for the shift to remote teaching, saying they had neither received nor sought relevant training.
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Training for academics needs to be timely, specific, relevant and appropriate for the technology being implemented.
Dividing land borders in Ghana is a contentious issue.
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Ghana’s regions have no autonomy, yet creating new ones is contentious as it threatens the interests of chiefs and political parties.
Protestors in Lagos rally against plans to remove the fuel subsidy in 2012.
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Fuel subsidy removal can benefit workers and poor Nigerians, if the process is carefully managed and implemented.
Counting of votes during the 2023 presidential elections at a polling station in Lagos.
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Electoral violence, low voter turnout, ethnic politics and voters’ suppression were notable features of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
Cash is still king in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s Central Bank didn’t have an adoption strategy for its digital currency. It was a missed opportunity.
Lagos residents use art to draw attention to the gaps in the prevention and treatment of malaria. According to UNICEF, over 1,000 children under the age of 5 catch malaria every day.
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Nigeria must do more to reduce its high malaria burden.
A factory producing insecticidal bed nets in Arusha, Tanzania.
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There have been disruptions. But national malaria control programmes have shown impressive resilience.
NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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As signatories, Nigeria and Rwanda are demonstrating their commitment to safe, sustainable use of outer space. This should have multiple benefits.
Countries around the world were not prepared to respond to COVID-19.
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A new global dataset shows there is no clear global increase of infectious disease outbreaks over time. And it can suggest which countries would most likely be affected by an outbreak.
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The rarely explained term is nebulous at best, and can mean many things – negative and positive – to different groups of people.
The digital era contributed immensely to the growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s film industry.
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Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, recently signed the copyright law. Its provisions will be beneficial only if it is well implemented.