“Fat cakes” are incredibly popular in cities and townships across sub-Saharan Africa. But they are also unhealthy because of their high carbohydrate content.
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After years of pressure, western countries are finally returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. What's next?
In general, intoxication is not a defence against criminal charges. There are, however, a few circumstances under which intoxication can be used as a defence.
Migration can be a matter of life and death, but religion can help people cope.
Nigeria must remove fuel subsidies and channel the funds to critical sectors of its economy.
Mobile phones are enhancing the lives of internally displaced people in Nigeria.
Structural transformation across the Nigerian economy remains very limited.
All too often, urban reforms are led by technical and infrastructural change, rather than by engaging people.
Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
Nigerian museums continue to present colonised versions of history. This harms local communities.
New technologies can help reduce the cost of producing maps that warn where floods might happen.
Flooding constitutes a threat to Nigeria achieving the global sustainable development goals.
Young Nigerians are culturally encouraged to overdrink. How can they be protected?
The Nigerian military needs a systemic approach to solving family disruptions and strains often caused by personnel deployment away from home.
Governments are purposefully using laws that lack clarity, or ignore laws completely, to carry out illegal surveillance of their citizens.
Farmer-herder conflict is taking its toll on productivity in northern Nigeria. Efforts to solve this problem must include all stakeholders and take into account their concerns.
Nigeria’s child rights law must be applicable in all states to protect children living in camps for displaced people.
The atrocities and motivation of bandits have assumed insurgent-type criminality. But the Nigerian government is reluctant to label them terrorists or insurgents.
One year after the #EndSARS protests, not much has come out of the investigations into the shootings and deaths that occurred across the country.
Nigeria’s post COVID-19 economic recovery plan has resulted in only marginal improvements in economic growth, manufacturing and foreign direct investment.
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