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.
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Nigeria’s public university system has lost about 57 months to industrial action since 1999. This has implications for the future workforce.
Niger soldiers conduct a simulated mounted patrol.
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West African governments need to be clearer about the similarities and differences of violent extremist groups.
Windcatchers in Iran use natural air flow to keep buildings cool.
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Members of the Nigerian Institute of Building during a walk against building collapse in Lagos in March 2022.
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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.
Nigerian terrorists Boko Haram attracted worldwide condemnation when it kidnapped hundreds of school girls.
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Families are worried that a new Nigerian law will stop them getting their kidnapped friends or relatives back.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organisation.
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Creating employment and fighting corruption are two of the subjects discussed in the wide ranging discussion.
Some development projects skip environmental impact assessments.
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Nigeria’s Environmental Impact Assessment Act is not protecting the environment enough and citizens need to get involved.
New train services like this, in Lagos, are designed to boost economic activities and ease movement of passengers.
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Bola Tinubu will be saddled with a near comatose economy. Here are four priorities that would make the difference.
Little bee-eater (Merops pusillus)
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Monitoring bird population trends in Nigeria is a valuable activity – but it requires trained people and commitment over the long term.
Central Bank of Nigeria, Ibadan zonal office.
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Nigeria’s banking sector is dominated by local players born out of state policy.
A protest against human trafficking in Lagos.
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Human trafficking has become a global concern. Nigeria’s efforts at reintegrating survivors into society have been largely unsuccessful.
The University of Lagos is one of the institutions affected by the lecturers’ strike in Nigeria.
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Creating more universities in Nigeria has serious implications for quality of graduates.
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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.
Things are not rosy for Nigerians as food prices keep rising.
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Inflation is perhaps the biggest poverty accelerator in the economy due to its weakening effect on people’s purchasing power.
Motorbikes riders in Nigeria’s capital Lagos.
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Rather than ban motorcycles, the Nigerian government must intensify its military campaigns and address socioeconomic causes of insecurity.
Recent fines on media houses in Nigeria are attempts to gag them.
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Media houses fined recently by Nigeria’s Broadcasting Commission for documentaries on terrorism should approach the courts for redress.
Bakers in Nigeria recently increased bread prices.
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Bakers in Nigeria might go on strike again to protest rising cost of operations.
Christians hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja in March 2020.
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Incidents of terror attack on churches in Nigeria don’t happen in a vacuum. They are driven by jihadism, pastoral conflicts and related criminality.