While player transfers offer the chance for financial rewards, the pursuit of career progress takes a toll on footballing families.
A group of protesters demanding better governance in Nigeria just as the country marked its 60th Independence Day anniversary on October 1, 2020.
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Although it's failed to deliver democracy to citizens, Nigeria is not the collapsed and disintegrated entity which a 2005 US National Intelligence Council analysis predicted it would become by 2020.
The sub-region's approach to free trade agreements, whether in the form of economic partnerships with the EU or regional and continental integration needs a rethink.
The poet J.P. Clark was an environmental activist who stood up for his people in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region.
Protesters at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State during a peaceful demonstration against police brutality in Nigeria.
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Given its natural resources and people, Nigeria should be a prosperous nation, but after 60 years of self governance, the country now ranks as the world poverty capital.
A tightly packed and busy urban slum in Ajegunle, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Young Nigerians are protesting bad governance and police brutality. Where is the music to assist them?
The increasingly well-coordinated global anti-vaccine movement has repurposed itself to challenge the very reality of COVID-19.
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A safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be developed in record time and may be approved for production, distribution and acceptance some time in 2021.
Professor Christian Happi, director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, displays one of the most advanced automated acid extractors being used in the laboratory.
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Large numbers of young people can represent great economic potential. But this only works if Nigeria can invest in their health and education and new economic opportunities.