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Northern Nigeria’s cattle rustling problem is aggravated by the regions ungoverned forests.
In some West African communities, age and magico-religious beliefs have a huge role to play in a woman’s independence.
Curator Okwui Enwezor, who has died aged 55, will be remembered for the hugely generative legacy of everything he has achieved.
Lagos has all the appropriate laws but it needs to adopt the right procedures and see them through.
Nigeria has the world’s highest number of out-of-school children and over 60 million of its citizens are illiterate. Here’s what the country can do to improve its education sector.
Research shows that unrest, even terrorism, can erupt in poor countries with a surplus of young people and not enough jobs. Can Niger, a once-peaceful sub-Saharan African nation, handle its baby boom?
South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria … the story seems to be the same.
Nigeria’s higher education system is the biggest on the continent but it lags behind on research output.
Four young women who escaped Boko Haram during the 2014 Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping are now studying in the US. Their professor recounts a recent breakthrough in their quest to go to college.
Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
Nigeria’s high unemployment rate has created a bloated and unproductive informal sector.
What a failed megacity project in Johannesburg says about similar ambitious ideas across the continent.
Investors favoured Muhammadu Buhari’s opponent, Atiku Abubakar. So what are the Nigerian president’s economic priorities?
After a long history of botched elections, Nigerians are hopeful that the 2019 poll results will be more credible.
Nigeria’s health systems are overwhelmed and incapable of sustaining high quality disease surveillance, prevention, control and response.
The power dynamics in the World Bank have changed dramatically.
This is not the first time a Nigerian poll has been postponed but it is certainly the most dramatic.
Buhari’s handling of the economy has been somewhere between poor and appalling. But the same could be said of past administrations.
Cultural icons like Achebe, Fela and Saro-Wiwa were among those who highlighted Nigeria’s failings.
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Executive Secretary, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Senior lecturer, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Lecturer in Political Economy, SOAS, University of London
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Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Visiting Scientist, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Lecturer, Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Economist and Lecturer in Management, Keele University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lakehead University
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
