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Health workers with relatives in positions of power were frequently absent from work.
Rice is widely eaten in Nigeria.
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Nigeria can produce more rice to feed its burgeoning population by harnessing its wastewater.
People fleeing war-torn Sudan on 13 May 2023.
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A spiralling Sudan will affect peace and security in the Lake Chad Basin region, of which Nigeria is a member.
Trucks, with goods, abandoned on Nigeria’s East-West highway cut off by flood in October 2022.
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Nigeria’s new President Bola Ahmed Tinubu faces a number of challenges. But climate change cannot be ignored.
An internally displaced person prepares a meal for her family inside an IDP camp in Benue State in northcentral Nigeria in January 2022.
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Two formidable forces have converged to push Nigeria’s food security to the brink: climate change, with its unpredictable weather patterns, and terrorism.
The late Peter Enahoro.
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Peter Enahoro, Nigerian journalist, columnist and author, died on 24 April 2023.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrives to attend his swearing-in ceremony at Eagle Square venue, Abuja, on May 29, 2023.
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inherits major security challenges. Job creation, poverty alleviation and inclusive growth may be the solution.
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.
The Ikime Family.
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.