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Why the world should plan for historic African population boom
The Western world witnessed a baby boom post World War II. Now Africa, the world's second most populous continent, is set for a demographic boom …
A continental crisis, and a few green shoots
African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …
Low public funding in health exacerbates poverty, says Nigerian health minister
Nigeria's Minister of Health Isaac Adewole talks to Bennett Oghifo about the country's commitment to provide universal health coverage by 2030
World Chimpanzee Day 2023: A species heading towards extinction?
Chimpanzees are seriously threatened by hunting and poaching activities, along with habitat destruction and degradation, disease risk and …
Nigeria at 61: A giant with challenging crises amid opportunities
Nigeria’s economy has grown more than seven-fold since 1999; it has, however, been growing at less than 1% cumulatively during the past 6 years
What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria
Nigeria’s highly mobilized efforts to eliminate polio can teach America how to reverse the increase in measles cases and shore up its …
Star-cross in Nigeria
NGOs and the Cross River state government are locked in a duel over the latter's plans to grant logging concessions to a Chinese metal company in …
Open defecation in Nigeria: Faecal sludge is country's clicking time bomb
The country, which has the largest number of people defacting in the open, needs to frame a safe toilet technology and treat its faecal sludge, …
Ask the villager before the researcher
Nigerian pastoralists have been found to be a storehouse of valuable information on the value of plants.
Can Nigeria kill the fuel subsidy?
With nearly 5,000% increase in expenditure on petrol import subsidy, IMF and World Bank call for funds for education and health sectors
A third of Nigerians are unemployed: Here’s why
The economy of the sub-Saharan country has not been in good shape for the past 5 years and first went into a recession in 2016
What Nigerian cities can learn from the rest of the world
The rapid rate of urban population growth, fuelled by massive rural to urban migration, has overwhelmed public sector resources in the country
‘Nigeria’s economic productivity to go down by 2020’
Two reports reveal that the African powerhouse’s productivity could decline by 11 per cent due to climate change’s impact on its …
Why low-fee private schools are struggling to take root in rural Nigeria
It's unusual for children in Nigeria's rural areas to have any access to private schooling, even if it's of the low-cost variety. They must rely …
Filth is food!
Making the best of the worst could be the underlying theme behind the garbage-revolution in Nigeria
Air pollution in fast-growing African cities presents a risk of premature death
Biomass burning dominated Africa’s air-pollution cause-list for centuries; this is now changing, at least in cities
The use of Nigerian soldiers in civil unrest: What’s in place and what’s missing
‘Inadequate manpower in the Nigerian police, lack of discipline, motivation have made it inevitable for the government to mobilise the …
Lagos seals off houses sans standard toilets
Sanitation for all is one of the Sustainable Development Goals envisaged by the United Nations for a better future
Tribals raise green issues in Nigerian polls
Clashes between the Ogoni tribals and the police over the laying of an oil pipeline have made ecological degradation a key issue in Nigeria's …
100 million Nigerians are at risk of neglected tropical diseases: What the country is doing about it
Nigeria began concerted efforts to combat human and animal trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness and nagana) in 1947
How COVID-19 restrictions prevent Nairobi’s sex workers from accessing vital healthcare
Unfortunately, COVID-19 has made it harder than usual for sex workers all over Africa to access healthcare
Stuffed inside used vehicles, thousands of tonnes of e-waste reach Nigeria every year
About three-fourths of 60,000 tonnes of used electronic equipment shipped to Nigeria in both 2015 and 2016 originated from EU ports
Outrage
Ken Saro-Wiwa died because he had dared to assert the Ogonis'claims to their In Nigeria, the giant wheels of progress have been leaving a …
Monkeypox is endemic in Nigeria. But surveillance isn’t what it should be
Virologist Oyewale Tomori explains what Nigeria, where the virus is endemic, should be doing to prepare for an outbreak
