September 12
Nigeria: Nigeria Is the World's Second Biggest Plastic Polluter - Expert Insights Into the Crisis
Plastic pollution is a major problem in Nigeria. Read more »
September 11
Nigeria: Nigerian Farmers Lack Insurance - Payouts Triggered By Weather Data Offer a Solution
Agriculture is hugely important to Nigeria. It makes up about a quarter of the country's economy, and almost half of the population are smallholder farmers. Most farm on less than… Read more »
September 08
Nigeria: Nigerian Households Use a Range of Energy, From Wood to Solar - Green Energy Planning Must Account for This
Low and middle-income countries generally lack access to renewable energy and rely excessively on traditional fuels like firewood and charcoal. In these countries, 2.6 billion… Read more »
August 26
Nigeria: Nigeria Has Seen a Lot of Conflict Over the Years - Resistance From Minority Groups Is a Strong Driver
Conflict and tension in Nigeria are not new. Ever since independence in 1960, there have been conflicts over natural resources and political agitations. The country has also… Read more »
August 19
Nigeria: Russian Flags Waved During Nigeria Protests - Why It's a Cause for Concern
The #EndBadGovernance protest in Nigeria from 1 August to 10 August took a rather unexpected dimension when some protesters in Kano and Kaduna states, both in the country's… Read more »
August 18
Nigeria: Sex and Alcohol in Nigeria - Marketing Tactics Send Dangerous Messages to Young Drinkers
Nigeria has a high rate of heavy drinking among young people. One study found that 55.8% of teenagers between 15 and 19 years old had engaged in binge drinking in the past month. Read more »
August 15
Nigeria: Nigeria's Niger Delta Biohazards - High Radioactive Levels Detected in New Study
The Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria, is one of the most significant oil-producing regions in the world. It spans over 70,000 square kilometres and is also an area of great… Read more »
August 14
Nigeria: Nigeria's Highest Court Says Local Governments Can Spend Their Funds Without Interference - Why This Matters
Nigeria's Supreme Court has affirmed the financial autonomy of the country's 774 local government areas. It upheld the suit brought by the federal government to strengthen the… Read more »
August 08
Nigeria: Young Nigerians' Push for Change Must Go Beyond Street Protests - Historian
Nigerians began a 10-day #EndBadGovernance protest on 1 August 2024 and are expected to continue until 10 August. They took to the streets to demand economic and political reforms,… Read more »
August 05
Nigeria: Nigeria's First Space Traveller Will Be Chosen By the Public - How This Will Boost the Country's Progress
The Blue Origin space craft owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to take six individuals to space from nations historically underrepresented in space exploration. Nigeria is one… Read more »
Nigeria: Babies in Nigeria Are Being Born With Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Sepsis occurs when one's immune system has an extreme response to an infection. It's a life-threatening condition: globally, it accounts for about 11 million deaths - 20% of all… Read more »
July 31
Nigeria: Nigeria Under Cost of Living Pressure - 8 Essential Reads On Rising Tensions
In recent times, Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy, has been under intense pressure. Read more »
Nigeria: Fela Kuti Is More Famous Today Than Ever - What's Behind His Global Power
Almost three decades after his passing in 1997, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary Nigerian musician and activist who created the Afrobeat music movement, remains the subject of… Read more »
July 25
Nigeria: Nigeria's Ojude-Oba Festival Celebrates Heritage With Colourful Parades and Horsemanship - How It Could Be Used to Attract Tourists
The Ojude-Oba festival is a vibrant annual celebration that has become an integral part of the identity of Ijebu-Ode, a city in south-west Nigeria. This colourful event, famous for… Read more »
July 23
Nigeria: 11 Million Nigerian Children Are Going Hungry - How This Hurts Their Health and What Needs to Be Done
Unicef, the UN agency for children, reported in June 2024 that around 11 million Nigerian children were experiencing severe child food poverty. Read more »
July 21
Nigeria: Nigeria's Chronic Power Shortages - Mini Grids Were Going to Crack the Problem for Rural People, but They Haven't. Here's Why
Electricity is a scarce commodity in Nigeria. With just over 4,000 megawatts supplying nearly 220 million people, the electricity access deficit stands at about 40% nationwide. The… Read more »
July 16
Nigeria: Corruption Hurts Businesses but Digital Tools Offer the Hope of Fighting It, Say Manufacturers in Ghana and Nigeria
Technology has changed the way the world does business. Mobile and digital payment platforms, blockchain, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) tools have all driven… Read more »
Nigeria: Suicide Bombings in Nigeria - Tactic Is Back After a Four-Year Break - Security Researcher Offers 3 Possible Reasons
Nigeria's first suicide bombing since 2020 took place in June 2024 with four coordinated attacks that killed at least 30 people. Read more »
July 15
Nigeria: Pregnant Nigerian Women Need Faster Access to Hospitals - Technology Helped Us Calculate Travel Times
Nigeria contributes 28% of the 280,000 maternal deaths and about 10% of almost two million stillbirths that occur annually across the globe. Read more »
July 12
Nigeria: Wole Soyinka At 90 - Writer and Activist for Justice
Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, the legendary African author and activist, is proof of what words and acts can achieve in the struggle for justice and human rights. Soyinka, aged 90,… Read more »
July 08
Nigeria: Surviving Breast Cancer - Nigerian Women Share Their Stories
"I believe I will still beat it again." These are the words of a Nigerian woman, Didi, who feared a recurrence of her cancer - but saw herself as a survivor. Read more »
July 04
Nigeria: Nigeria's Migration Policy - Lots of Laws but No Coherence and Poor Implementation
Nigeria's migration policies are extensive on paper. Designed to address both emigration and immigration, they reflect the country's role as a migration hub in west Africa. Read more »
July 02
Nigeria: The Road to the Village - Novelist Chigozie Obioma On Nigeria's Brutal Civil War, Love and Redemption
Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric… Read more »
July 01
Nigeria: Boko Haram and Western Education - the Surprising Views of Some Nigerians Who Left the Insurgency Group
The world has come to associate the insurgency in north-east Nigeria with the slogan "western education is forbidden". This is how "Boko Haram" - the name given to the insurgents -… Read more »
June 26
Nigeria: Nigeria's Cholera Outbreaks - Why They Happen and Are So Hard to Control
On 9 June 2024 the Lagos State government declared a cholera outbreak. Three days later, it announced that 324 suspected cases had been reported in the state, including 15 people… Read more »