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Nigeria's maternal mortality crisis remains one of the clearest indications of the country's failure to provide essential public services. A nation responsible for a substantial share of maternal deaths worldwide cannot continue to regard the loss of women during pregnancy and childbirth as an inevitable consequence of its healthcare challenges. Behind the statistics are women ...
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There is something deeply troubling about a society in which parents must worry about their children's safety even after entrusting them to institutions established to educate and protect them. Sending a child to school should come with reasonable confidence that the journey, the classroom and the relationships formed within that environment will be free from ...
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Nigeria's proposed 74 additional legislative seats for women offer an opportunity to address decades of political exclusion. However, reserved representation must go beyond constitutional arithmetic to confront the financial, institutional and violent barriers that have kept women away from political power. The proposal to create 74 additional legislative seats reserved for women in the National ...
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Nigeria's public finances are increasingly telling a story that goes beyond the familiar problem of insufficient revenue. The country is confronted with a more difficult question: whether the resources available to government are being deployed in ways that reflect the urgency of its development challenges. From the accumulation of public savings alongside rising borrowing to ...
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An election is often judged by what happens on polling day, that is, the conduct of officials, the credibility of accreditation, the security of ballot materials and the transparency of result collation. Yet the foundations of electoral legitimacy are laid much earlier, in the administrative decisions that determine who qualifies to participate, whose identity is ...
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There is something deeply troubling about a market in which a familiar bottle offers no reliable assurance of what its contents might do to the person who drinks it. Nigerians already contend with rising prices, shrinking incomes and the daily compromises imposed by economic hardship. They should not also have to worry that a drink ...
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The renewed talks between the Federal Government and organised labour over petrol prices, wages and workers’ welfare offer another opportunity to confront a question that has become increasingly difficult to ignore: how long can Nigerians be asked to endure economic reforms whose costs are felt immediately while their promised benefits remain uncertain? The Nigeria Labour ...
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There is a profound, grating dissonance between the daily reality of the average Nigerian and the ostentatious lifestyle flaunted by the country’s political class. At a time when millions of citizens are grappling with punishing economic hardships, skyrocketing inflation, and the agonizing struggle to put a single meal on the table, political elites continue to ...
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The death of a mother and her child beneath two overturned container trucks at Mile 2, near Freeman Market on the Apapa-bound axis of Lagos, is another grim reminder of the danger that heavy-duty vehicles pose to ordinary road users. The victims were trapped beneath the trucks and their cargoes when the accident occurred over ...
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Nigeria's petroleum sector cannot command public confidence when two of its most important institutions provide substantially different accounts of the volume of petrol imported into the country. The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has now rejected the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority's explanation for discrepancies in import records for 2022 and 2023, summoning ...
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Nigeria's food crisis is often discussed in terms of what the country must produce, how much farmers must cultivate and how the government can bring down prices. These questions matter, but they leave a glaring weakness in the country's agricultural system insufficiently examined: what happens to food after it has been harvested? A country battling ...
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Nigeria must move swiftly to contain the Ebola case confirmed in Abuja on Tuesday, October 20. The development is a cause for serious concern, given the speed with which the virus can spread through direct contact with the blood and other body fluids of an infected person who has developed symptoms. The Federal Government says ...
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Nigeria’s electricity crisis has become a persistent indictment of the country’s capacity to turn public policy into tangible improvements in the lives of its citizens. The sharp decline in power generation on Monday, October 19, when output fell from about 3,840 megawatts in the morning to 476.7MW by 1pm, exposed once again the fragility of ...
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Nigeria cannot credibly pursue suicide prevention while retaining laws that threaten people who survive suicide attempts with imprisonment. The contradiction is particularly difficult to defend when the country already has a National Mental Health Act, a National Mental Health Policy and a National Suicide Prevention Strategic Framework. The problem is no longer simply whether policymakers ...
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The treatment of more than 87,000 children for acute malnutrition in Katsina State within eight months points to a public health crisis that Nigeria must tackle at its roots. Although the figure represents a decline from the corresponding period in 2025, the number of children requiring care remains alarming. The persistence of such a high ...
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The decision by the Catholic Diocese of Gboko to suspend activities at its institutions in Ihugh, Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State, is a troubling indictment of the security conditions under which communities are expected to live and essential services are supposed to operate. When a church is compelled to withdraw its priests, teachers ...
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When large-scale infrastructure projects are unveiled in Nigeria, they are routinely packaged as monuments of engineering vision, yet, nothing drains the already fragile reservoir of public trust quite like the opaque, sudden shifts in how these mega-projects are executed or most times abandoned. The growing controversy surrounding the alleged diversion of the Lagos coastal road ...
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The Federal Government’s decision to offer temporary relief on petrol prices has reopened a difficult question in Nigeria’s economic reform programme. How can the government cushion the effects of rising fuel costs without recreating the fiscal burdens it sought to eliminate through subsidy removal? The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) introduced a discount of ...
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Nigeria is mourning another devastating loss of military personnel. But beyond the condolences, lowered flags and official assurances, the Nigerian Air Force aircraft crash in Ondo State demands questions that the country can no longer afford to postpone. An ATR-42 aircraft, NAF 931, crashed in the Igbokoda area of Ilaje Local Government Area on Monday ...
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The tragic crash of a Nigerian Air Force transport aircraft in the swampy terrain of Ondo State claiming the lives of 25 military personnel and flight crew plunges the nation into a familiar, painful mourning. Flags flying at half-mast and expressions of sorrow from state capitals to Aso Rock offer necessary solace, but they do ...
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For too long, the discourse surrounding national security in Nigeria has been bogged down by the stark contrast between the gravity of the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform and the modest realities of their economic welfare. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen standing in the line of fire face relentless dangers across varied ...
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The abduction of 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Imo State is more than another grim entry in Nigeria’s expanding catalogue of kidnappings. It is an indictment of a state that is asking young Nigerians to serve the nation while failing to guarantee their most basic right, the right to travel and ...
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The landing of the presidential aircraft at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport carrying President Bola Ahmed Tinubu back from an extended European sojourn marks more than just the end of a four-week vacation. Arriving in Lagos ahead of Nigeria's 66th Independence Anniversary, the President’s choice of entry point and the timing of his return carry ...
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The discourse surrounding the prolonged absence of the President and persistent questions regarding his health touches nerve amongst Nigerians. Citizens and political opposition are entirely justified in demanding transparency. In a constitutional democracy, leadership accountability is non-negotiable, the people have an absolute right to know the well-being and whereabouts of the leader they elected and ...
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Nigeria’s latest illegal mining figures should force a serious rethink of how the country governs its mineral wealth. Between March 2024 and August 2026, Mining Marshals identified 374 illegal mining sites across 17 states, according to the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake. Of these, 108 sites have been cleared, while 743 suspects have ...
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For the average Nigerian, the daily commute or the simple act of keeping the home and business running through a generator has long ceased to be a matter of routine, it is an endurance test. In an economy where pump prices already squeeze every household budget to its absolute limit, the realization that retail filling ...
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Nigeria’s downstream petroleum market is entering a stage where the quality of regulation may matter as much as the quantity of investment flowing into it. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has proposed 138 regulations across 23 parts to tackle anti-competitive practices in the midstream and downstream petroleum sectors. The proposed Midstream ...
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s prolonged absence from Nigeria has become too consequential to be treated simply as another presidential holiday or another episode of political controversy. The President left Nigeria on August 30 for what the Presidency described as a three-week working vacation in Europe. He spent the first part of the trip in London ...
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The controversy over the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe’s, recent comment about Nigerians asking him to “slow down” because their freezers were freezing has generated more heat than the minister may have intended. Yet, beyond the colourful phrasing, the substance of his remarks deserves a more measured reading. Tegbe was speaking at the commissioning of ...
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This past week has offered a striking juxtaposition of forward-looking economic triumph and solemn historical reflection for Nigeria’s maritime sector. From the halls of Washington to the ports of Lagos, the nation is witnessing both the hard-earned rewards of institutional reform and the poignant farewell to one of the founding architects of its modern port ...