Over the years, women have clamoured for political space because men dominate both elective and appointed positions in Nigeria. From the pre-independence era, Nigerian women have played active part in politics. The action of Aba women in resisting colonial taxation…
Over the past 62 years, Nigeria’s education has made tremendous progress. It is safe to argue that it is one of the sectors that have recorded the highest level of advancement. In 1843, the first Primary School was founded in…
A shortage of oil refineries across sub- Saharan Africa coupled with soaring crude prices because of the war in Ukraine has left countries dangerously short of fuel supplies, disrupting airlines and causing queues at filling stations. The surge in prices…
Most people are unmindful of the connections between nutrition and physical growth of their children, especially in Africa, heath experts have observed. According to them, it sometimes seems insignificant when people see stunted children being called names and it stops…
Statistics from World Population Review shows that Nigeria population is growing at the rate of 2.57 per cent. It projected that the overall population of Nigeria will reach about 401.31 million by 2050. This projected increase in the Nigerian population…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) describes the COVID-19 pandemic as a defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge faced since World War II. The UN agency argues that since COVID-19’s emergence in Asia in 2019, the virus…
Financial experts say the continuous downfall of the Naira has worsened the living standards of Nigerians and made inflation to rise. The experts said in separate interviews that if the local currency continued to fall against the dollar, it could…
Political analysts observe that one of the factors that determine growth and development in every democratic government is the quality and the commitment of the representatives elected to coordinate the political affairs of the electorate. According to them, in most…
For a long time now the polity has been awash with the annual rehash of agitations for political inclusion of the country’s geo-political divides on whose turn it is to produ ce the country’s president in 2023. In the past…
Eight-year-old Josiah, from Jiri community in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau, has formed the habit of always crying when his mother, who practices irrigation farming, goes to the farm since his family relocated to Miango town after an attack on…
