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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansNigeria’s Otigba Computer Village is arguably the biggest information, communications technology (ICT) market in Africa. It started off as a one-man business on a street called “Otigba” in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State. Within a shor...
·almost 4 years ago
The global economy generally fell short of its forecasts, set to weaken to 2.6 percent this year, but in Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture-dependent countries such as Benin, Rwanda, Cote d'Ivoire, and Uganda grew positively, according to t...
·almost 4 years ago
Total capital flows to Nigeria between January and May 2019, stood at $14.2 billion, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed last night.Of the aforementioned amount, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) accounted for $2.87 billion, represe...
·almost 4 years ago
SOUTH Africa and Nigeria – the continent’s biggest economies and sometimes bitter enemies – have an opportunity to build a vital relationship to the benefit of both countries.This follows the hosting of the South Africa – Nigeria Investm...
·almost 4 years ago
In November last year, Nigeria declared that its water supply, sanitation and hygiene sector was in crisis. This was partly prompted by the fact that the country has struggled to make progress towards ending open defecation.Almost one in...
·almost 4 years ago
One of the greatest fashion powerhouse’s in the African continent is Nigeria, with a number of fashion designers winning accolades for their work globally. Their work exemplifies the Nigerian ethos, culture and overall diversity, for the...
·almost 4 years ago
Why are Nigeria’s universities in such a sorry state? Some would say it had to do with just one word: money. Sadly this is part of the reason. But not entirely.Nigeria’s universities have been under-funded for decades. Like a talented bu...
·almost 4 years ago
Democracy Day in Nigeria is being celebrated on the 12th of June this year. This is the first time the day has been marked on this date. And the change carries heavy symbolism for a country that’s known more years of being ruled by milit...
·almost 4 years ago
Although global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows suffered a setback of about 13 per cent in 2018, with inflows sliding to $1.3 trillion from $1.5 trillion in the previous year, but sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), recorded growth of about ...
·almost 4 years ago
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday replicate successes of his first four years in offices, citing an improved economy and better infrastructure among those achievements.Buhari won re-election in February this year, polling...
·almost 4 years ago
Women have participated in political violence consistently over time. In more recent decades the suicide bomber role has become the predominant operational role for women to engage in. This is reflected in groups like the Liberation Tige...
·almost 4 years ago
Nigeria is the 16th least peaceful country in the world, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI). At 148 of 163 countries, the most populous black nation retained its position in the previous year--even though its s...
·almost 4 years ago
At least 30 people were killed, and dozens injured in a triple suicide attack in northeast Nigerian state of Borno, state emergency officials said on Monday, in the biggest mass killing this year by suicide bombers.“Yesterday around 8 pm...
·almost 4 years ago
The President, UNIC Foundation, a non-government organisation (NGO), Dr. Christopher Imumolen, has advised the federal government to provide tax waiver for start-ups to ensure survival of such forms of businesses.Also, the company has un...
·almost 4 years ago
Nigeria would be guided by national interest in taking any decision on the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday in Abuja.Receiving national council of the Man...
·almost 4 years ago
Lagos — The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) said the Islamic finance sector presents numerous opportunities for enhancing the economic growth of Nigeria.The CEO of NSE, Oscar Onyema, stated this at the IFN Nigeria Forum 2019 held in Lagos....
·almost 4 years ago
Moody's Investors Service, a global credit rating agency, has revealed why Nigeria's economy is somewhat trapped in a low growth path.The rating agency alarmed that even though there was a 1.1 per cent increase in growth in 2018 that rec...
·almost 4 years ago
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday announced policies and programmes to create 10 million jobs in the next five years. The initiative falls within President Muhammadu Buhari's resolve to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty...
·almost 4 years ago
Nigeria’s Otigba Computer Village is arguably the biggest information, communications technology (ICT) market in Africa. It started off as a one-man business on a street called “Otigba” in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State. Within a shor...
·almost 4 years ago
Brain drain is a major challenge facing the Nigerian health system, leading to a dramatic reduction in the number of doctors in the country. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Nigeria is one of the t...
·almost 4 years ago
Nigeria will sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) at an African Union summit in Niger’s capital Niamey this weekend, after holding out for over a year. The announcement made late on Tuesday brings the historic deal ...
·almost 4 years ago
The federal government must embrace structural reforms to leapfrog economic growth, writes Obinna Chima. Every nation desire rapid economic growth. Faster growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expands the overall size of an economy and ...
·almost 4 years ago
Career U.S. ambassadors are taking up key diplomatic assignments across Africa following confirmation by the Senate earlier this month. These include envoys to Nigeria, Egypt, Libya, Cote d'Ivoire and the African Union, as well as Malawi...
·almost 4 years ago
We all know Nigerians are proud of their unique accent. So technology giant Google has given Nigerian drivers an option to hear travel advice in a local voice when they use Google Maps. The new feature with the local accent is also avail...
·almost 4 years ago
55 days after his swearing-in for second term, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, sent a list of his 43-man ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation. The number is seven higher than the 36 he submitted in 201...
·almost 4 years ago
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday raised the growth forecast of Nigeria's economy for the 2019 financial year by 0.3 per cent to 2.3 per cent. It disclosed this in its July update on the World Economic Outlook with the them...
·almost 4 years ago
A short exhibit about the leading figures who contributed to the development of art in Nigeria during the last century.Ben EnwonwuBen Enwonwu (MBE, NNOM) is a first generation Nigerian painter and sculptor who, being the first Nigerian a...
·almost 4 years ago
While preparing for the summer body, you need all the inspiration to keep the bodygoals going. Here are some of Naija's best fitness influencer. #BodyGoals!
·almost 4 years ago
At least 65 people are dead following a suspected attack by Boko Haram on a funeral gathering in northeastern Nigeria, according to local officials. The attack occurred Saturday during a burial in the Nganzai district, near the Borno sta...
·almost 4 years ago
There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in a number of countries across the world including Brazil and India. Because WhatsApp is encrypted – and so offers u...
·almost 4 years ago
We plug breathtaking Instagram pages that share our values; changing the Africa narrative, shed light on Africa’s beauty & potential, promote black beauty, highlight black excellence and tell the stories of ALL THINGS AFRICA. This wee...
·almost 4 years ago
The Nigerian Senate has confirmed all of President Muhammadu Buhari's 43 ministerial nominees on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. President Buhari sent the list of nominees to the Senate last Tuesday, and screening commenced on Wednesday, July 24...
·almost 4 years ago
The giant of Africa is often skipped on travel bucket lists but Nigeria is a fascinating country and will probably be the most memorable country you visit. If you know these things, you are guaranteed to have a wonderful time!The energy ...
·almost 4 years ago
As diverse as its people are, so is Nigeria’s geographical location. With a landmass spanning over 923,768 square kilometres (356,669 square miles) the country is wide and varied. Within it are tropical rain forests, highlands, islands a...
·almost 4 years ago
The Nigerian government has banned a Shia group after a spate of deadly clashes at protests in the capital Abuja, and following a court decision allowing authorities to call it a "terrorist" organisation. The office of President Muhammad...
·almost 4 years ago
Chinua Achebe’s debut novel is the most widely read among modern African literature. It has been translated in over 50 languages and has been accessed on a global scale. It is a fictional precolonial account of Igbo life and reads as a b...
·almost 4 years ago
Ten Cameroonian separatists have been handed life sentences by a military court sitting in the capital, Yaounde. The convicts included the leader of the most known separatist group, the Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, Sisiku Ay...
·almost 4 years ago
Nnamdi Azikiwe is one of the foremost nationalists in the history of Nigerian politics and had a hand at mentoring Africa’s first post-colonial President, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah. After an accomplished academic passage at Harvard in the US...
·almost 4 years ago
Private military and security companies have been regular fixtures in conflicts across the globe. For Africa, these corporations became increasingly visible with their role in civil wars in Angola and Sierra Leone. More recently, reports...
·almost 4 years ago
A country’s greatest wealth is its people but, in a case, where the country cannot maintain or provide for its people the people then become its greatest burden. In trying to understand Nigeria’s population, how the Nigerian government p...
·almost 4 years ago
It took President Muhammadu Buhari 54 days after his second term began to send a list of ministerial nominees to the Nigerian Senate for screening. This is a better record than his first term, which began in May 2015. Then Nigerians had ...
·almost 4 years ago
The Minister of Science and Technology Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday said the Federal Government would deploy science, technology and innovation to actualize President Muhammadu Buhari's promise of freeing 100 million Nigerians from the po...
·almost 4 years ago
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the spectrum for the trial of 5G services in the country. The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Umar Danbatta, disclosed this at the opening of the maiden International T...
·almost 4 years ago
Amnesty International on Wednesday said torture of civilians and suspects by Nigerian security forces have persisted despite new legislation to curb such abuses.In a statement marking International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, A...
·almost 4 years ago
The appointment of Usman Alkali Baba as Nigeria’s acting Inspector General of Police on April 6, 2021 brought a kind of closure to calls for reform of the Nigerian security architecture. It was applauded in some quarters. The main dem...
·about 2 years ago
The favoured approach to understanding colonial rule, particularly in Africa, is through the prism of political governance – how the colonial authority was imposed through local or native authorities. In our paper on Nigeria’s coloni...
·over 2 years ago
Following weeks of nationwide protests against police brutality, led by young Nigerians who complain of being targeted by the police, Adejuwon Soyinka asked Oludayo Tade, a sociologist, to help us understand what it feels like being a yo...
·over 2 years ago
In Nigeria, a large number of players move from one club to another in the country’s top division of 20 clubs. Although exact figures are sketchy, there are many footballers who engage in this migration, covering large distances. Some...
·over 2 years ago
The Guardian has reported that the leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group that abducted hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria six years ago, has yet again claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in no...
·over 2 years ago
On Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. The signing of the agreement brought to an end several months of wait by stakeholders in the Nigerian economy. With a GDP of about $...
·almost 4 years ago
The popular Sherlaton Indian Restaurant remains a favorite among Indians and Indian food lovers alike. Their ambiance is not fancy, but their food makes up for their lack of decor. Their casual space is a perfect place to gather with fri...
·almost 4 years ago
Like most countries in West Africa, Nigeria’s coastal waters contain diverse species of fish, which contribute to the food and economic security of its people.Small-scale fishing operations contribute 80% of locally produced fish and su...
·almost 2 years ago
A wave of protests has spread through Nigeria as citizens call for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria police. This followed footage that went viral of the squad beating a man to death. Protesters too...
·over 2 years ago
Two days after Nigeria celebrated its sixtieth year of independence, a video of a young man brazenly killed by a member of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad or SARS caught the attention of netizens. The Twitter user who posted t...
·over 2 years ago
Protests erupted in Nigeria earlier this month against #EndSars a decentralized social movement against police brutality in Nigeria to date the protests are seen perpetuating and such they haves caught eyes globally. Social media users ...
·over 2 years ago
The Sahel region, a belt of largely semi-arid countries below the Sahara, continues to be confronted by jihadist insurgents with various affiliations. “Jihadist insurgents”, broadly defined, rely on religious rhetoric for political mo...
·over 1 year ago
As Nigeria marks its 61st anniversary of independence, its citizens are stuck in a general anomie of despondency. This is as a result of general insecurity in the country, rising unemployment and high-cost of living. It is also an age...
·over 1 year ago
Nigeria was structurally constructed to serve the objectives of the External Order. Nigeria was not designed to be an end in itself
·8 months ago
Traumatic bonding is a strong emotional attachment between an abused person and his or her abuser. It’s a coping mechanism which develops through repeated cycles of abuse and “respite from abuse”
·6 months ago
The Conversation Africa recently held its first policy dialogue session where seasoned academics in Nigeria and the country’s Minister of State, Health, Dr Adeleke Mamora, discussed the country’s handling of COVID-19 so far as well as it...
·almost 2 years ago
Results are beginning to trickle in for the Nigerian National Elections in what is looking like the tightest electoral race since 1999. With over 85 million people being eligible to cast their vote, many wait in anticipation for the fina...
·3 months ago
What does her career rise represent for Nigerian women? Actually this is a great achievement. Not only from the Nigerian woman’s perspective but the African woman’s perspective as well as women all over the world. Breaking this glass ...
·over 2 years ago
Of four Nigeria defenders, three were taller than our lankiest attacker, Lebogang Mothiba, and yet Bafana Bafana’s main attacking outlet in Wednesday’s AFCON quarterfinal clash was hoofing obscure long balls upfront, to very little succe...
·almost 4 years ago
Nigeria’s decision to suspend Twitter indefinitely could backfire for the government and cost the country economically in terms of new investments into its technology sector. The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4. The offic...
·almost 2 years ago