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Africa is not poor. It is being drained, By Steve Aborisade

Nigeria, June 12 -- Approximately 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt repayments than on health or education. In Africa, two in every three countries pay more in debt interest... Read More


From resource jinx to renewable rising: The choice Nigeria must make, By Terseer Ugbor

Nigeria, June 12 -- In 1956, the year Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser shook the global order by nationalising the Suez Canal, and Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan tasted the exhilarating air of independence, so... Read More


Borno's Askira-Uba school children: The abduction Nigeria chose to ignore, By Zainab Suleiman Okino

Nigeria, June 11 -- In a conversation on the now-ubiquitous insecurity involving the abduction of schoolchildren, I asked an acquaintance what she knew about the abduction of 42 pupils from Primary an... Read More


The imperative of communicating national security gains, By Crispin Oduobuk

Nigeria, June 10 -- A troubling imbalance has settled into Nigeria's conversation around insecurity. Every attack trends almost instantly. Every setback multiplies across social media before the smok... Read More


The war against drug abuse must start from our schools, By Abdulhameed Yushau

Nigeria, June 9 -- The growing menace of drug abuse among young Nigerians has become one of the most disturbing social challenges confronting our nation. Recent reports indicating that more than half ... Read More