To perpetuate males and preclude females from private and public sector governance comes at a huge cost to companies and the country. The 2023 policy thrust of national and subnational governments needs to veer off this male-chauvinistic trajectory.
It is ironic now that the countries Nigerians now troop into for refuge from the Naira are those that still bow to the British Crown.
In the last three decades, Nigerian artists achieved global recognition. These include artists like Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti, Made Kuti, Tiwa Savage, Tems, Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy, among others.
Conflict and crisis rank among the top threats to the education of girls and women in Nigeria, widening the gender gap in education locally and globally.
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While both predecessor and successor marked their 100 days out and in the number one office in Nigeria, highlighting what they considered their laudable achievements, it appears that none of them has met the true needs of Nigerians.
Yes, Jihadists are freer in Nigeria than in Benin, going by how long terrorists have thrived in Nigeria compared to Benin.
Gabon’s coup plotters rode on the wave of recent coups in Francophone Africa. But this is a twist of the whole anti-France narrative. According to the Medium’s Fidelis Ndeh-Che, Gabon’s coup was actually a pro-France coup.
Yet governments who fuel their national carriers to outer space, who fund pilgrimage to uncharted celestial lands go all the way for a reason.
A new wave of coups in Mali, Guinea, and recently, Burkina Faso, all francophone countries, has reawakened West Africa’s infamous nickname – “Africa’s coup belt”.
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It would be seen that this latest coup in the Niger Republic was influenced more by a combination of palace politics and ethnic factors than the widely-mouthed reasons.
Marriage can be too early such that it distorts a child’s process of full self-discovery and set them on a course of intergenerational poverty and integral pain.
Learning that Nigerians’ docility could be taken for granted, several of the DisCos announced a tariff hike which would take effect from July 1, 2023, citing a MYTO guideline and exigencies of the times as the basis for their judicial ruling.
You’ll notice that the more the number of biases against women, the fewer the proportion of people likely to show these prejudices.
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The country needs effective governance and regional cooperation to navigate through these turbulent times and emerge as a stable and prosperous nation once again.
Tinubu comes by more as a music critic than a performer. His musical taste unveils a man with a deeply reflective cultural core. Even when he dances, he listens more than he moves – his pulse and pauses, the emotive response to a griot’s lyrical invocations.
