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Nigeria’s reliance on imported medicines is the outcome of a policy vacuum that has entrenched interests in commercially attractive, low-risk imports.
There are four practical policy shifts that the Nigerian government could take to improve the use of maternity services.
When conflict leads to abandoned fields, lost livestock, or altered investment decisions, it undermines food security and development.
New biometric and AI border systems in west Africa promise better security but may also undermine privacy, increase discrimination and limit free movement.
The film insists that young Africans are not just passive recipients of imported technologies. They’re also active creators.
The deployment of US soldiers in Nigeria could have negative consequences.
Although the theatre of the war is far away from Nigeria geographically, the impact is being felt in the country.
The universal fear is the effect the rise in prices is having on fuel, a staple commodity in every one of the countries for ordinary people as well as industries.
Preventing unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV is a critical strategy for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
Cassava could thrive across more of Africa as the climate warms, but a deadly disease carried by whiteflies may spread faster, threatening the nutritious crop.
Legal frameworks that only regulate formal psychiatric facilities are written for a system the majority will not use.
Intra-African trafficking, particularly through digital deception and aspirational manipulation, remains largely invisible.
Some Afrobeats songs use moral language that softens and normalises cybercrime.
African countries must not sign away their health data or release their pathogens in exchange for donor funding.
Strong institutions ensure that foreign investment supports sustainable growth rather than environmental decay.
Crypto works in Nigeria because of very human networks of trust.
Millions of people in west Africa and the Sahel region face starvation.
Oluwole faced a double challenge: a woman in philosophy and an African, confronting both sexism and Eurocentric bias.
Structural barriers such as inaccessible infrastructure and lack of transport options affect South Africa’s reputation as a disability-friendly country.
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