We consider the Federal Ministry of Education’s recent decisions on reuse of textbooks and a cap on the number of approved textbooks per subject in pre-tertiary schools a timely and commendable intervention in Nigeria’s struggling education sector. Under the new guidelines, government has prohibited the use of disposable workbooks, ensuring that textbooks can be re-used […]

The Chairman of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Engr. Bege Joseph Gaiya, has accepted a retraction and public apology issued over an earlier claim concerning Christmas-related funds.

Tambuwal argued that while Nigerians turn out to vote, the final outcome of elections is often distorted during collation.

“A bridge is repaired only someone falls into the water”. African proverb. A huge quantity of our political values, fortunes and assets are critically endangered. This does not mean they are irretrievably lost. It means they are on margins that require  major efforts to retrieve them, or considerable incompetence or indifference to lose them. Human […]

By Chioma Obinna Three prominent civil society organisations, the Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection, CEE-HOPE, Nigeria, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA have condemned the Lagos State Government over what they described as brutal and unconstitutional demolitions at the Makoko waterfront, which have allegedly […]