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Trading Degrees for Survival: Why Nigerian Youths Still Need Education in a Changing Economy 1001463520

Trading Degrees for Survival: Why Nigerian Youths Still Need Education in a Changing Economy

Oluwafunbi Bello June 12, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Bent over the exposed engine of a vehicle in a busy mechanic workshop in...

A Pay Rise or Poverty Trap? Why Nigeria’s ₦100,000 Minimum Wage Debate Exposes a Deeper Economic Crisis Nigerian workers commuting amid rising transport costs and inflation.

Nigerian workers commuting amid rising transport costs and inflation.

A Pay Rise or Poverty Trap? Why Nigeria’s ₦100,000 Minimum Wage Debate Exposes a Deeper Economic Crisis

Korede Abdullah June 10, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – For millions of Nigerian workers, payday no longer brings relief. Salaries that once covered...

Children’s Day in Nigeria: The Painful Reality Behind the Celebration Nigerian school children celebrating Children’s Day amid concerns over education and child welfare challenges.

Nigerian school children celebrating Children’s Day amid concerns over education and child welfare challenges.

Children’s Day in Nigeria: The Painful Reality Behind the Celebration

Mirian Gom May 27, 2026

(By Otamere Gladness, Oluwatobi Adu, and Oluwafunbi Bello) ABUJA, Nigeria – Every May 27, Nigeria celebrates Children’s...

Harvest of Hunger: Inside Nigeria’s Growing Malnutrition Crisis Health worker measuring child’s arm for malnutrition screening

Harvest of Hunger: Inside Nigeria’s Growing Malnutrition Crisis

Korede Abdullah April 13, 2026

In a country endowed with vast arable land and a reputation as one of Africa’s largest food...

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis? Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

Mirian Gom January 16, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – A child who is not in school is not just missing lessons — they...

Stolen Classrooms, Stolen Futures: How Educating Girls Could Rewrite Northern Nigeria’s Destiny Abandoned classroom in Zamfara State symbolising Nigeria’s school safety crisis.

Abandoned classroom in Zamfara State symbolising Nigeria’s school safety crisis.

Stolen Classrooms, Stolen Futures: How Educating Girls Could Rewrite Northern Nigeria’s Destiny

Hussaini Ibrahim December 26, 2025

KANO, Nigeria – On a quiet morning in Tsafe, Zamfara State, the silence inside a once-bustling secondary...

Soaring Medicine Costs Block Universal Health Coverage Worldwide – Report WHO and Bayer representatives reaffirming global health partnership on neglected diseases

WHO and Bayer representatives reaffirming global health partnership on neglected diseases

Soaring Medicine Costs Block Universal Health Coverage Worldwide – Report

Oluwatobi Adu December 6, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Exploding medicine prices are the biggest obstacle to universal health coverage, forcing nearly 1.6...

Media Leaders, Others Push Action to Protect Children Nationwide Media leaders speaking at World Children’s Day symposium in Lagos

Media Leaders, Others Push Action to Protect Children Nationwide

Mirian Gom November 25, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Journalists, policymakers, and development leaders converge in Lagos for the World Children’s Day Media...

Nigeria’s Poverty Fight Stalls as World Bank Slams Tiny Welfare Budget World Bank announces $750m loan for Nigeria’s health and digital growth

Nigeria’s Poverty Fight Stalls as World Bank Slams Tiny Welfare Budget

Oluwatobi Adu November 12, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s poverty reduction efforts remain “alarmingly weak” as the World Bank reveals that the...

Tinubu Throws 9m More Nigerians into Poverty Nigerians walking in a crowded market as inflation and poverty bite

Tinubu Throws 9m More Nigerians into Poverty

Mirian Gom October 17, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria- Fresh data suggest that President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms have pushed an additional nine million...

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Trading Degrees for Survival: Why Nigerian Youths Still Need Education in a Changing Economy

Children’s Day in Nigeria: The Painful Reality Behind the Celebration

Harvest of Hunger: Inside Nigeria’s Growing Malnutrition Crisis

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

Stolen Classrooms, Stolen Futures: How Educating Girls Could Rewrite Northern Nigeria’s Destiny

Soaring Medicine Costs Block Universal Health Coverage Worldwide – Report

Media Leaders, Others Push Action to Protect Children Nationwide

Tinubu Throws 9m More Nigerians into Poverty

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