Nigeria’s healthcare system faces significant challenges, including inadequate funding, poor infrastructure, and limited access to quality care. With the gradual withdrawal of donor support, particularly from the United ...

This policy brief emphasizes the urgent need to reinstate History as a core subject in Nigerian primary and secondary schools. The removal of History from the curriculum in 2009 has resulted in a significant knowledge gap ...

The Nigerian government has proposed to harmonise the salaries of civil servants as a measure to control the high costs of governance amidst the shrinking revenue base. While the harmonisation of salaries across MDAs is a ...

Fifty years after independence, Nigeria still confronts several basic problems of insecurity, underdevelopment, electoral malpractices, corruption and poverty, poor standard of education, infrastructure deficit, religious ...

How have variables of terrorism, politics and ethnicity complicated the increasingly devastating conflicts between farmers and herders in Nigeria? What short and long term policy suggestions can aid the management of ...

This brief provides insight into some of the discriminatory laws against women in Nigeria, and suggests steps that may be taken to address them. Some of the existing laws that discriminate against women are the 1999 ...

● The issue of Almajiri in the northern and Out-of-School Children (OOSC) in the southern parts of Nigeria (both sum up to 10.5 million) has become a national embarrassment. ● The almajiri or tsangaya system of education ...

There is no denying the fact that ritual killings in Nigeria pose a grave threat to the safety and security of citizens, instilling fear and anxiety within the populace. While precise data is limited due to under reporting, ...

The objective of the brief is to identify the causes of rising drug intake among youths in Nigeria. Rising cases of drug intake in Nigeria is alarming which has caused huge and unquantified damage to the society There ...

This Brief has brought to the fore the need for the government, both federal and state, to adequately cater for and appreciate security personnel in the country. This Brief suggests that: The three Bills (viz. 2020/HB.1047, ...

The delegates system in any democratic setting always helps to nurture good ethics and democratic values that produce credible leadership in the country. The practice however, in Nigeria, has not brought about the emergence ...

This paper examined the various stages in the budget process in Nigeria such as the budget preparation and submission, budget authorization, budget execution and budget evaluation/audit report; and highlighted the role ...

This paper examines the role of the Nigerian National Assembly in the economic diplomacy of external debt relief between 1999 and 2006. Using secondary data, the findings show that the National Assembly played a critical ...

Nigeria's political system is characterized by weak party identities and frequent defections due to a lack of ideological commitment. Unlike developed democracies where parties are defined by strong ideological principles, ...

Accurate and up-to-date demographic data is fundamental to effective governance, equitable resource allocation, and sustainable national development. However, Nigeria’s continued dependence on irregular and outdated ...

The Senate has launched an ad hoc committee to investigate Cameroon’s alleged illegal annexation of Nigeria’s mangrove islands in Efiat, Mbo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. This encroachment not only challenges ...

The Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF) is constitutionally mandated to audit Nigeria's public accounts and report findings to the National Assembly. Nonetheless, there are serious questions about the independence of ...

-To analyse the existing legal and institutional frameworks governing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Nigeria, identifying gaps and limitations that hinder effective climate resilience. -To advocate ...

Despite the efforts by the Nigeria government to tackle food insecurity towards ensuring that no Nigerian goes to bed hungry, food insecurity remains a major challenge in Nigeria, affecting economic growth, and sustainable ...