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Seme community, a border settlement between Nigeria and neighbouring Benin Republic is on the outskirts of Lagos State, just like Shaki in Oyo State, Idi Iroko in Ogun State, and Jibiya in Katsina State.

The National Situation Assessment Analysis estimates the number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the country to be 17.5 million. Majority of these children live in institutions - orphanages – and do not interact with the larger society.

The quest for the restoration of the Biafra republic has become almost a singsong for young people of Igbo extraction. Although it has created pains, claimed lives and property, and continues to impact negatively on the economy of the region, its proponents insist on the feasibility of the project.

hough some countries have cancelled death penalty as punishment for some highly criminal offences, Nigeria still retains it...

“I gave Chrisland School a healthy, vibrant young girl, what Chrisland returned to me is a dead child. My entire family is in deep sorrow but the school authority claimed they know nothing about my daughter’s death and all they know is that my daughter slumped and died.”

It started as a refuse disposal site. The Hausa Dan Bowlers, otherwise known as the commercial refuse cart pushers and scavengers, located the place and commenced the dumping of refuse there to fill it up.

Commercial sex has been an age-long vice plaguing the world, but it is assuming a dangerous dimension in Nigeria in recent times where over 1.4 million women are reportedly being deceived and trafficked yearly to different parts of the world where they end up becoming commercial sex workers, a status that is generally considered as highly immoral.

Injury, occupational diseases and compensation are a very significant issue in every employer-employee relationship. It ‘s a factor that should be held in high regard, especially by employers as they are usually at the receiving end of the stick when employees are injured in the workplace.

Again, flood disaster has caught Nigerians napping. From Anambra to Bayelsa, Rivers, Kogi, Delta, Imo, Kebbi and many other states, cries for help resonate from individuals and communities who have lost their loved ones, homes, properties, farmlands and other valuables to ravaging flood.

It is customary for countries across the world to borrow to finance development projects and important programmes, but experts regularly caution that this must not be taken to the extent that the burden of debt repayment puts a nation’s finances in jeopardy, leading to default.

Dr. Ayo Teriba, the Chief Executive Officer of Economic Associates, is the Coordinator of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Financial Sector and Capital Markets on National Development Plans MTNDP 2021-25, MTNDP 2026-30 and Nigeria Agenda 2050. 

Beatrice Barine still prepares meals with polluted fish her husband, a fisherman, gets from Nuumu-Goi River in Goi community, Gokana Local Council of Rivers State despite the report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which warned that water and crops in the area are highly polluted and harmful to the body.