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Stemming Youth Migration to Grow Nigeria’s Next-Generation Expertise
Nigeria has witnessed massive migration of its youths in recent years. This has created loopholes in the country’s social hierarchy. The exodus is captured in a slang known as japa in Yoruba, a language spoken in the southwest part of…
Nigeria’s rebranding strategy to sustain investors’ confidence
Nigeria is adopting various measures to restore the confidence of the international community with the speedy implementation of the eight-point agenda of the new leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Nigerian President adopted…
Digital Public Infrastructure: Blueprint to a Sustainable Digital Economy
Since the beginning of the 21st Century, when the world was awakened by the millennium bug, the race between nations for the lead in the digital revolution has been an unrelenting one. Historically, the nation with the fastest and most…
Prioritizing Access to Clean Water in Nigeria
Water is life. This age-long saying emphasizes the importance of water to living things. As the largest natural resource on earth, water is central to the life of all living things. Without water animals and plants will not survive in any…
Molding The Character of Nigerian Youths as Impetus For Development
Youths determine the stability of the present, the prosperity of the future, and the greatness or otherwise of any society. Hence, no serious nation or community jokes with its youths, because they are simply the future. Nigeria is…
Harnessing Nigeria’s Tourism, Culture, and Creative Industries for Economic Growth
In 2022, Nigeria hosted the world at the first United Nations World Tourism Organization, (UNWTO) Global Conference on Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industry. The event at the National Theatre in Lagos marked the first time the country…
Curbing Brain Drain in Nigeria’s Health Sector
The migration of healthcare professionals from developing countries like Nigeria to more developed countries is one of the most discussed issues today. The consequences of this development particularly in Nigeria have become of immense…
Leveraging Public-Private Partnership to Tackle Housing Deficit In Nigeria
With her current rate of population growth and urbanization, Nigeria faces a significant housing challenge. According to the World Bank, Nigeria's urban population is expected to grow by an average of 6.4% annually, leading to a projected…
Bridging Nigeria’s Productivity Gap for Economic Growth and Sustainability
The National Population Commission (NPC) puts Nigeria's population growth rate at 3.2 percent per annum in 2023, while the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rate stood at 2.3 percent in the first quarter of the year. This figure implies that…
Blue Economy: Innovation For Nigeria’s Prosperity
Among the ministers inaugurated by Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu in August 2023, were those for the newly created ministries; one of them, the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy.
A former Governor of Osun State in southwest Nigeria,…