From time immemorial, Gender-based violence (GBV) has been a public health challenge and a barrier to civic, social, political as well as monetary participation. It undermines not only the safety, dignity, overall health status, and human rights of the hundreds of thousands of those who skilled it, but also the public fitness, and economic stability. …
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“Young people should be in the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be agents of development and peace. If, however, they are left on society’s margins, all of us will be impoverished”- Kofi Annan. Youth refers to a time in the life of any individual between adolescence and adulthood. According to …
THE QUEST FOR YOUTH INCLUSION IN POLITICS: TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS. Read More »
The growing trend of cross-border trading on commodities and services, no doubt, posits significant benefits to individual economies in the world. It has improved the level of direct investment, flow of international capital and technological advancement. In addition, it has increased competition and spread wealth more uniformly. However, experts have argued that economic globalization is …
Agriculture, from the inception of time is profoundly linked with sustainability issues as a vital development in the rise of sedentary anthropological civilization. It is a science and practice involving cultivation of crops and rearing of livestock. It has recorded successes in meeting the growing demands of the world’s population in the last half century …
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Africa, the people’s homeland of pride and religion is endowed with various sources of renewable energy which are yet to be explored to its maximum. The continents’ renewable energy geography cuts across North, South and Sub-Saharan Africa, with North and South Africa being energy efficient and leading the renewable energy revolution in the continent while …
As I sat in the bus heading from Oshodi to Obalende, the passengers sitting behind me started a conversation on the numerous challenges bedeviling our country. Out of boredom, I listened to their many litanies of the nation’s challenges which were centered on transparency in Governance. Nigeria was influenced by the transformative global democratization of …
Charity begins at home; a common maxim goes. Hence, x-raying the current state of accessibility to the right information and quality education should need-be begin from the Nigerian reality, and by extension the realities in the African society. It is needless to state that this age has largely been information-driven with the landscape punctuated by …
I once read somewhere that Nigeria is home to the highest number of out-of-school children in the world. Initially, I was indifferent to the report until recently that I confirmed the figure with the National Bureau of Statistics, then, it struck me, so hard that some memories flashed vividly before me; ranging from the many …
With the advent of technology advancing everyday, information can be accessed anytime and anywhere in the world. Information is opened to all asundry; not limited to a particular number of people. The advent of technology has made it possible to get a first hand and highly classified information. Unlimited access to information is guaranteed. Information is the knowledge …
