Nigeria’s 100 million Internet users will begin to pay more for data services tomorrow as continuing economic slowdown slashes telecoms sector growth to an all-time low. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the government agency that regulates telecommunication services, last month … read more
Nigeria has the highest number of underage girls forced into early marriage with at least 49 percent of females married off before they turn 18, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF said in a statement late Tuesday … read more
With Nigeria’s parliament poised to extend a controversial law banning the “menace of street begging” throughout the country, campaigners are warning the policy has already resulted in the persecution of tens of thousands of disabled and mentally ill citizens. Street … read more
The Security sub-committee of the Oil Producers Trade Section, OPTS, of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has revealed that the activities of 32 militant groups in the Niger Delta region since the resurgence of militancy has robbed … read more
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates Dengue fever as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease affecting humans. However in Nigeria it is under-reported and often misdiagnosed. According to Dr Balarabe Adamu Isah of the Department of Community Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo … read more
On the teeming streets of Lagos, the Nigerian mega-city of 15 million people, the once omnipresent money-changers are going underground. They’ve become the latest target of authorities desperate to bolster the naira and crush a black market for foreign currency … read more
The incredible population figure that Nigeria’s colonial masters fed the world with more than five decades ago came into sharp focus again recently when the Director-General of the National Population Commission (NPC), Ghali Bello, announced that Nigeria’s population now is … read more
Imagine catching fish. You reel the fish in, bring it onto your boat and take it home where you also grow crops. Day after day, you are self-sufficient. You can keep feeding yourself and your family because of easily accessible … read more
Uber is an app-based transportation company where passengers book rides and prices are determined by distance (per time or kilometre). Uber, which is fast becoming a world order, to a large extent, defines the stage of globalisation the world is … read more
Amnesty International accused Nigerian security forces on Thursday of killing at least 150 peaceful advocates of Biafra’s secession from Africa’s most populous nation, but the military and police dismissed the allegations. An army spokesman said Amnesty’s statement, the latest in … read more