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Nigeria's endless lecturer strikes: insights from some essential reads

One thing that is synonymous with public universities in Nigeria is strikes. Since 1999, the public university system has lost about 57 cumulative months to industrial action. This always comes about as a result of under-funding. Lecturers’ unions have called for the revitalisation of the sector and wage increases.

The Conversation

Morocco, Nigeria agree on project to pipe gas to West Africa and Europe

Nigeria and Morocco sign a deal to build the world's longest offshore gas pipeline. When it’s completed in over 20 years’ time, it will connect 15 West African nations and eventually lead on to Europe's shores.

France 24

Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter – The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript

This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode: Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter, published on September 15, 2022.

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Concerns grow as Nigeria's inflation surges to 17-year high

Nigeria’s consumer inflation surged to 20.5% in August, its statistics agency said Thursday, signalling more hardship for citizens and businesses in Africa’s largest economy

The Independent UK

No longer at ease: Pastoralist attack survivors unsettled in Nigeria

Residents of southwest Nigeria are enduring trauma from the attacks, but also setting up vigilantes and buying arms.

Al Jazeera

Berlin museum approaches ethnological collection in new ways

A Berlin museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from around the world and the debate over demands for some of them to be returned to their homelands

The Independent UK

Five steps Nigeria must take to stop buildings collapsing in Lagos

Buildings in Lagos state, Nigeria’s economic hub, have in recent years been collapsing in greater numbers than ever. Between 2000 and 2021 the city experienced 167 reported cases, with significant human and economic losses.

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Why Nigerian kidnap law banning families from paying ransoms may do more harm than good

Kidnapping for ransom has become one of the most significant challenges facing Nigeria today, and the government is attempting to address this by punishing families who pay ransoms. But many believe this has little chance of tackling the problem.

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Saudi Crown Prince Receives Message from President of Nigeria

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, received on Wednesday a written message from Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. The message focused on the close bilateral ties that bind their countries and ways to bolster them in various fields. The message was received by Saudi…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Digital Cooperation Organization Adopts Riyadh AI Declaration

Member states of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) agreed Tuesday to adopt the Riyadh AI Call for Action Declaration (RAICA), which seeks to use AI technology to benefit people, communities, nations, and the world. The declaration, announced at Saudi Arabia’s Second Global AI Summit, was signed by all members of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Uju Anya on the Queen, Jeff Bezos and the family history behind her tweet

The professor sparked outrage when she wished the queen a painful death. She tells the Guardian about the UK’s role in the ‘slaughter’ her mother fled

The Guardian - US

Twenty bus passengers burn to death after horror crash in Nigeria

Only two badly burned people survived the accident at Lanlate in Ibarapa area of Oyo state

Evening Standard

Nigerian separatist leader challenges terrorism charges, court reserves ruling

Nigeria's Court of Appeal on Tuesday reserved judgment after separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu sought to have charges of terrorism and broadcasting falsehoods against him dropped, his lawyers said.

Reuters

How Nigerian students became 'change agents' in solid waste management

Nigerian cities aren’t managing solid waste effectively. Waste has to be managed all the way from generation to storage, collection, transport, recycling, treatment and disposal. But it is visible everywhere in the country’s cities, presenting a major socio-cultural and environmental challenge.

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Five aides killed after gunmen attack Nigerian senator's convoy

Gunmen in Nigeria killed five aides including security personnel during an attack on the convoy of a Nigerian senator in southeastern Anambra state on Sunday evening, the senator's spokesman said on Monday.

The Conversation

Ovarian condition that can cause missed menstrual periods and infertility is going undetected in Nigeria

Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common gynaecological endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age. It affects between 4% and 20% of women globally and is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Despite its prevalence, it remains a conundrum amongst clinicians and allied health professionals. The Conversation Africa’s Nigeria based…

France 24

'Colonialism wasn’t the Queen’s fault': our Observers react to Elizabeth II's death

As the world reacted to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, our Observers in Commonwealth countries that were once British colonies had mixed reactions. While many said the British monarch played little a role in their day-to-day thoughts in the 21st century, her death brought out feelings that endure decades…

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Napoli Striker Osimhen Out with Thigh Injury

Napoli striker Victor Osimhen will miss the Italian team's home fixture with Spezia on Saturday with a thigh injury, the Serie A club announced. In a statement, Napoli said that the Nigeria forward had hurt the femoral bicep in his right thigh, an injury suffered in the first half of…

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Al Jazeera

Niger Delta oil spills bring poverty, low crop yields to farmers

Industry insiders say six decades of oil exploration have made the Niger Delta one of the most polluted places on earth.

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The King's Horseman, Nigeria's most famous play, is now a Netflix movie: what makes it a classic

Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman is a new movie coming to Netflix. It is based on Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s Horseman, written in 1975 by Nobel Prize-winning author, activist and academic Wole Soyinka. Directed by the late Biyi Bandele, the film – in the Yoruba language…

The Guardian - UK

‘A sense of relief’: the Nigerian project helping babies to be born free of HIV

Lafiyan Yara is reducing transmission by training women to spot underlying issues and carry out tests

The Conversation

17 strikes in 23 years: a unionist explains why Nigeria’s university lecturers won’t back down

Lecturers at Nigeria’s public universities have been on strike 16 times since 1999. On 14 February 2022 they went back on strike to make it the 17th. Only 11 of Nigeria’s 59 state universities haven’t taken part in the current strike action. The Conversation Africa asked Dele Ashiru, a lecturer…

The Independent UK

Nigeria seizes donkey penises to be smuggled to Hong Kong

Nigerian officials say they have seized thousands of donkey penises that were about to be exported to Hong Kong

Reuters

Nigerian oil workers threaten to strike if govt doesn't stem theft

Members of a Nigerian oil workers' union are threatening to go on strike if the government does not do more to stem widespread oil theft they say is putting their safety at risk and has cut exports by hundreds of thousands of barrels.

The Conversation

WTO head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: how trade can help beat inequality

In a recent study South Africa was identified as ranking first of 164 countries in the World Bank’s global poverty database. Underlying this inequality is its very high rates of unemployment. Professor Dori Posel spoke to World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about why trade is important…

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