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AI is already entering Nigerian schools. The real challenge is defining what students should learn: not one fashionable tool, but durable skills in verification, ethics, privacy, creat…
Nigeria wants one million export-linked jobs and 10 million globally certified workers by 2030. Turning that ambition into an industry will require more than training: global standards…
Nigeria has commercially launched a $300 million distributed renewable-energy fund. Here is how the financing model could expand mini-grids, solar systems and productive electricity fo…
Dozens of delegates walked out as Benjamin Netanyahu began his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. He responded by calling those leaving “moral cowards” be…
Nigeria’s education debate often produces long lists of problems. This FridayPosts 50 reframes the conversation around 50 measurable interventions spanning early childhood, foundationa…
Olu Jacobs’ five-decade career stretched from British theatre and television to Nigerian film, training and institution-building. His death invites a larger question: what did his gene…
What should Nigeria sell more of across Africa beyond crude oil and refined fuels? This FridayPosts ranking uses production capability, regional demand, value-addition potential, logis…
Nigeria’s universities contain thousands of young athletes, but campus sport is rarely organised as a complete talent-development system. What would it take to connect university compe…
Nigeria’s football governance debate has drawn FIFA and CAF attention. Instead of focusing only on personalities, this explainer sets out the institutional functions a modern football…
Nigeria’s federal, state and local governments shared ₦2.338 trillion at the September 2026 FAAC meeting. What does that number mean, where does the money come from, and which tier of…
Reliable electricity is clinical infrastructure. Nigeria’s health facilities increasingly use solar systems, but the difficult question is how to finance installation, maintenance and…
Nigerian entrepreneurs continue to win international recognition, but awards are only the beginning. What must change for more Nigerian startups to move from promising prototypes and l…
Many Nigerians seek care first from pharmacies and medicine vendors rather than hospitals. Could community-based providers safely expand access to primary healthcare, and what safeguar…
The 6-3-3-4 education model promised practical and vocational preparation alongside academic education. More than four decades later, Nigeria still debates skills gaps and graduate emp…
Nigeria’s automotive policy is pushing assemblers from SKD towards CKD production and higher local content. But assembling imported kits is not the same as manufacturing a vehicle. Wha…
Nigeria plans a National Youth Confab in October 2026 with delegates from all 360 federal constituencies. The institutional test is whether the consultation produces traceable policy d…
Thirty-seven people arrested over alleged illegal mining died while in NSCDC custody in Niger State. Officials initially referred to a possible disease outbreak, while a survivor descr…
Nigeria’s exports to African countries reached about ₦10.72 trillion in the first half of 2026. Yet oil and gas products account for most of the value, raising a harder question: is Ni…