“While climate change, poor urban planning, inadequate drainage infrastructure and weak waste management are among the factors contributing to the crisis, communities have also pointed to the growing volume of plastic bags, bottles and other plastic waste clogging drainage channels as a factor that worsens flooding.” – Onwuzurike
By Toyin Falola In the previous part of this reflective piece, I have been able to show that the crisis of democracy in Nigeria cannot be resolved
By Bola Ahmed Tinubu It is my pleasure to be here today to take part in this significant event, which precedes the start of the political campaign ahead of
By Toyin Falola The decision by the University of Jos to invite Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega as the keynote speaker for the 2026 edition of the Toyin Falola Annual
By Toyin Falola The Life We Borrowed from the Mirrors I pity the child who learns too early? that appearance is currency. I pity the young man. who
By Tanimu Yakubu An increasingly familiar claim in Nigeria is that widespread poverty, nearly three years into the reform programme, is itself proof that the reforms have failed. Poverty
The Nasarawa State Government has announced that the ongoing construction of the 2.6-kilometre Mararaba-Nyanya Flyover and adjoining road project is expected to be completed by December 2026. The Managing Director
A REVIEW OF TOYIN FALOLA’S RESTLESS PENDANT: ESSAYS ON LASISI OLAGUNJU AND HIS WORKS By Michael Ọládẹ̀jọ Afọláyan I start this review by borrowing the model of the nested
By Toyin Falola When Poverty Begins to Know Your Name Money no longer passes by my street. Maybe it heard that sorrow lives here. Maybe it saw
By Olayinka Oyegbile All the metrics for legacy news media are headed in the same direction: less revenue, far fewer reporters and editors, less profit to reinvest and less community
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