NYSC* ends and the Nigerian graduate is faced with a quiet dread: how do I get a job now? How do I survive if I don't get a job soon? Living for months on end without a job is a fate many young...
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In junior secondary school, one of my teachers used the following example to illustrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy: potential energy is the energy a ball possesses when...
Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen is the second of the three debut novels on this year’s Man Booker longlist, alongside The Chimes and Did You Ever Have a Family. In very different ways to The...
“Nigeria is a child. Gifted, enormously talented, prodigiously endowed and incredibly wayward,” - these are the words of Chinua Achebe, in his newly published The Education of A...
On paper, the goal might seem admirable enough: promote the destigmatization of HIV-positive individuals while preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. A government-sponsored agency in Bauchi, Nigeria has...