Islamic education does not need to choose between faith and knowledge of the wider world, and a school that keeps both open may produce the kind of curiosity that makes both stronger.
Why getting children into school is not enough to build the human capital Nigeria needs for economic transformation.
Government must be judged by whether people became safer, healthier, more capable, more productive, and more dignified.
What the country has needed, and what BRIDGE attempts to deliver, is a structured mechanism for converting financial capital into human, intellectual, and social capital.
Programmes like NELFUND can unlock that human capital, but only in a governance environment where corruption is costly and impunity impossible.
Reliable baseload power and a north-south freight rail spine must precede, not follow, any talk of mega parks or local content mandates. Technical colleges must receive the same prestige and funding as universities.
To address the AI rookie status, the federal and state governments must establish a national AI council, partner with international organisations and tech firms, and launch initiatives to educate and train the workforce in AI technologies.
Nigeria’s criminal justice system allowed these minors to languish in detention for three long months without verifying their ages or giving them a fair trial.
Nigeria’s education sector requires a cohesive, long-term strategy to ensure sustained improvement.
No template exists in the world where a country develops its human resources through private education.
It behoves the new administration to restructure the whole education system on a priority basis and align it with modern education techniques.
The primary strategic concern of our increasing demographic hemorrhage is the emigration of skilled Nigerian youth. The people on whom our future depends are leaving.
There are better ways to show solidarity with ASUU to achieve a better result than just protesting. NLC must liaise with ASUU and mediate between it and the government on this issue, considering the historical antecedents behind this crisis.
We must ringfence their benefits and emoluments in both federal and state budgets and never allow a situation where the government owe them salaries.
I sincerely hope that government will give Nigerians the Christmas gift of providing robust security during this festive season on our major highways.
There are no simple solutions to the myriad of problems facing Nigerian universities, but the key indeed lies away from establishing more universities, at least for now, until quality improves.
The main principles of SSI should not be discarded, and there should be a re-evaluation of its strong points, including its emphasis on the training of school staff to deal with emergencies and a focused extension of the initiative to cover all states under the threat of bandits.
The country cannot make progress with the current system whereby incessant ASUU strikes continues to damage the Nigerian educational sector and imperils the future of the Nigerian youth.