Uchechukwu Ngwaba. On 9 December 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law Nigeria’s first ever Health Act...

  The Oil-to-Cash policy initiative by the Center for Global Development to help the lot of Africa’s poor presumes so. This speculative but highly plausible initiative may actually prove useful as a fiscal policy instrument that African governments may deploy to bridge the ever-growing income inequality in the continent; and better yet, help create the ever-useful middle class...

  The idea of a Caliphate within the territorial competence of a sovereign nation is a disturbing one, not least because it signals the existence of another supreme governing body within the state...

Alan Gelb and Mariana Dahan. The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The United Nations has recently released a report that synthesizes the full range of inputs received from various stakeholders...

[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513...

  Following years of its evil war on Nigeria and its immediate neighbors, events in the last few weeks indicate that there is a coordinated major military offensive by these countries that has resulted in retaking a string of border towns from Boko Haram...

  All governments face the same problem: how can they know whether the actions they take to benefit citizens are successful or are, instead, wasting valuable resources and slowing social and economic progress? Obtaining that knowledge is hard and often considered a quixotic ambition, particularly in the data-poor environments of many middle- and low-income countries...

  Mudiaga Erhueh. The aftermath of the terrorist attacks in France during the first week of 2015, in which seventeen people were killed introduced a new dimension to the fight against terrorism...

Jake Effoduh. The Niger Delta is one of the ten most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems in the world and is home to more than thirty-one million people...

Godwin Haruna. The African Union has officially launched the Kigali Action Plan, which translates into a 50-million euro agreement to bring drinking water, basic toilets and hygiene promotion to 10 million Africans in 10 countries...