April 5, 2025
Patrick Mayoh
Innovations Viewpoints

African innovations for African problems

The web and media are abuzz with Ebola these days. A westerner gets infected and all media outlets provide wide coverage on all

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People

Growing GDP, poorer people: a paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty

According to official statistics obtained from the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics, and reported by the world bank in its 2013 “Nigeria Economic

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Viewpoints

Of “guns, germs and steel”: reflections on the challenge of Ebola and Boko Haram

In recent weeks it has become quite clear that Nigeria has succeeded in stemming the advance of the Ebola virus. The virus, recognised

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Viewpoints

Nigeria through the years: 54 years of what?

The political history of Nigeria can be divided into three- pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial phases, all of which have had manifestations that define

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Innovations Policy issues

Improving smallholder farmers’ productivity through innovations’ uptake in Nigeria: can cooperatives make a difference?

  Nigeria, with an estimated population of 175 million people, is the most populous country in Africa, and about 50% of the population

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Institutions Viewpoints

Africa: between endogenous and exogenous forces

Africa remains the zone of turmoil and the world’s poorest inhabited continent. It is a place blessed with every type of mineral resources,

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Viewpoints

Nigeria: nation-state or mere geographical expression? By Adebayo Justice Hassan

However unpleasant, we must be frankly truthful about who we are, our history and what future holds for us as a society. Perhaps,

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Institutions

Evolution of civic consciousness by Seun Kolade

I have deliberately refrained from the use of the phrase ‘political consciousness’ for two main reasons. One, because politics is associated, especially in

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Apologetics Publications

Predestination and free will

A fresh look at Christian beliefs on the Ultimate Sovereignty of God and Significance of Humans   Introduction One of big questions that

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Institutions People Policy issues

Is development political?

Today I had two persons in a group I belong raising concerns and making inquiries, on separate threads, about what should be our attitudes

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