Forget Rodeo Drive, Fifth Avenue, or Regent Street—Balogun Market in Lagos truly is the shopping capital of the world. Its densely-packed, umbrella-shielded corrugated metal stalls is abuzz with trades and transactions. Hundreds more shops, wholesalers, and cramped workshops fill the honeycombed concrete buildings that ring the market. Balogun Market is in many ways a microcosm …
Nigeria Struggles With Security Sector Reform by Matthew T. Page
There is an urgent need to address widespread failings in Nigeria’s security services, but so far President Buhari has not tackled these challenges. Nigerian soldiers on patrol in February. Photo: Getty Images. Nigeria’s stubborn security challenges will be a thorn in the side of Muhammadu Buhari, who won a second term as Nigeria’s commander-in-chief in …
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Nigeria new ministers and their various portfolios
1. Festus Keyamo, SAN - Minister of Justice Attorney General 2. Geoffrey Onyeama - Minister of Foreign Affairs 3. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed - Minister of Finance 4. Mej. Gen. (RTD) Bashir S. Magashi - Minister of Defence 5. Adamu Adamu - Minister of Education 6. Sabo Nanono - Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment 7. …
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Proof of Customary law marriage
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Tread carefully when repatriating art to Africa by Mathilde Pavis and Andrea Wallace
Digitisation of cultural heritage must be a considered process to ensure legal clarity and avoid exploitation President Macron of France is considering proposals to digitise and repatriate African art in French museums in a move that could forever change the way we understand and access history and culture. It is morally the right thing to …

