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COVID-19 and the Shrinking Fiscal Space for Education in Nigeria
The immediate costs of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on education in Nigeria are evident. With school closures that have persisted for ten weeks, students – especially the most vulnerable, are missing…
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Ensuring learning continuity for every African child in the time of COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, over 250 million primary and secondary children are out of school in Africa. If schools only reopen when normalcy returns, which is estimated to be in 2021…
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The Special Education Needs Of Violence-Induced Out-Of-School Children In Nigeria
The rise of Boko Haram has plunged North Eastern Nigeria, and particularly Borno State, deeper into educational crisis. While rebuilding infrastructure is already underway, and is certainly a good step,…
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COVID-19: Risk-Control Measures Threaten To Deepen Nigeria’s Education Crisis
The past few weeks have ushered in a range of government-sanctioned and structure-shifting risk-control directives across Nigeria and the Globe, in an attempt to curtail the spread of the novel…
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The case for debt relief in Africa amid COVID-19
As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are putting in place significant fiscal policy measures to counteract the sudden stop in economic activities. These spending plans aim to…
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COVID 19 and the Informal Sector in Nigeria: The Socio-Economic Cost Implications
As the world is currently being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, nations are grappling with how to contain the spread and limit its effect with their borders. Nigeria, Africa’s most…
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Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Nigerian economy
With 1.39 million coronavirus cases and 79,382 deaths globally, the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the outbreak, the outlook for the world economy—and especially developing countries like Nigeria—was fragile,…
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COVID-19 in Nigeria – Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as Vulnerable Populations at Risk
Here is what we know – COVID-19 has no known cure (at the time of writing this article). We also realize that given the dearth of medical infrastructure in Nigeria,…
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Addressing the Challenges of Urbanization in Africa
Africa is the world’s least urbanized continent, and yet the rate at which its cities are expanding is growing faster than no other worldwide – at an average of 3.5…
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Building the Resilience of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria
Internal displacement has become an unlikely source of rapid urbanization. Specifically, as people affected by violent conflict in rural areas flee to seek refuge, they are finding cities to be…
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Poverty Alleviation via Education in Nigeria: Lessons from China
In Nigeria, approximately 50% of the estimated 193 million population live in poverty. In 2018, the World Poverty clock estimates that Nigeria has the highest number of people living in…
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Electric cars and the future of Nigeria’s oil economy
The Future Policy makers of about 13 countries including China (the largest car market in the world) and Japan (the third largest car market in the world) are pushing for…
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UNCTAD, CSEA partner to advance African economic research
West Africa’s economy is booming compared to its sub-Saharan counterparts. This bodes well for the region, which can leverage improved output, trade growth and the recovery of international oil and…
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Helping SDG implementation through communications: lessons from Nigeria and Peru
Southern Voice’s State of the SDG’s Initiative (SVSS) provided a unique platform for six selected teams from the Global South to explore global factors affecting the implementation of the 2030…
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CSEA becomes an UNCTAD Regional Center of Excellence
On 29 October 2019, UNCTAD held its annual Centers of Excellence strategic meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. CSEA has been selected as a UNCTAD Regional Center of Excellence (CoE). The CoE’s…
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The 2020 National Budget: right cycle is great, but implementation is better
The reasons for underperformance of budgets are beyond wrong cycle or under-collection of oil revenue. But rather the biggest issues lie in over-ambitious projections, under-performing non-oil revenue and unspent funds…
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