What is your take on this piece, please? Personally, I have interviewed and tested hundreds of people who have glowing CVs but many could not pass the knowledge tests or demonstrate competence in other ways. While Indian graduates may not speak good English, their universities...

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...are functioning better than Nigerian universities; their graduates are more skilled and able to compete globally against graduates from other countries. Tertiary institutions in Nigeria need to connect with industry immediately to upgrade.

Some time ago, when I first started heading a school in Kano, I had a mother cry in my office that since her divorce she hardly got to see her sons and that her ex-hubby, a busy businessman, had blocked her number. The sons' grades started dropping and the father came storming... ...into my office to demand to know why his sons were declining academically (and behaviourally). We had a long chat that day about parenting and how a child's life at home and inner world affects their capacity to focus, learn and build relationships. He said that fixing the...

"Nigeria has the largest egg harvesting operation in the world. Today, millions of Nigerians are exported in small test tubes from IVF clinics around Nigeria for money. The biotechnology companies who buy these eggs slaughter them in European and American laboratories for... ...embryonic stem cell research." Young women and girls in Nigeria, out of for cash, are repeatedly visiting fertility clinics through the back door to have their eggs harvested. Companies may collect more than 1.5m from rich clients, and pay the girls N100k-120k for each harvest

My recommendations for Kano:

- Do not fall into the ugly pattern of targeting people of other parties. Focus on the priorities.
- Review all development approvals and reconstruct a proper development plan for every LGA, with community spaces and conservation areas.
- Develop a… …masterplan for teacher and midwife training for all LGAs, and a full needs assessment for the health care and education sectors. Consider sustainable funding solutions and ways to reduce burnout of health care professionals.
- Develop biometric approaches to handling civil…

Over a decade ago, a girls’ scholarship scheme run by my NGO, with initially just a single donor from Kogi state, began placing high-performing girls from very underprivileged backgrounds into good private schools, then supplemented with extra lessons, mentoring, excursions and… …access to successful female icons. While there was some attrition, the girls generally thrived. Their parents and community were, of course, supported also. The project was long term. It supported the girls throughout secondary school, then university until the end of Masters..

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Claims that tribalist utterances made by an extremist follower represents the views of a candidate is cherry picking for political opportunism. Deliberately stoking tribal hatred, fear and generalisations is exactly what occurred prior to genocides that turned neighbour against.. …neighbour; something the people of those nations never believed could occur. The damage done from the rhetoric this election season in Lagos will take a long time to undo. For a supposedly progressive city, it took surprisingly very little time to regress.

The work ahead for Nigeria’s new leadership will be stupendously difficult. Here are some areas that must have immediate focus:

1. Healing the fault lines. The new administration must shun sectionalism and reach out to all Nigerians, of all ethnic groups and all classes… …Appointments should not be given as rewards for campaign investments or “loyalty” but consider those who have the most competence irrespective of region or party affiliation. Appointments should also be given to younger, dynamic professionals, women and people with disabilities

Good interview. The situation is disappointing even for observers. APC members on this app would do well to enjoy their wins but not continue to deny the problems of this election, stoke the fire of ethno-religious sentiments and even shamelessly praise actions of their ally,…

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…Emperor Wike. While it is a large country, it is also a small country when it comes to gossip. Know that some of your own insiders leak information that turn people against any good work you have done. I am, nonetheless, happy that the process has been less violent than…

The political class must understand that the class struggle overrides voters’ concerns even though they try to use religion and ethnicity to divide people. Foisting candidates who brandish their high life and a history of questionable financial dealings at a time of extreme… …hardship for the masses is demoralising. It leads to voter apathy or resistance. It drives them towards other candidates who seem to have more empathy and seem less inclined to just help themselves and their boys. Instead of fermenting more despicable identity politics, listen.

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*CONSEQUENCES OF EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS*
by Sh. Nuruddeen Lemu, Da‘wah Institute of Nigeria

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If we continue to defend and justify people who take the law into their own hands, because we feel so hurt by the words and actions of others (against Islam or our beloved Prophet - pbuh), and because we don't trust the justice system, we will find it very difficult to blame any violent ethnic or religious group in Nigeria who also take the law into their own hands because they too feel aggrieved by the words and actions of others…

For 10 years I lived in a bubble before I truly understood the real Nigeria and the daily struggles of the majority. I set up an entire NGO and was doing charity for those 10 years but still lived in ignorance and inability to truly empathise. There is nothing as educational as… ..first hand experience. The elite that rule have lived much of their lives in that bubble. Unless they get out of their comfort to live and hustle in the slums, to trek for ages in the mud before daylight to catch a crowded bus to work, to feel what it is like to be treated…

I grew up mainly in the Caribbean islands, outdoors in the sun. A neighbour and I taught ourselves how to swim at the age of 5 and the pool was our daily hangout as kids. Every weekend, my school friend’s father would pick us up and go to the marina where we would enter his… …speedboat and jet off in the glorious Caribbean Sea to a small unoccupied island where we could swim and sunbake and barbecue or picnic until it was late afternoon. I grew to be at one with the warm and turquoise waters and, to this day, it is the one thing that never fails…

Some time ago, I mentioned I would tell you about my work in housekeeping of this hotel. I also did a stint as a waitress at a busy club throughout the night… While I keep my lineage very private, I can say that I have had the privilege of travelling to 40-something countries as a child. The exposure was good for me though prevented me from being fixed upon a particular national or cultural identity. My father did not have a normal…

My dear late father, one of the most revered modern Maliki shaykhs in Nigeria, used to give examples of how a little religious knowledge in the wrong hands can be dangerous. People can create their own rulings through cherry picking and failure to apply sound methodology… …After being appointed by former President Jonathan to a panel to dialogue with captured BH fighters, he would often ask them why they carried out such heinous acts against people. Their retort was typically that the Qur’an enjoined them to obey those in authority above them…

One of our greatest challenges in the North is ignorance and general reluctance of our religious teachers to define and distinguish between conscientious objection, social defiance, advocacy, protest, political resistance to injustice, opposition, armed rebellion and sedition… …The conflation of these issues is often done by referring to bloodshed and strife created by rebel groups in Muslim history. There is also the dominant albeit minority approach of many regime-funded Saudi faqihs who view everything even in mu’amalat as haram unless precedent…

Alright Arewa, so we are crying and they are throwing it back in our faces, saying we have state governors and defence personnel, etc. etc.; that we should take our anger away from their precious Bubu. We know political selfishness is real but they are partly right in that… …our local and state leaders, as well as heads of agencies and reps and Senators are also not putting sufficient hands on deck to follow up on most initial firefighting. They are riding on the luxury of ‘inadequate resources’ so we “manage” being “on (y)our own” as usual…

The kinds of things we tolerate here are not normal and should never be normalised. How can a nurse bark at a woman in labour saying, “Is that how you were shouting when you were making this baby?” Countless abuses are heard in maternity and emergency wards. Recently, a woman… …who was full term was scanned and it was discovered that the baby was dead in utero. Instead of operating to take the baby out, the doctors did not inform her of the truth and said she should come back the next day. The next day, they said she needed to be induced…

Immediately after 9/11, the dragnet of the US was wide. Many Muslim charities and philanthropists were accused of being sponsors of terror, often due to classified evidence of some minor financial irregularity. As someone who has worked with charities since I was a teenager,… …I know many organisations and individuals who were accused and later cleared. Not long ago, a New Zealander friend of mine was accused of it in Maiduguri after her work to help orphan victims of terror, work which I and many others here supported…

Physical size doesn’t always matter.

Yesterday, I decided after a month of wishing for it that I would suspend my “things to do” and get a full body massage.

My masseuse was a burly woman with large, strong hands. I thought to myself, I had better not try my usual friendly… …banter and joking because if this one isn’t in a good mood she might strangle me or pop an artery and who would ever know the truth.

After a while of slathering warm water and cream for a scrub before the massage, I felt cold and had to speak up. The lady launched into a…