A Programme Born From the Wounds of War To understand the National Youth Service Corps, you have to go back to where it began. The NYSC was established in 1973, just two years after the end of the Nigerian Civil War. The idea was both practical and idealistic: take young graduates from across the country, […]

What a Child Has Never Seen, They Cannot Dream of Becoming There is a version of education that happens inside classrooms — lessons written on blackboards, textbooks passed around, exams that test what has been memorised. That version of education matters. But there is another kind of education that no classroom can fully replicate: the

The Pandemic Nobody Planned For, Especially Not Rural Entrepreneurs When COVID-19 swept across the world in 2020, it did not discriminate by geography. But it did discriminate by economic standing. And at the very bottom of the economic ladder were rural entrepreneurs. Women, mostly. Running small businesses out of rural communities that the formal economy

Nigerian Students Are Being Taught That Farming Is a Career Worth Choosing Ask most Nigerian secondary school students what they want to be when they grow up, and you will hear the usual answers — doctor, lawyer, engineer, banker. Rarely will a young person confidently say farmer. Not that farming is not important, but because