Social analysts note that some dissenting voices greeted the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to remove part of the subsidy paid on petrol and pool the accruing funds to finance the country’s social and infrastructural development.

How Nigeria Is Investing In People – More than half of Nigeria’s 177 million citizens are under the age of 25. Africa’s most populous country is making essential investments in education, healthcare and social services to ensure that Nigeria’s youth have the skills, resources and opportunities necessary to accelerate Nigeria’s ascent as a global economic power.

Boko Haram violence keeping a million children out of school, says Unicef – The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, according to the UN children’s agency, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.

Women worldwide pursuing careers in science are only 28%, and just 30% of professionals in the sciences in Sub-Saharan Africa are women.

40% don’t access education in a language they understand- A new paper by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) reports that 40% of the global population does not access education in a language they understand. The policy paper, ‘If you don’t understand, how can you learn?’ released for International Mother Language Day (21 February), argues that being taught in a language other than their own can negatively impact children’s learning, especially for those living in poverty.

The Ado about Development Results – I had my first experience of international development as an undergraduate member of AIESEC, the world largest international exchange organization run by student and recent graduates which specialized in International economics and development. AIESEC runs like a mini United Nations, giving its members the opportunity to work on community issues with a global perspective. I joined AIESEC in 1993 and became a member of my University local Executive Committee in 1995. From then till the end of my active work with the Organization in 2003, I held leadership and coordinating positions in three countries (Nigeria, Gabon and France) while I continue to do other development works alongside studies. In many of the assignments I undertook, one thing was common – a continuous attempt to introduce innovation in order to improve the impacts of the actions of a team.

Ghana Students Talk STEM With GE – Making STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – exciting and engaging for learners is a challenge faced by teachers around the world. One of the problems is that students often don’t understand the career opportunities that STEM skills offer, and thus lack motivation.

A woefully low proportion of members of the world’s learned bodies and science academies are women.

Shifts in the education landscape are opening doors for investment.

The 2017 Africa regional report on Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) assesses the continent’s performance in domesticating and implementing the two development frameworks since their adoption in