Science & Technology

Aya Care’s Sudden Fame

Victoria AuduApril 14, 2024

After going viral on social media, the women-led team at sanitary pad provider, Aya Care, found themselves at the centre of a renewed discussion about menstrual hygiene in Nigeria. What did this attention mean for their future growth?

April/May 2024Nigeria

The Menace of Skin-Bleaching in Nigeria

Foyin EjilolaFebruary 27, 2024

Cosmetic endeavours aimed at achieving lighter skin have led to the development of different skin-bleaching beauty methods that leave the body open to grave health repercussions.

February/March 2024NigeriaVol8-no1

How to Improve Almajiri Health And Why Almajirai May Know Best

Muzz MuhammadFebruary 13, 2024

Despite their prominence in the Nigerian imagination, almajirai and their experiences in health have been overlooked in research. Socially-grounded research models may offer some ways to address this.

February/March 2024Nigeria

Bullish Markets How Technology Can Revolutionize Nigeria’s Livestock Industry

Oluwole HammondMay 3, 2023

Technology can play an important role in transforming Nigeria's livestock industry by improving productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. By leveraging innovative solutions, the technical, socioeconomic, and security problems prevalent in the livestock sector in Nigeria can be addressed, boosting the overall productivity and competitiveness of the sector.

April/May 2023Nigeria

NAFDAC-Approved Nigeria Has Approved Oxford University’s Malaria Vaccine for Use

Hillary EssienApril 18, 2023

MC Oluomo, who rose from being a bus conductor to one of the most feared political henchmen in southwest Nigeria represents a crude brand of state-backed political instruments. As the leader of the NURTW, he has over the years allegedly been at the centre of political subjugation, playing an important, albeit terrible role in shaping the politics of Lagos State.

February/March 2023Nigeria

Roll Back Ghana Has Approved Oxford University’s Malaria Vaccine for Use

Hillary EssienApril 16, 2023

While Ghana makes up only two per cent of malaria-related deaths, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania and Niger account for just over half of all malaria deaths worldwide.

April/May 2023NewsNigeria

A New Image of Africa’s Future How African Futurism Can Help African Policymakers Solve Africa’s Toughest Challenges

Charles EbikemeApril 3, 2023

Across Africa and its diaspora, there is a rich database of culture already at play, by novelists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, with diversely imagined futures. These imaginings are now no longer restricted to the cultural space but are finding their way into the world of science, research and policymaking.

April/May 2023Nigeriavol7-no2

Computational Conscience Problematizing Freedoms in Artificial Intelligence

Aarshin KarandeMarch 30, 2023

Interests in controlling the hopes and fears about intelligent machines have shaped imagined possibilities and vice versa. Mutually co-constitutive hopes and fears have defined the imagining of AI; hopes for a longer life, free of work, and power over others is inseparable from fears like losing identity, becoming redundant, and that AI will turn against ‘us.’ These hopes reflect deep-rooted narratives of human aspirations meeting technological possibilities.

February/March 2023Nigeria

A New Outbreak Tanzania Has Recorded an Outbreak of the Marburg Virus

Hillary EssienMarch 26, 2023

Marburg virus disease begins with a high fever, severe headache and severe malaise. There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat it. However, treatments like rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids and treatment of specific symptoms improve survival rates.

February/March 2023NewsTanzania

Is Nigeria Sleepwalking? The Geopolitics of Nigeria's Energy Potential

Otobong IniekeMarch 8, 2023

Nigeria is positioned to reap great benefits from available resources in terms of sustained development and economic standing, with the developing trend of African countries trying to move up the production value chain. The question still lies in whether Nigerian leadership will seize such opportunities that may be fleeting.

February/March 2023Nigeria