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From Connectivity to Classroom Impact: Integrating Digital Literacy in Nigeria’s Education System

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Vol. 3 No 2 13-19 January 2026 Executive Summary Nigeria’s education system faces a growing digital literacy paradox. National internet usage exceeded 103 million users (45.5% penetration) by early 2024, alongside 164.4 million active internet subscriptions, yet these macro indicators conceal deep school-level, geographic, and pedagogical deficits. Household connectivity has expanded; classroom readiness has not. […]

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Welfare First: Retaining Nigeria’s Health Workforce in an Era of Global Competition

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Executive Summary Nigeria is losing its health workforce at a pace that increasingly threatens system viability. Between 2021 and early 2024, more than 42,000 nurses emigrated, while thousands of Nigerian-trained doctors registered to practise abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom. Survey evidence suggests that outflows are likely to persist: nearly three-quarters of current medical and

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Strengthening Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria:  Citizen Engagement, Participatory Governance, and Institutional Trust

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Vol. 2, Issue 28 December 23-29, 2025 Executive Summary Nigeria’s democratic consolidation is constrained by weak citizen engagement and declining trust in formal channels, producing low electoral legitimacy, policy capture, and social unrest. Voter participation fell to a post-1999 low in the 2023 general elections (26.7 per cent turnout), undermining representation and the strength of

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Judicial Independence in Nigeria: Institutional Constraints, Reform Pathways, and Democratic Consequences

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Vol. 2, Issue 27 ● 16-22 December 2025 Executive Summary Nigeria’s judiciary is constitutionally independent but institutionally vulnerable. The central failure is not the absence of laws or funding, but the lack of enforceable constraints on executive discretion over judicial appointments, discipline, and the release of statutory funds. If this gap persists, judicial reform will remain

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Press Statement

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Athena Centre Hosts Webinar on Elite Defections, Warns of Risks to Nigeria’s Multiparty Democracy  Abuja, Nigeria – 12th December, 2025 The Athena Centre for Policy and Leadership on 12 November 2025 convened a high-level webinar titled “A Democracy at Risk: How Elite Defection is Tilting Nigeria’s Political Balance”, examining the growing phenomenon of political defections in Nigeria and its

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