The most important outcome of the Africa Forward 2026 Summit in Nairobi may not be the declaration itself, but the deeper strategic philosophy quietly emerging beneath it. Across energy, industrial policy, digital infrastructure, agriculture, climate negotiations, debt restructuring, and critical minerals, a new continental posture appears to be taking shape. It is not yet formal doctrine in the institutional sense. No treaty has codified it. No single African government articulates it in identical language. Yet, while implementation remains uneven across the continent, African states increasingly appear to be converging around a common strategic instinct: the belief that Africa must regain…
Author: Development Reporting
Death, which has a way of returning us to unfinished questions, does not only take away radical scholars; it reopens the texts they wrote, the questions they posed and the arguments they advanced, the ideological battles they fought, and the silences they refused to accept. With the passing of the radical historian, Professor Segun Osoba, Nigerian has lost one of its most exacting minds, who consistently insisted that history must speak in the language of justice. He was, for many of us, not simply a historian of Nigeria. He was part of the argument that Nigeria was still in formation,…
Nigeria is facing what health experts now describe as one of the gravest child nutrition crises in its modern history, as humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) revealed that the country recorded the highest number of malnutrition cases among the 77 countries where it operates.According to MSF’s latest humanitarian report, there is a growing scale of hunger and disease ravaging vulnerable communities, particularly across northern Nigeria, where conflict, inflation and displacement have combined to create a deadly humanitarian storm.The organisation said more than 440,000 malnourished children were treated in Nigeria in 2025 alone, as analysts told DevReporting that the figure…
The Nigeria office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has assured candidates, parents and other stakeholders that the ongoing 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates would not be disrupted despite the ongoing protest by some members of its workforce. The examination body gave the assurance in a statement issued on Wednesday by its acting Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina. Recall that Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions in WAEC offices nationwide on Wednesday commenced a three-day protest over allegations of management highhandedness, illegal recruitment, imposition of a pay policy, unilateral constitution…
The death of popular Nollywood actor Alexx Ekubo from metastatic kidney cancer has triggered nationwide conversations about a disease many Nigerians barely understand until it becomes fatal. To fans and colleagues, the actor appeared vibrant, youthful, and healthy. That reality has now become central to the public reaction surrounding his death. According to a statement by his family, the cancer had already become metastatic before his death, meaning it had spread from the kidneys to other organs. “After a brief but courageous battle, Alexx passed away at Evercare Hospital due to complications arising from advanced metastatic kidney cancer,” the statement…
Workers at the Nigeria National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) are set to stage a protest against the alleged management’s highhandedness, illegal recruitment, imposition of pay policy, and unilateral constitution of panels against its members, among other issues. This is coming less than 48 hours after the leadership of the examination body in the country declared its readiness to conduct a hitch-free 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) for a total of 1,959,636 candidates across 24,207 schools nationwide. The three-day protest, which is expected to begin on Wednesday (today) at the examination body’s headquarters in…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed concern over what it described as the distorted and slow implementation of its 2025 agreement with the Federal Government, warning that unresolved welfare issues and policy disagreements could trigger fresh industrial unrest in Nigerian universities. The union raised the concerns at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the Modibbo Adama University, Yola on 9 – 10 May. In a press conference addressed by its president, Christopher Piwuna, a doctor of medicine, ASUU criticised delays in implementing aspects of the agreement signed with the Federal Government in…
When European leaders scrambled to rethink energy security after the Russia-Ukraine war, one reality became impossible to ignore: the global order many nations assumed was stable is no longer stable at all. The disruption of Russian gas supplies exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s industrial backbone. Escalating tensions involving Iran and instability across key maritime and energy corridors have since deepened concerns around oil flows, shipping security and long-term supply resilience. Energy security, once treated largely as a technical or commercial issue, has returned to the center of geopolitical strategy. At the same time, another shift has been unfolding steadily. Africa,…
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds” – GEORGE ELLIOT Wole is a personable being any decent person would love to associate with. In terms of age difference and Yoruba protocol of code of ethics, I believe I am not qualified to write this synopsis about his intimidating credentials of life of service, sacrifice, perseverance and humanity in the past six decades. However, considering our ‘cult-like” bound from childhood to adolescent through adulthood to this stage of life, I can authoritatively state that I am not less qualified to express my thought on how his deeds…
A single-dose oral treatment for sleeping sickness is pushing Africa closer to eliminating one of its most persistent tropical diseases. After decades of complex and often dangerous therapies, a three-tablet, one-day cure could allow health workers to diagnose and treat patients in a single visit. Bonface Orucho, bird story agency Africa’s long battle against sleeping sickness may be approaching its final chapter as a new single-dose therapy gains international regulatory backing. The drug, acoziborole, received a positive scientific opinion on 27 February from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency, clearing the way for…