Why Malnutrition Persists in Northern Nigeria: Strengthening Nutrition Governance, Financing and Primary Healthcare
EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT Core Diagnosis Northern Nigeria’s persistent burden of child malnutrition is not simply a food scarcity or public health problem. It is a governance failure rooted in weak implementation […]
Nigeria’s Education Capacity Challenge: Why expanding access without strengthening system capacity threatens the country’s human capital ambitions
Executive Snapshot Core Diagnosis Nigeria has expanded access to education, with more than 40.1 million learners enrolled in public basic and secondary education. However, enrolment growth has outpaced the expansion […]
Closing Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare Financing Gap: Addressing Counterpart Funding Fragmentation under the Basic Health Care Provision Fund
Core Diagnosis Disbursement alone is no longer the primary constraint on Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) performance. Federal financing remains essential, but the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) has scaled […]
Athena Centre Launches Alhaji Gidado Idris Institute of Governance and Public Policy
Centre names three institute directors and a new Head of the Athena Election Observatory as part of a broader leadership expansion The Athena Centre for Policy and Leadership has launched […]
Beyond Funding: Governance Fragmentation and Institutional Performance in Nigeria’s Public University System
Executive Snapshot Core Diagnosis Nigeria’s public university crisis is fundamentally a problem of fragmented governance, not funding scarcity alone. Authority is dispersed across the Federal Ministry of Education, NUC, governing […]
Nigeria’s Rising Public Debt: Beyond Borrowing to a State Capacity Crisis
Executive Snapshot Core Diagnosis Nigeria’s sharp increase in public debt between 2023 and 2026 reflects more than macroeconomic shocks or revenue weakness. It reveals a deeper and more persistent constraint: […]
Beyond Transparency: Building Results Accountability in Nigeria’s Public Finance System
Executive Snapshot Core Diagnosis Nigeria suffers from a results gap, a persistent disconnect between rising public expenditure and actual improvements in citizen welfare. The problem is institutional rather than fiscal. […]
The Legitimacy Paradox: Why Electoral Modernisation Has Not Restored Democratic Confidence
Executive Snapshot Core Diagnosis Nigeria’s electoral crisis is no longer primarily procedural but institutional. The country’s democratic challenge has shifted from fraud detection to legitimacy management: technology has made irregularities […]
Fragmentation at the Frontier: Why Nigeria’s Borders Lack a Governing Authority
Executive Snapshot A – Core Diagnosis Nigeria’s borders are failing not because of an absence of state presence, but because of institutional fragmentation: authority is dispersed across multiple agencies, with […]
Local Authority, Community Governance, and Nigeria’s Development Gap
Nigeria’s persistent difficulty in translating national development plans into tangible improvements in everyday living conditions is increasingly traceable to weaknesses at the sub-national level, particularly within local government systems and […]