Nutrition Funding Should Reward Delivery Without Punishing the Child, Athena Policy Webinar Finds
Nigeria can measure child malnutrition. What it lacks are consequences that make weak implementation matter. An Athena Policy Webinar on Wednesday, 14 October, with officials from the Office of the […]
Nigeria’s TVET System: Aligning Skills, Industry and Employment
Executive Snapshot Core diagnosis Nigeria’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system remains structurally disconnected from the labour market it is meant to serve. The central problem is not […]
The Missing Link in Nigeria’s Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy: Enforcement at the Point of Sale
Executive Snapshot Core Diagnosis Nigeria’s first Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) action plan completed only 44% of its priority activities before expiring; its successor, NAP 2.0, corrected important weaknesses in costing and […]
NELFUND’s Tuition Refund Crisis: Closing the Accountability Gap in Student Finance
Executive Snapshot Core Diagnosis The NELFUND tuition refund controversy is not an administrative backlog; it is a structural governance failure. Public funds disbursed for student welfare become trapped at the […]
ABIA AT 35: CHIDOKA CHALLENGES ABIA TO TURN OTTI’S GOVERNANCE GAINS INTO ENDURING INSTITUTIONS
Governor Otti says ideas he wrote in 2014 continue to shape his work as Governor.
SOMEBODY MUST REMEMBER THE SCISSORS: CHIDOKA TO DELIVER ABIA @35 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Athena Centre Chancellor and former Aviation Minister to address state capacity and execution in Umuahia on Thursday, 27 August.
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 […]