Social Development
Social Development
While traditional metrics of development often use GDP and commerce as the gold standard for measuring a nation’s progress, they frequently overlook the invisible framework upon which society is built: Social Capital. This network of relations, shared values, and trust serves as a powerful counter-metric to traditional economic indices. Social capital provides the essential framework […]
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Photo: Lucas Andrade The growing social media fraud (SMF) among students in Nigeria presents a significant concern that questions the integrity of the system and the ethical standard of the younger generation. Notwithstanding the collective efforts by the government and educational institutions to check the dangers, the challenge continues to linger, pointing to a possible
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Photo by: Lucas Andrade. Violence within local communities can take various forms such as, verbal abuse, physical harm or cultural and sexual violence. Violence such as physical harm are predominant in many rural communities in some countries of West Africa. It is a behaviour or an act that uses force to inflict physical or psychological
Individual Crises As Symptoms of Systemic Failure. Read More »
The custom from earlier times which promotes the belief that one must “WORK HARD” for continued existence often leads to ignoring the rationale behind it. The human condition that focuses on “keeping the lights on” is exercised in the everyday life. When we are locked in the daily chase that prioritizes securing the immediate present
TRANSPARENCY AS A THREAT RATHER THAN A SERVICE Freedom of information is a legal provision that gives people “the right to know”. This provision is weakly implemented in highly corrupt countries. The oldest Freedom of Information Act is Sweden’s Freedom of the Press Act of 1766. However, Sweden maintains a prudent general data protection regulation
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To plan your school’s next PTA meeting, download a free template HERE. The origin of naming the parent-teacher association- PTA, seems to have evolved from a 19th century social movement on “motherhood” as a political force. Through the “National Congress of Mothers”, women like Alice Birney and Phoebe Hearst in Washington DC, drove the advocacy on
School-Family Alliance in the Digital Age: Redefining PTA. Read More »
Sometime ago, I was sitting quietly in a park in a country in southern Europe. It was holiday “Magdalena“. Three boys likely 9 -11 years old walked up to me and asked for permission to set up a high-intensity loud knockout fireworks at the park which was quiet at that moment. In one of the
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The “commercialization” of social problems is regarded as a form of social entrepreneurship whereby technological innovations are used to provide solutions to social problems such as healthcare, food security, educations and financial inclusion. Like many other countries, West Africa is experiencing the shift from traditional institutions to software and digital ‘institutions’ as a go-to-desk for
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2026 “SKILLS ON THE RISE” ARE DIGITAL SKILL! WHAT ABOUT IT? The way organizations work and hire workers, keeps changing over time and only those who meet the requirements will sign the contracts. Traditional careers are making ways for dominant “blue collar” roles which is built on AI, digital skills and hybrid models. This change
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THE IMBALANCETerrorism is one evidence of disturbances in the new world. The pursuit for governance and control, exercised through potential powers of large states, have put many by the side and others are trailing or opposing. Politics is a social means through which numerous interests may be reconciled, but one question is: whose interest supersedes
Nigeria: Power, Politics and Terrorism. Read More »