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By LightRay! Education Desk
By LightRay! Education Desk
A LightRay! Editorial explainer on FAAC, and why every Nigerian should care.
. . . If the health center in your village is empty, no borehole and potholes everywhere, Mama Tega, the question starts at home, not Aso Rock. Papa Ngozi Ask your LGA Chairman and Councillors first. That’s where that money was sent.
At a Lagos lecture honoring Wole Soyinka, a professor dropped a hard truth: Nigeria’s journalism crisis isn’t in newsrooms. It starts in classrooms — and in a civic space quietly closing.
Oluwaseyi Elizabeth Jimoh reports for LightRay! Media
. . . Scholar says universities must evolve from research centers to “innovation engines” if Africa will industrialize.
OPED By Dr. Isaac Yaw Asiedu, Reamplified
OPED: Nigeria spends billions on security annually, yet Boko Haram, banditry, and kidnapping still define daily life for millions. Why? At a recent Association of Nigerian Authors event for retired Rtd. Gen. Lucky Irabor’s new book, Scars, the answer from military experts, academics, and students was clear: Nigeria does not lack capable officers. It lacks money, political will, and a civil-military contract that matches them.
In this opinion, journalist and political analyst Armsfree Ajanaku reports from the Abuja book reading and uses it as a lens on Nigeria’s macro risk. He argues that insecurity is now an economic problem: abandoned farms drive food inflation, disrupted supply chains raise logistics costs, and kidnapping risk chokes FDI. Drawing on testimony from Gen. Irabor and senior professors, Ajanaku makes the case that until Nigeria treats security as core infrastructure — with credible budgets, transparent funding, and real use of military expertise in governance — growth targets will remain fiction.
Timely, policy-focused, and grounded in on-the-ground reporting, this piece speaks directly to LightRay!’s readers tracking Africa’s risk, commodities, and governance.
LightRay! Literary Feature
A LightRay! Media News Feature | Abuja
At the April Reading and Writers’ Dialogue held Saturday in Mpape, the Vice Chancellor of UniAbuja declared writing a “fundamental human competency” as ANA Abuja announced a new literary prize in his honour. Teen poets, literary giants, and academics converged on Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village to confront a national question: Are Nigerian schools raising thinkers or just graduates?
A LightRay! Special Feature Op-Ed
An Opinion Piece by Danny Nsa