Advocacy Series Nigeria produces hundreds of thousands of university graduates every year. It is one of the most educated youth populations on the African continent. It is also one of the most underemployed. That contradiction, a country rich in educated people and poor in opportunities for them, is not an accident. It is the predictable…
Advocacy Series There is a number that should embarrass every Nigerian who has ever held public office. In the 2023 general elections, out of 93.47 million registered voters, only 24.9 million cast their ballots. That is a voter turnout of 26.7 percent. The lowest Nigeria has recorded since returning to civilian rule in 1999. It…
Advocacy Series As part of our commitment to Service to Humanity, ST Tamandu Marine Patrol recently visited a correctional facility in Lagos to donate and spend time with people that society has largely chosen to forget. We went in with supplies. We left with a conversation we cannot stop thinking about. It was an officer…
By Our Correspondent Most organisations that speak about service to humanity do so with their eyes fixed on the visible parts of society: schools, streets, hospitals, and markets. The people in those places can be photographed, quoted, and thanked. They are present in the public record. The inmates of Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison are not….
By Our Correspondent The banner said it plainly. Some call it charity. We call it humanity. For the members of ST Tamandu Marine Patrol who arrived at Compassionate Orphanage Home in Lagos carrying bags of rice, noodles, toiletries, bottled water, and assorted provisions, it was not a slogan. It was a statement of intent. The…
By Our Correspondent On a single day last week, eighteen members of ST Tamandu Marine Patrol, the Lagos chapter of De Norsemen Kclub International, visited two public primary schools in Lagos carrying 5,000 exercise books for distribution to students. The first stop was Erinoso Primary School in Ikate, Surulere. The second was the Muslim Community…
By Our Correspondent Every day, in the heat and noise of Lagos traffic, men and women in yellow uniforms stand their ground. They manage gridlock at some of the most congested junctions in Africa’s largest city. They direct, they enforce, and they absorb the frustration of millions of commuters without acknowledgement and, too often, without…
By Our Correspondent Fagba Junction, at the intersection of Iju-Ishaga Road, is one of those Lagos chokepoints that commuters know by feel before they know it by name. The junction feeds traffic from multiple directions into a space that was not designed for the volume it now carries daily. In the mornings and evenings, it…