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The Director-General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Prof. Abubakar Olanrewaju Sulaiman, yesterday challenged Nigerian youths to channel their frustrations with the nation’s democratic system into active political participation rather than disengagement, warning that democracy cannot be reformed by those who refuse to take part in it.

African policymakers dealing with the current oil shock would do well to recall the Chinese word for crisis, 危机 (wēijī), which has two characters: 危 (wēi), meaning “danger”, and 机 (jī), meaning “opportunity”. The current oil shock presents Africa with both. Import costs are rising, currencies are depreciating, fuel subsidies are consuming scarce fiscal space,…