The 28th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) opens on Thursday, November 30, 2023, with a resounding call to accelerate collective climate action. The conference takes place in…
In commemoration of World Mental Health Day, the Life After Abuse Foundation (LAAF) has reached out to male individuals struggling with drug addiction at the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development Rehabilitation Centre in Magodo, Isheri. LAAF, a…
…New Report Reveals Disturbing Link Between Climate Crisis and Child Marriage In a grim revelation on the eve of International Day of the Girl, Save the Children has issued a startling report that predicts a 33 per cent surge in…
Kehinde Adegboyega, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Journalists Network Nigeria (HRJN) has announced a one-day Encryption workshop which would help to protect digital privacy among journalists and human right defenders. Adegboyega in a press release to announce the…
BudgIT, a foremost civic-tech organization leading the advocacy for accountability, transparency, and effective service delivery in Nigeria, has released its second-quarter evaluation report of the States Fiscal Transparency League, SFTL. The States Fiscal Transparency League aims to sustain the progress…
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) may have come and gone but the debates and the representations by the global leaders continue to shape the path to commitments and development. In his opening remark, the UN…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the 36 state governors in the country over “their failure to account for the spending of the N72 billion palliative collected from the Federal Government, including details of the…
By Lasisi Olagunju | Where witches contend and exchange punches, mere men do not stand by to watch. But part of the job of a journalist is to see and report; sometimes he runs commentaries on bouts – not minding…
The Lagos State Office for Disability Affairs (LASODA) has congratulated the State chapter of the Nigeria Association for the Blind (NAB) for putting the resources of the Lagos State government given to them to good use. The congratulatory message is…
Save the Children charity organization has issued an urgent plea for funds to address the diphtheria outbreak gripping Nigeria. In a statement released on Friday, the organization expressed deep concern about Nigeria’s alarmingly low vaccination rates, with only 42% of…
