STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE NIGERIA, NETHERLANDS PLEDGE STRONGER PARTNERSHIPS ON TRADE, INVESTMENTS, SECURITY President Muhammadu Buhari and Prime Minister Mark Rutte met on Tuesday in Abuja to discuss bilateral relations and agreed that Nigeria and the Netherlands would continue to…
At least 1.534 trillion naira has been received by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) since its inception in 2001. This amount was allocated to the NDDC for expenditures on projects to reverse the huge infrastructural deficit in the nine…
The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) has identified the top 10 finalists for its grand finale event taking place in Accra, Ghana on 16 November 2019. The finalists were chosen from nearly 10,000 applicants from 50 African countries. After months…
By Mayowa Adeniran | Nigeria has been listed as the leading country with number of child death to pneumonia globally, killing one child every three minutes in Nigeria. The disease claimed an estimate of 162,000 deaths in 2018 – 443…
Follow the Money, an initiative of Connected Development, has defeated three other finalists to emerge the winner of Council of Europe’s Democracy Innovation Award. Follow the Money is a Non-Governmental Organisation focused on advocating, visualizing and tracking government spending and…
The African Development Bank has supported a concession agreement for the construction of a high-speed railway in Accra, Ghana’s capital. The signing was witnessed by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo; Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group and other…
Femi Otedola, billionaire entrepreneur, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity, to support its intervention in the north-east. This is arguably the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s history. “My father, Mr. Femi Otedola,…
It would have been heart-warming if Ms Genevieve Nnaji had kept sealed lips. It would have been gracious if frazzled selectors had promptly apologized, and speedily assumed responsibility, and offered to resign (or feigned it). It would have been a…
Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Africa have pledged to ensure policy delivery and implement decisions reached by African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). Dr. Mithika Mwenda, executive director, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), said that the CSOs would…
South African consumers have become more negative about their banks this year as they tire of overcharging and account fraud through unauthorised debits. These are the findings of the South African Banking Sentiment Index 2019 published by BrandsEye on November…
