President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday assigned portfolios to the newly sworn-in ministers. The full list is below: 1) Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah – Abia, Mines and Steel Development, State 2) Muhammed Musa Bello – Adamawa, FCT 3) Sen. Godswill Obot Akpabio…
The Human Development Initiative (HDI), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Nigeria, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to increase the funding of education to improve the quality and standard of education in the country. HDI made this known in a communiqué…
Civil Society Organisations have called on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to open an investigation into the gruesome murder of police officers by personnel of the Nigerian Army. The CSOs, who spoke in Abuja at a round table of…
Paradigm Initiative and Citizens Gavel have agreed to work together to promote and advance digital rights in Nigeria through strategic litigation and other activities. Both organisations will also work together to educate the public about the digital rights and applicable…
Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo, Executive Director, Forum for for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA, Ghana has said there’s urgent need to close the gender gap in the Agricultural sector in order to achieve food sufficiency in Nigeria. Dr Yemi Akinbamijo made…
Brain Builders International (BBI) and educational stakeholders in Nigeria has lamented the high rate of illiteracy and increasing rate out-of-school children in Nigeria. The stakeholders who met at a one-day event in Kwara State in commemoration of 2019 International Youth…
By MAYOWA ADENIRAN | Nigerians have adjudged the judiciary system in the country to have become weaker in the past two years. 85% of Nigerians, in reaction to a poll organised by Gavel, posited that the role of judiciary in…
The efforts towards ending the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has received a boost in Osun State as 83 prominent Traditional Rulers in the state lent their voices to the eradication of Female Genital Mutilation The traditional rulers said…
The HIV/AIDS (anti-discrimination) Act was enacted in Nigeria in the year 2014, but has since remained dormant due to non-implementation. Unfortunately, besides the psychological trauma and pains persons living with HIV go through in the country, they also face various…
“WASHCOM plays significant role in influencing the community to end open defecation and adopt safe hygiene behaviors not only among all households but also in neighboring communities,” said Bioye Ogunjobi, WASH specialist.
