The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Nigeria welcomes its new Country Director, Samuel Bwalya, begun his tour of duty on Monday 12 June, 2017. As Country Director, working under the delegated authority of the UNDP Resident Representative and UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in…
By: Ademola OduguwaFollow Innovation Fellow: Building Air Quality Monitoring Sensors @Code4Africa Packets of black, soot-infested air welcomed me as I stepped out of my car, blurring the sight of objects some meters away. My upper and lower eyelids fought back in embrace…
The Federal Government has inaugurated donor development agencies to assist in bridging gaps and deficiencies in the Nigerian mining sector. Dr Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Mines and Steel Development, performed the exercise on Friday in Abuja. The agencies, which included…
Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa for the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. The Bots for Messenger Challenge is a contest to recognise and reward developers who…
The Nigerian Chapter of the Global Legislator’s Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE Nigeria) has called on the National Assembly to pass the draft Climate Change framework bill 2017 that is currently at different stages of both chambers. This is…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has disbursed more than $35 billion in trade and project financing to Nigerian public and private entities since its inception to support the country’s economic and trade growth, Bank President Dr. Benedict Oramah has said.…
This is Chisom Anekwe (nee Okereke), a young, vivacious, graceful, kind-hearted and intelligent woman who had devoted her life to helping indigent kids and giving their lives a meaning. She’s an alumna of LEAP Africa. Two weeks ago, precisely April…
The management of Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) would like to bring to the attention of Nigerians on the recent cyber-attack that is affecting computers across the world – the ransomeware attack. This attack, known as “WannaCry” or “WannaCrypt”,…
Nigerian civil society organisations and media houses have come together to collaborate to create the Whistleblower Network Nigeria (WNN) to, among other things, advocate for the review of legislative bills and regulatory provisions threatening press and Internet freedom in Nigeria.They…
The Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries, Nicholaas Vervelde, has resigned. According to a notice posted to the Nigerian Stock Exchange by the company, Thursday afternoon, Mr. Vervelde resigned to take up a new role within the Heineken group outside Nigeria.…
