The Financial Action Task Force and relevant provisions of the laws and regulations on money laundering and countering terrorism financing were designed to help identify the source, volume and movement of currency and other monetary instruments transported or transmitted into…
Access Bank, Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria and Hacey health Initiative have come together to make a call towards accelerated scale-up of efforts to prevent malaria and save lives under the Malaria To Zero Initiative program for grass root…
The IBA FOUNDATION extended their fight against malaria to Ajegunle , a surburb, and a ghetto in Lagos on the 22nd of April in commemoration with the World Malaria Day 2017 theming the advocacy #KickOutMalaria. The programme started with education…
This week in public health: Neglected tropical diseases, hepatitis, and meningitis An estimated 325 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus infection. The large majority of these people lack access to life-saving testing and…
Access Bank, Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria and Hacey Health Initiative have come together to make a call towards accelerated scale-up of efforts to prevent malaria and save lives under the Malaria To Zero Initiative program for grass root…
When President Mohammadu Buhari was recently in the United Kingdom on a medical vacation, which lasted 59 days, many public officers said that he was “hale and hearty.” But upon his return to the country President Buhari disclosed that he…
An Opinion Piece by Aliko Dangote and Bill Gates This week, more than 138,000 vaccinators will fan out across five African countries in the Lake Chad area in a push to eliminate polio in Africa and rid the world of…
A multilateral proposal for peace, coexistence and mutual understanding Four years have passed since Nelson Mandela, the conscience of humanity in both South Africa and the globe, passed away. The long struggle for rebuilding human rights by Mr. Mandela and…
The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) is accepting proposals to offer grant in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, São Tome and Príncipe and…
Heeding several calls by the Federal Government, Nigerians and experts in the financial institutions in the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise to microfinance banks. This was disclosed in a circular…
