The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with Chi Farms and Niji Foods, has launched two new agribusiness partnerships. The event highlighted USAID’s agricultural and private sector strategy using partnerships with government, local organisations and private industry to develop…
While much work remains to find a cure for cancer – the good news is we know that many forms of cancer are preventable. On World Cancer Day, a moment when the global community comes together to reflect on those…
The CVL annual lecture – the flagship of all CVL programmes, which has been held every February 6 since 2004, is a key instrument we have adopted to constructively contribute to nation building and national development. This day also…
With the advent of social media and the wider access to the internet in Nigeria and other countries of the world, the news is no longer what it is. Unlike in the past when we all depended on the traditional…
The worsening power generation and distribution nationwide has stifled socio-economic and political life forcing productive activities to a halt. Experts in the industry are now calling for immediate dialogue between the federal government and stakeholders in order to look for…
In Nigeria, there are stakeholders in the maritime industry who see nothing wrong in introducing high duties on luxury items. However, they argue that to generate high revenue from the sector, government needs to reduce duties on other essential goods…
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas , strongly condemns Tuesday’s deadly attack against a United Nations Technical Monitoring Team that was conducting a…
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has continued the payment of retirees’ entitlements by paying the sum of N597 million to another set of 148 retirees drawn from the Mainstream Civil Service, Local Governments and State Universal Basic Education…
In a bid to corroborate the federal government’s anti-corruption war, Follow the Money, Nigeria’s largest anti-corruption grassroots movement has been on the trail of funds approved for projects at every strata of government. Notable among its tracking is investigation of…
Africa truly is known for a lot of things. The continent is known for different things including weak regional integration and relatively low levels development. Africa can also boasts some of the biggest sources and reserves of natural and human…
