Nigeria and Italy have strengthened collaboration on a Global Partnership for Education (GPE) financing campaign targeting $5 billion for education financing worldwide. The partnership was highlighted on Wednesday in New York during the Multiply Possibility high-level event, “A New Era…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called for increased access to affordable, long-term financing to help states and regions implement climate action projects at scale. Sanwo-Olu made the call on Wednesday at the United Nations High-level Meeting on Climate Action…
A 29-year-old woman, Joy Amos, who suffered severe burns in a gas explosion in her room in Bille, Rivers State, has died. Amos died on Tuesday, September 22, after she was moved from Bille to Port Harcourt for further treatment.…
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has slammed the simultaneous absence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima from the country, labeling the situation a dangerous disregard for Nigeria’s grundnorm. In a statement signed by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stepped up preparations for the 2027 General Election by launching a targeted workshop to train its Public Affairs Officers (PAOs) on proper archiving, cataloguing, and record documentation. The training session, held in Abuja,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) opened a landmark African media forum on road safety today, September 22, 2026. The gathering marks the start of a continent-wide effort to draft Africa’s first…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) says it is consulting relevant stakeholders ahead of the constitution and inauguration of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) for the 2027 elections. The party disclosed this in a statement signed by Osa Director Esq, the…
On April 1, 2026, an aircraft carrying eight deportees from the United States landed at Entebbe, a windswept peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, after a 16-hour journey to Uganda, a landlocked country in East Africa. On the…
By Dr Pavel Ursu | When Africa’s health ministers convened in Addis Ababa for the Seventy-sixth session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa (RC76), they faced a question of growing urgency: How can Africa build health systems…
The Initiative to Resist Institutional Slavery and Exploitation (iRISE) organized a round-table meeting for media practitioners which held at Perfecto La Villa Hotel, Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos, on September 10, 2026, and focused on improving the coverage of Sexual and Reproductive Health…
