The Oyo State Team Leader of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), Mrs Stella Akinso, said on Friday that family planning was a key economic strategy in a recession. Akinso said in Ibadan that the benefits of family planning went…
The National Emergency Management Agency says the number of Internally Displaced Persons in Yola, Adamawa, has dropped from 60,000 to 18,958. Mr Sa’ad Bello, the Head, NEMA Operation Office, Yola, disclosed this on Friday during an oversight visit by the…
Deliberations at the ongoing COP22 climate conference in Marrakech took a different turn today as delegates shifted focus to the nexus between water and climate change in celebration of the first Water Day at the COP. Organized for the…
Deliberations at the ongoing COP22 climate conference in Marrakech took a different turn today as delegates shifted focus to the nexus between water and climate change in celebration of the first Water Day at the COP. Organized for the…
African Civil society at the ongoing climate change negotiations warned that if Parties do not urgently raise their Pre-2020 Ambitions in Marrakech, the impact of low ambition and business as usual scenario could trigger even greater climate crisis in Africa.…
Experts at the UNFCCC’s 22nd Conference of Parties which began yesterday in Marrakech have proposed innovative approaches to solving the African energy challenge. Speaking at a side event on Renewable Energy Performance Platform as a tool to deliver NDC…
Consistent with its commitment to broaden and deepen the Nigerian capital market, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE or The Exchange) in partnership with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Issuers, Vetiva Fund Managers Limited, Lotus Capital Limited and Stanbic IBTC Asset Management, organised…
The Cross River Government has assured residents in the state and tourists coming for the 2016 annual Calabar carnival of adequate security. Mr Ken Aklah, Special Adviser to Gov. Ben Ayade on Event Management, gave the assurance on Thursday in…
The Federal government says it is facilitating the procurement of additional 40 large-scale rice mills to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production by 2018. Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday at a…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has stopped the importation of Dual Purpose Kerosene into the country for three months running, its latest financial and operations report has revealed. According to the August 2016 edition of the report, the last time…
