The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $15 million subordinated loan to Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company Limited (InfraCredit) to solidify its capital base in helping close Nigeria’s infrastructure financing gap.
As the programme director, Mr Babatunde will now oversee all of CJID’s programmatic work including Journalism, Accountability, Development, and Dubawa. The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) has appointed Akintunde Babatunde as its new Programme Director to oversee all programmatic work…
The Lagos State Civil Society Participation for Development (LACSOP), the umbrella body of all civil Society Organizations in Lagos, has charged all Lagosians to shun every form of violence as they go to the polls for the 2023 Gubernatorial and…
Several voters in Bauchi State will make their decisions about who to elect into various positions based on what they have heard preached in their respective worship centres. The religious metric has been condemned and described as divisive, but it…
WikkiTimes, Idris Kamal & Hafsat Muhammed | As Nigerians prepare for one of the country’s most decisive elections since 1999 to pick their president and federal lawmakers, Senator Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, the lawmaker representing Gombe north under the All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Solace Base, Elijah Akoh | Aisha Dahiru, in Hatsu ward Miga LGA, a flood victim, lost her voter card during the flooding of her community. But the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has failed to provide her a new voter’s card despite reapplying…
The Whistler, Ben Aroh | Some eligible voters who lost their permanent voter cards and applied for re-issuance claim they are yet to obtain them from their chosen local government areas because of the failure of the Independent National Electoral…
By Ogar Monday, CrossRiverWatch In Marian, Calabar Municipal, just before the street to the Cross River State secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, is a building awash with the 2023 election advertisement of party candidates of the…
Ben Aroh, The Whistler | Simon Ekpa, self-styled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in a viral video, imposed sit-at-home and curfew on South East and some parts of old Eastern Region during the 2023 general elections. His…
Aminu Adamu, WikkiTimes | Barely one week before Nigeria’s general election, residents of rural communities in Zamfara State still live between hope and fear as insecurity that has over the years rendered thousands homeless threatens peaceful polls. “Just a few…
