The Open Society Foundations have announced the appointment of Ayisha Osori as executive director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), effective September 4. Osori is a lawyer, development consultant, and communications strategist with 18 years of experience…
Speaking in Abidjan during a one-day forum on investment risks in Africa hosted by the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) , experts acknowledged that the abundance of current liquidity in the market did nothing to alleviate the capacity...
The African Development Bank and a number of partners on Wednesday launched a programme aimed at preparing nine million Africans, including Nigerians, for high paying employment
Change makers identify macro and micro trends, adapting to them proactively. WACSI, with its third strategic plan seeks to do just that. The new strategy, which was launched on 01 March 2018, dubbed “Enabling Social Transformation through a Robust and…
Google today announced the startups who will participate in the first Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa class, at an event held in Lagos. It also announced a partnership with Udacity and Andela to provide 15,000 single course scholarships and 500 nanodegree…
South Africa has declared that the drought afflicting Cape Town and other parts of the country is a national disaster. The government announcement on Tuesday allows officials to more easily direct resources to drought relief and long-term recovery plans. The…
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has condemned recent violations of freedom of expression in Egypt and called on the government to “accept all freedoms in general and freedom of the media in particular”. “The most alarming among these…
47 youth across 15 African countries including Nigeria, in the CANVASSITY Pan African Youth Democracy Fellowship 2018 have pledged to engage and support government in a bid to foster improved governance, raise accountability and enhance citizen-government collaboration throughout Africa. This…
By Alex Ojekunle – A digital rights expert, Tope Ogundipe has condemned the abuse of Nigeria’s Cybercrimes (Prevention etc) Act to harass journalists and ordinary citizens by powerful elites in he society.. She stated this while speaking at the Research…
#SierraLeoneDecides Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will lead a team of observers to Sierra Leone for the country’s general election scheduled to hold on March 7, 2018. Jonathan will be heading the election observation mission of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable…
