23 organisations have received benefited from grant making non-profit organization, Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation’s 2017 grant scheme. Act Foundation, announced the recipients of its awarded 2017 Grant Scheme to include organisations operating in areas such as in health, entrepreneurship,…
Ethiopian Airline is making a conscious effort to lure Nigerians connecting flights to other locations from Ethiopia to stop over and see attractive and historical locations in the country. This is coming at a time the airline has built a…
The Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) has announced the inaugural recipients of the AIG Scholarships, the organisation’s fully funded scholarships programme which has been instituted to increase capacity for best practices in the public sector across the continent. Five scholarships…
By Charles Kojo Vandyck- The growing and worrying phenomenon of shrinking civic space in Africa hampers citizens from freely exercising their fundamental human rights. According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law’s 2016 quarterly review of non-governmental organization (NGO) legal trends around the…
…Empowers 2,000 Others, Organizations With Grants, Assistive Technologies, Mobility Aids Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday announced that in line with the promise he made at a recent Town Hall Meeting held in Ojo, the State Government would…
By: Franka Osakwe – Patience Agbo, 53year old widow living in Awka, couldn’t understand why she was always feeling tired and losing weight. The first time she went to hospital, she was told she had to pay consultancy fee. She…
BudgIT announces launch of Civic Hive – a platform to create an intersection between citizens and the government… Civic-tech organization, BudgIT, announces the launch of its civic tech focused platform, Civic Hive. The platform is established to create an intersection between the…
The largest gathering of young global innovators, UNLEASHLAB2017, kick started on Sunday with 1000 professionals from 129 countries who have proved a passion for positive change to address 7 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals? On the innovation lab day…
With current statistics showing Lagos State generating about 13,000 metric tons of waste daily, the state government has disclosed its intention to raise N50 billion through bond issuance to finance waste management. The bond, which is in two series, will…
…Increasing Threats on Free Speech as Political Terrorism “Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. One would have thought that…
