The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola on Saturday signed a N4.34 Billion Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dangote Group and other stakeholders for the reconstruction of Apapa Wharf Road. The project is to be funded by…
Mr. Gbenga Adebija has been appointed Director-General and Chief Executive of the Nigerian-German Business Association. Adebija is an accomplished administrator and entrepreneur with broad-ranging experience in the private and public sector. Educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, Adebija held…
By: Tunde Leye From my immediate University clique, another person is leaving Nigeria for America at the end of this month, with her family of three. Virtually every month for the last two years, I’ve gone to visit one person or…
State of Civil Society Report 2017 – Overview of threats & trends Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary General of CIVICUS presents key findings from this year’s State of Civil Society Report. This year’s report finds violations of civil society rights in 106…
African Clean-Up Conference is an international conference aimed at bringing together Civic Leaders, Nation Builders, Environmentalist, Government Agencies and Officials across Africa to share ideas, knowledge and proffer solutions to issues on Sanitation, Climate Change, Recycling and Waste Management, as…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Nigeria welcomes its new Country Director, Samuel Bwalya, begun his tour of duty on Monday 12 June, 2017. As Country Director, working under the delegated authority of the UNDP Resident Representative and UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in…
By: Ademola OduguwaFollow Innovation Fellow: Building Air Quality Monitoring Sensors @Code4Africa Packets of black, soot-infested air welcomed me as I stepped out of my car, blurring the sight of objects some meters away. My upper and lower eyelids fought back in embrace…
The Federal Government has inaugurated donor development agencies to assist in bridging gaps and deficiencies in the Nigerian mining sector. Dr Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Mines and Steel Development, performed the exercise on Friday in Abuja. The agencies, which included…
Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa for the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. The Bots for Messenger Challenge is a contest to recognise and reward developers who…
The Nigerian Chapter of the Global Legislator’s Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE Nigeria) has called on the National Assembly to pass the draft Climate Change framework bill 2017 that is currently at different stages of both chambers. This is…
