Lilian Ezejelue Prisoners in Jigawa State had relief materials supplied to them by the Jigawa State Agency for Mass Education. The items supplied included literary materials like exercise books, pencils, sharpeners, chalks, rulers, and blackboards. The materials were donated with…
By Our Reporter Cyndy Orji Foundation (COF), an NGO, has called on political stakeholders to be committed to the cause of alleviating poverty in Nigeria. The Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Ndidiamaka Orji, made the appeal in an interview with the…
By Our Reporter The Global Fund Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has agreed to give Mali 170 million dollars to promote prevention and fight against HIV Executive Director, Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidibe, said on Wednesday after…
Committed to changing lives for the positive, Bukola Idowu, the Executive Director of Kimpact Development Initiative has influenced many youths through training and mentorship. The Social Entrepreneur, Trainer, Business development consultant and Human resources professional in this interview with Kemi…
This seems to be the season of Bills at the Nigeria Senate, they are either being sponsored or rejected, and most of the decisions by the Senators regarding these Bills do not sit well with Nigerians. The Frivolous Petition Bill,…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is collaborating with the Government of Finland to organize the main celebration of the 2016 World Press Freedom Day from May 2 to 4 in Helsinki, Finland. UNESCO usually leads the…
Lilian Ezejelue With the advent of internet and technology came the need to protect people’s rights and to promote the correct use of technology so as to guard against using it negatively. It is to this regard that a number…
The Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative is inviting applications for its 2016 Fellowship programme. The Project Director is Mary Hadar and Fellows will be mentored by a group of prestigious journalists including Wolf Blitzer, Linda Feldmann, Martin Fletcher, Glenn Frankel,…
Freemuse, an independent international membership organisation advocating and defending artistic freedom, has released its annual statistics on censorship and attacks on artistic freedom in 2015 which shows that artists in many countries increasingly face attacks on their rights to freedom of…
In a two-day General Assembly held in Kampala, Uganda, on March 3 and 4, 2016, the Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) brought together 39 representatives from all over Africa to learn from each other and brainstorm about actions that…
