CSBS News Desk The United Nations said $58 million was released to assist 2.4 million internally displaced people in the Boko Haram insurgency. An official in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Abuja, Ms Kate Pond,…
CSBS News Desk A coalition of civil society groups today protested to the National Assembly premises, insisting that the sack of the Vice Chancellor, VC, of the National Open University of Nigeria and 12 other VCs of newly established Federal…
CSBS News Desk The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has joined states in the region to fight the Lassa fever scourge by donating personal protective kits and other accessories. Presenting the kits to the states, the acting Managing Director of…
CSBS News Desk Over 600 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have been relocated from schools to permanent resettlement camps across Maiduguri, the state capital. The decision followed the state government’s plans to open public schools in the metropolis which have been…
CSBS News Desk Health workers in the country under the auspices of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have said they will embark on another round of strike over government’s inability to implement…
CSBS News Desk The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has commenced the distribution of special needs, food and non-food items to internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri. A statement by the information officer of the agency’s North-east office, Mallam…
CSBS News Desk The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii, has stated that the agency has gained international rating as one of the top 20 medicine regulatory agencies in…
CSBS News Desk Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, with support from AccessNow, Google, Facebook, Civicus and Internews, will host this year’s Internet Freedom Forum in Abuja, on March 8 and 9, 2016. The theme of the pan-African event that will host delegates from Cameroun,…
CSBS News Desk No fewer than 5, 000 beneficiaries received free medical test, counseling and drugs on different ailments, including hypertension, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and malaria in a medical outreach in Osun State. The programme was organised by the National Agency…
CSBS News Desk The Chief of Field Office, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Nigeria Bauchi Field Office, Dr. Abdulai Kaikai, has disclosed that the agency has invested around N300 million for the treatment of 28,000 severely malnourished children in Bauchi…
