CSBS News Desk A non-governmental Organisation, Blessed Hands Ministry (BHM), has urged Nigerians to show concern for the sick. Its President, Elfreda Akintewe, who spoke when the organisation visited the Children’s Ward C and D at the National Orthopaedic Hospital,…
CSBS News Desk The Industrial Training Fund, (ITF) has emerged the overall best in the International Federation of Training and Development Organisation, (IFTDO) competition for the IFTDO Global HRD Awards 2016. The position has put Nigeria on the global index…
CSBS News Desk The USAID Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement Project will host the 2.0 Mindset Series on ‘what works’ for policy reforms to share learning through a discourse on how to undertake effective policy reform advocacy for good governance.…
Mayowa Adeniran The outbreak of Zika virus in Central and South America is of immediate concern to pregnant women in the region, but for some experts the situation is a glimpse of the sort of public health threats that will…
CSBS News Desk An alliance of civil society groups across Africa has come together to launch the Africa Civil Society Centre, a dynamic and robust space where progressive African civil society leaders engaged in various civic struggles can convene. Therefore,…
Kemi Busari Aggrieved by what it describe as ‘excessive bank charges’ introduced by Nigerian banks, the Consumer Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria (CAFON) has declared the 1st of March 2016 as a ‘no banking day.’ Seeking 500 signatures to a petition…
CSBS News Desk BudgIT, a civic tech organization, seeks an experienced and innovative storyteller who understands data and can creatively convert it into graphical presentations that push the boundaries of design, transcend illiteracy and language barriers to intersect public spending with…
The Civil Society Scholar Awards (CSSA) support international academic mobility to enable doctoral students and university faculty to access resources that enrich socially-engaged research and critical scholarship in their home country or region. The Open Society Foundations believes in taking on controversial issues and supporting…
Kemi Busari The 2016 Africa Network Conference will hold at the University of Ghana between the 19th and 20th of April 2016, The International Society for Third Sector Research- Africa Regional Network (ISTRAN) has announced. The conference with the theme…
According to the letter obtained by CSBS-News which was sent to Non-Party stakeholders dated 12, Feb, 2016 with Ref;esbLOG16-77 and signed by Christiana Figueres, outgoing Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), made it clear that she…
