Kemi Busari Every 4th of February of each year is set aside by the United Nations (UN) to observe the World Cancer Day. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about 14 million people learn they have…
CSBS News Desk A coalition, Civil Society Network against Corruption (CSNAC), has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to urgently set in motion its investigative team to unravel the alleged abuse and massive fraud in the N117billion rice import quota…
Kemi Busari Saturday, January 30 2016, saw the historic convergence of student editors and journalists at the Department of Mass Communication in the University of Lagos for the maiden summit of the National Association of Nigerian Campus Editors (NANCE). The…
The Green Climate Fund’s Board meets in South Africa from 2-4 February for an informal session to address the Fund’s objectives and plans for 2016 and beyond. The last formal Board meeting took place in November 2015, when the Fund approved its first…
“A development framework that is people-centered can only succeed if it embraces the social dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is because people are, and must remain the focus of the global, regional and local development efforts,” said…
Kemi Busari The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) today hosted Civil Society Groups, Non-Governmental Organisations, media and other stakeholders in the development sector. The meeting was convened to discuss ways of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and other United Nations…
Kemi Busari The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other election stakeholders have adopted advocacy materials and publications produced by the Lagos State Civil Society Partnership (LACSOP) and Disability Policy & Advocacy Initiative, (DPAI) with support from DFID-SAVI. The publications…
CSBS News Desk Hundreds of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates in the Southwest yesterday protested in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, over non-availability of exam centres. The candidates marched on most media offices, calling on the government to come…
CSBS News Desk The female gender has received scarce representation in media reportage despite their roles and contributions to the country’s development. This was the submission of journalists at the public presentation of a research report titled ‘mainstreaming gender reporting…
CSBS News Desk Senegalese researchers who helped contain the Ebola epidemic in West Africa are training Brazilians on how to tackle the Zika virus. They have brought along a mobile lab which quickly detects the virus. Senegalese researcher Amadou…
