The United Nations health agency yesterday declared the end of Ebola virus transmission in Guinea, where the epidemic began two years ago before spreading to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone and, ultimately by land and air travel to seven other…
As 2015 comes to an end, and with it the 15-year cycle of the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations officially will usher in – on 1 January 2016 – an even more ambitious set of goals to…
Kemi Busari In a bid to raise the reportage of the development sector within and outside Nigeria, Civil Society News Network, a production of Media Advocacy Promotion for Development Initiative, a media NGO based in Lagos is set to commence…
@OlumideIDOWU The Paris Agreement sets crucial goals: to limit global temperature increase, and specific goals in three areas – mitigation, adaptation and finance. The long-term goal for mitigation is 2 °C strengthening to 1.5 °C which guides the Agreement. There…
Kemi Busari The United Nations will next year hold an Informal Interactive Stakeholders Consultation for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016). The consultation which will hold on the 10th of February 2016 at…
Kemi Busari When the name Temitope Oke was called upon to receive award as Best Graduating Student of Economics Department at the 41st convocation ceremony of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), many thought it was the usual business. The mammoth crowd…
Abimbola Akosile writes on the need to step development down to all levels, after attending an intensive training of West African media practitioners on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are billed to kick off in Nigeria on January…
Kemi Busari The Federal Government of Nigeria has re-affirmed its commitment towards the realization of the CoP21 agreement and support for the developing nation who are the most vulnerable. Minister of Environment Amina Muhammed who noted that the outcome of…
Jude Chukwuemeka The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) earlier this week selected Nigeria as one of the three countries for the initial rollout of its new healthcare delivery programme in Africa. In a statement issued in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, the…
An article in ThisDay newspaper, several weeks ago described how climate change is already affecting food security in Nigeria. The article explained that the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) warned of an impending threat to food security in Nigeria…
