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Nigeria’s Obiageli Ezekwesili in conjunction with the Robert Bosch Academy presents the #FixPolitics Initiative with an inaugural conference in Lagos. Ezekwesili who is currently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow under the academy, has spent the last 6 months probing the…
The annual Africa Startup Summit took place in Kigali last week, with six of the continent’s most prolific investors taking to the stage for the keynote panel discussion around creating a generation of funded African startups. Here are seven things…
In the 2019 SDG index, Nigeria ranked 159th among 162 countries compared in terms of their achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nigeria’s performance score of 46.4 is just a little above the score for the Central African Republic, a…
By Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher on February 13, 2020 As reporters for Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper, Samuel Ogundipe and Azeezat Adedigba told CPJ they spoke often over the phone. They had no idea that their regular conversations about work and their personal lives were…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government to “disclose within 7 days of the receipt and/or publication of our Freedom of Information requests the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military head of state,…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | Some cultural ideals of femininity and modesty especially in Africa notes that, girls are clean and beautiful after removal of body parts that are considered unclean, hence the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM). The girl…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | With the increased number of child deaths from Micronutrient Deficiency (MND), Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria, (CS-SUNN) has raised alarm calling on the government to increase its intervention. Speaking during a one-day media roundtable in…
His election came with lots of expectations, given his background and profile, as a former Senator of the Federal Republic, a grassroots man and an erudite professor. Born as Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade not long ago in 1968, he had become…
By Oyetunde Oluwatobi | Responding to the realities of climate change has been more of political rhetorics than real-life action in Nigeria. While this continues to build into a disastrous future for the country, the government is ignoring the early…
The Lagos State Government has launched an Incident Command System as part of efforts to prevent an outbreak of the fast-spreading Coronavirus in the state. While launching the Incident Command System, the governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the measure is…
