Popular social media platform, Facebook has been criticised by two Non-Governmental Organisations for the recent allegation that the social media platform is being used as a conduit for the online sale of Cameroonian refugee children in Nigeria. The Africans Unite…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Mr. Clement Voule, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to peaceful assembly and association urging him to “publicly express concerns about the growing human rights violations and abuses in Nigeria and call on the authorities…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | The main role of primary health care is to provide continuous and comprehensive care to persons who seek care. However, in order to guarantee that patients get these comprehensive care, health stakeholders have called for urgent…
The Embassy of Japan has partnered with Street To School Initiative, a nongovernmental organization, to provide primary healthcare centre for residents of Surulere Community and Agbado/Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area. The health centre was inaugurated by the Charge d’Affaires at…
Youths have urged the Nigerian government and stakeholders in the health sector to create more intervention programs for young people living in marginalized communities especially on HIV prevention. The call was made at a One-Day Community Outreach held on the…
The civil society in the southwest today reviewed budget engagement in the region, shared experience of good practices and re-strategized towards galvanizing and improving service delivery. The meeting which was facilitated by Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a…
The ConstitutionLab, a civic tech organization, has organized a quiz competition for some secondary schools in the country. The competition, which held on Friday, 15th November 2019 according to the TeamLead of ConstitutionLab, Brownson Etimbuk was aimed at actively engaging…
Follow the Money, an initiative of Connected Development, has defeated three other finalists to emerge the winner of Council of Europe’s Democracy Innovation Award. Follow the Money is a Non-Governmental Organisation focused on advocating, visualizing and tracking government spending and…
Femi Otedola, billionaire entrepreneur, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity, to support its intervention in the north-east. This is arguably the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s history. “My father, Mr. Femi Otedola,…
SEEFAR has urged journalists to focus on reporting more human-interest stories on migration to in order to improve public understanding of migration realities. The call was made by the Coordinator of The Migrant Project Nigeria, Clare Henshaw, on Monday while…
