By Mayowa Adeniran | The Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) is a network of Civil Society Organizations working in the area of protecting the rights of children and women, and addressing the menace of Trafficking in Persons…
To further enhance youth participation in politics, YIAGA Africa has concluded arrangements to partner with the Nigerian Bar Association and Young Lawyers Forum to provide free legal services to young men, women, and Person with Disabilities who are contesting for…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Global Centre on Adaptation on Tuesday launched a new initiative aimed at helping African Countries to access more climate adaptation funding. This was an offshoot to the commitment made by world leaders last November…
By Yemi Sodeeq, Informant 247 Without a thorough audit of the voter register before the 2023 general elections, many foreigners who are already in possession of Nigerian permanent voter registration cards will cast their ballots. In Kosubosu, a border…
Women of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South are demanding for 50 per cent Affirmative Action from the party’s presidential hopeful, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Leading the call is the wife of the Cross River State Governor, Linda…
The Kaduna State Government has taken a step further in curbing sexual offences as it launches the sex offenders database. The platform according to the Deputy Governor, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, is a register to be used to expose the identities…
The 2022 edition of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, COP27 rounded up with countries reaching an agreement on funding to compensate vulnerable nations for ‘loss and damage’ from climate-induced disasters. Developing countries made strong and repeated appeals for…
Barely two (2) weeks since the commencement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP27, the President of this year’s conference, Sameh Shoukry, said attending parties have failed to reach a consensus on loss and damage, mitigation,…
Ahead of the 2023 presidential and governorship elections, Yiaga Africa, a civil society organisation, has trained and deployed 882 Long Term Observers for the observation and reporting of pre-election environments in all the 774 local governments in Nigeria. The observers…
By Iretomiwa Akintunde-Johnson A UK-based early career Nigerian researcher has published Africa’s first qualitative research on idiosyncratic deals, a nascent field in modern management. Dotun Ayeni’s paper titled ‘Temporal contexts and actors vis-a-vis i-deals’ timing and creation: Evidence from Nigeria’…
