By Ijeoma Ukazu – Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the successor to Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) is targeted to achieve 17 mapped out goals by 2030. These Sustainable Development Goals were strategically designed to eliminate extreme poverty, discrimination, abuse and preventable…
The Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Ms Amina Mohammed, have encouraged African youths to be involved in the development of the continent. The deputy secretary made the call at the African Youth Development Summit. She noted that though…
Africa’s leading charity foundation, Baywood Foundation has launched a new book, Beyond Rhetorics, which seeks to proffer solutions to the many challenges Nigerian youths face. During the launch, Emperor Chris Baywood Ibe, founder of Baywood Foundation called for the adaptation…
It is appalling to see some of our fellow compatriots post the photographs of the former military head of state , General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on their Facebook walls with remarks and commentaries mocking his “ ailment”. One of the…
By Ijeoma Ukazu – An Oncologist, Dr. Muhammad Habeebu, Head of department, Radiotherapy, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has said that childless women are at higher risk of having breast cancer. Making this known in Lagos at the 9th Symposium and…
Seek transparency in procurement of military equipment Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have said that the huge amount of money being voted by governments as security votes should be banned, saying they are hidden behind a veil of secrecy that serves…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched a new Organization-wide framework on Thursday to coordinate efforts across the peace and security, humanitarian, human rights and sustainable development sectors. Termed the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, the framework is an agreement between…
Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University – Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative offices in Nigeria. There’s also trouble brewing elsewhere in Nigeria’s business world that’s prompted…
John J Stremlau, University of the Witwatersrand – More than a dozen national elections will be held across Africa next year. All 55 members of the African Union (AU) are obligated to hold regular and ostensibly democratic elections. They must…
Connected Development (CODE), a non-governmental organisation with a mission to empower marginalised communities in Africa through tracking of government spending at the grassroots has completed its mega town hall meeting in Ondo. CODE through its Follow The Money campaign in…
