A civil society organization, CSO, Connected Development (CODE), with support from the Open Society Initiative for Aest Africa (OSIWA) organized a two day training for School-based Management Committees (SBMCs) and State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in Borno state. The…
Nigeria is the least among 157 countries on social spending, tax and labour rights. This was contained in a report released on Tuesday at the annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting, holding in Bali, Indonesia. The report titled…
President Muhammadu Buhari has banned 50 prominent Nigerians suspected of corruption from travelling abroad. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, said the development is part of steps being taken to enforce the executive order 6 recently signed by the president. He said…
The current context within which the workings of the NNPC should be debated and interrogated is how it can assume and maintain the status of a commercially viable entity, as its consecutive losses are not feasible in a shareholder environment,…
THESE NIGERIAN STUDENTS ARE CODING TO SOLVE THEIR COMMUNITY’S BIGGEST PROBLEMS. Before 13-year-old Mariam joined the GirlsCoding initiative, she had never used a computer. Where she lives in Lagos, schools don’t offer technology classes — and many girls aren’t…
On Tuesday 9th October, Malala Fund launched a new report, Full Force: why the world works better when girls go to school revealing almost one billion girls and young women worldwide lack the education and skills to succeed in a…
PAMACC News Agency The Seventh Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA–VII) has opened in Nairobi, Kenya with a strong call for Africa to prepare and speak with one voice when it goes to the next UN climate…
The international gaming industry has shown its support for Clarion’s vision to deliver a stellar business event for the continent, with the inaugural edition of ICE Africa (24 and 25 of October at the Sandton Convention Centre, South Africa) now…
Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond…
At the just-concluded United Nations General Assembly, the imagery of hunger and malnutrition of Nigerian children was painted as the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) led by Auwal Musa (Rafsanjani) and other experts provide panacea to the elusive actualisation…
