By: Mayowa Adeniran – A United States-based non-profit-making organisation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has listed areas it has intervened in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Deputy Director of the foundation, Oladayo Olaide, said the organisation has made interventions in areas such…
The Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Waziri Adio has been invited to the 40th EITI International Board Meeting holding in Berlin, Germany from the 28th to 29th of June 2018. The Executive Secretary is expected to brief the EITI…
The African Development Bank and a number of partners on Wednesday launched a programme aimed at preparing nine million Africans, including Nigerians, for high paying employment
It was a sunny Thursday and my bus was traveling on the steep incline that leads to Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. My first point of engagement was Kufana, a settlement with about 600 dwellers amid the rocky…
Citing several instances of non-compliance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 over the last seven years, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has inducted the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology into its “FOI Hall of Shame”.…
Gabriel Ogunjobi – The Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari has just entered three new bilateral agreements with the Kingdom of Morocco under His Majesty King Mohammed VI. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development – Chief Audu Ogbeh and his…
The Nigerian Government has now made an urgent clarification on the June 12 public holidays as declared by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Petroleum Trust Fund was to intervene in such areas as roads and waterways, supply of educational materials, rehabilitation of educational infrastructure, food supply, health, water supply, etc. Buhari set up a capricious management structure and appointed Afri-Project Consortium
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Gavel Nigeria has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, to pay unscheduled visits to police stations at least once a month.
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday resolved to look into a report by the international human rights organisation, Amnesty International, alleging that Nigerian security forces of rape and domestic violence against women in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Borno
