Weeks after Lagos state government raised tariff on Land charge in the state, the Federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari has also approved an amendment to the excise duty rates for alcoholic beverages and tobacco with effect from Monday,…
Kimpact Development Initiative, a non-governmental Organization working on youth development, policy advocacy and good governance has called on the youth in Osun State to rise and take their rightful place in the policies of things as the 2018 Governorship race…
OrderPaper.ng, an online newspaper, has announced the commencement of ConsTrack, a project aimed at ensuring robust citizens’ engagement on constituency projects done by lawmakers in the country. In a statement issued on Tuesday by Titilope Fadare, programme assistant, the newspaper…
TeamApt, a leading financial technology firm, has announced its collaboration with Open Banking Nigeria, a not-for-profit founded by banking and financial technology industry veterans to introduce open non-partisan Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) into its system, for enhanced service offerings, sustainable…
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year to commemorate the movement for women’s rights.globally. While the first observance of a Women’s Day was held on February 28, 1909 in New York, March 8 was suggested by the…
The Secretary of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Musa Usman Abubakar has taken over the baton of leadership of the commission. This is coming as Upper chamber of the National Assembly placed embargo on the…
By Alex Ojekunle – A digital rights expert, Tope Ogundipe has condemned the abuse of Nigeria’s Cybercrimes (Prevention etc) Act to harass journalists and ordinary citizens by powerful elites in he society.. She stated this while speaking at the Research…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has devoted considerable time and resources to global health endeavors, but in the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up, it’s shifting its mission. In an op-ed posted on Quartz, Melinda Gates announced that the foundation will share $170…
In a bid to bridge the gender divide in the tech ecosystem in Nigeria and to empower women to be self-dependent and become leaders in tech, Tech4dev, with Microsoft’s backing, has successfully trained over 400 women coders from the Nigerian…
By: Mayowa Adeniran – YIAGA Africa, an NGO, has said the 2018 budget for the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development is “unrealistic and insufficient” The organisation lauded the increased programmes targeted at women and girls while urging…
