By Ijeoma Ukazu | With information shared on WhatsApp and other social media platforms on Coronavirus, (ConVid-19), the United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) has appealed to the public to trust information only from verified sources. According to a statement made…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting, (ICBD) 2020, the federal Government has called on media houses across the country to allow children air their views through…
The Lagos State Government took to the streets over the weekend to carry out an inspection of some ongoing drainage clearance and dredging projects in the state. This was as the government restated its commitment towards ensuring that it is…
Indicators has pointed in a new report, the National Demographic Health Survey, (NDHS) 2018 that despite the attainment of 29 percent on Exclusive Breastfeeding, Nigeria is still lagging behind from the global target of 50 percent. The 12 percent incriment…
Nigeria, the largest population in Africa has recorded its first confirmed case of Coronavirus COVID-19 in Lagos State. The Ministry of Health in Lagos State has however, reported its first case to the Federal Ministry of Health. Revealing this, the…
In several news reports, World Bank President David Malpass was recently quoted as saying some Multilateral Development Banks, including the African Development Bank, have a tendency to lend too quickly and in the process, add to the continent’s debt problems.…
Kole and Amina are two of a kind in all essence for me. The support for anti-corruption campaigns in Nigeria by MacArthur Foundation, which this duo anchor together with their team, remain by far the most far-reaching, as well as…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government to “disclose within 7 days of the receipt and/or publication of our Freedom of Information requests the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military head of state,…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | Some cultural ideals of femininity and modesty especially in Africa notes that, girls are clean and beautiful after removal of body parts that are considered unclean, hence the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM). The girl…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | With the increased number of child deaths from Micronutrient Deficiency (MND), Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria, (CS-SUNN) has raised alarm calling on the government to increase its intervention. Speaking during a one-day media roundtable in…
