Four months after Omar El-Bashir was forced out of office, General Abdul Fattah Burhan, head of the now dissolved Transitional Military Council (TMC), was today sworn in as the leader of a newly formed sovereign council. He was sworn in…
A pioneer study by researchers into the effect of micro plastics in water on humans, says the substance passes through the body and does not get absorbed. A report by the World Health Organisation says more studies are needed, as…
...Gbajabiamila said 20 per cent of available jobs should be reserved for “qualified physically challenged persons” across every ministry, agency and parastatal.
By Mayowa Adeniran | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Federal Ministry of Environment through its Department of Climate Change have launched a Climate Incubation Hub in Nigeria to involve the youths in finding solution of climate problems…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday assigned portfolios to the newly sworn-in ministers. The full list is below: 1) Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah – Abia, Mines and Steel Development, State 2) Muhammed Musa Bello – Adamawa, FCT 3) Sen. Godswill Obot Akpabio…
Paradigm Initiative and Citizens Gavel have agreed to work together to promote and advance digital rights in Nigeria through strategic litigation and other activities. Both organisations will also work together to educate the public about the digital rights and applicable…
Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo, Executive Director, Forum for for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA, Ghana has said there’s urgent need to close the gender gap in the Agricultural sector in order to achieve food sufficiency in Nigeria. Dr Yemi Akinbamijo made…
Brain Builders International (BBI) and educational stakeholders in Nigeria has lamented the high rate of illiteracy and increasing rate out-of-school children in Nigeria. The stakeholders who met at a one-day event in Kwara State in commemoration of 2019 International Youth…
By MAYOWA ADENIRAN | Nigerians have adjudged the judiciary system in the country to have become weaker in the past two years. 85% of Nigerians, in reaction to a poll organised by Gavel, posited that the role of judiciary in…
The efforts towards ending the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has received a boost in Osun State as 83 prominent Traditional Rulers in the state lent their voices to the eradication of Female Genital Mutilation The traditional rulers said…
