By Mayowa Adeniran | Professor Mohamed Yakub Janabi of the United Republic of Tanzania has been nominated as the next Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. His nomination was confirmed today during a Special Session of…
…Projects Funded by Gates Foundation, to Run till 2028 …EngenderHealth to Co-Implement Initiative Targeting RMNCAH+N Improvement In a major stride toward improving health outcomes in Lagos, the Lagos State Government and EngenderHealth, a global reproductive health organization, on Monday officially…
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the Federal Government to accelerate the formulation of regulations for enforcing salt targets in processed and packaged foods, critical to checkmating the country’s growing prevalence of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke,…
A new report has exposed how food corporations use a sophisticated web of marketing strategies to get Nigerians – especially children and young adults – hooked on ultra-processed foods which damage their health, undermine public health policies, and cost the…
By Ogunlade Olamide and Esi-Ife Arogundade | The fantasy that natural resources are inexhaustible and are always renewable, despite the overwhelming amount of waste generated has been dispelled by the alarming decline of our environmental health. The global waste crisis…
MyAIFactChecker, the pioneering AI-driven fact-checking platform developed by FactCheck Africa, has been officially accepted into the Meta Language Technology Partner Program, an innovative initiative by Meta aimed at advancing open-source language technologies and encouraging greater linguistic inclusion globally. This significant…
“I am a defector, my dictionary defines the act of defecting as ‘abandoning a person or a cause, apostacy, revolt, backsliding.’ Not to put too fine an edge on it, I am a traitor…” (Joseph Frolik in ‘The Frolik Defection:…
By Yusuf Ishaku Goje | Northern Nigeria’s education sector is plagued by challenges, earning it a reputation for being backwards. With the highest number of out-of-school children and alarming levels of learning poverty, the region’s educational landscape is concerning. Despite…
Stakeholders from Guinea and across Africa are organising a summit to draw a seed roadmap for the West African country. The consortium includes the Government of the Republic of Guinea, Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) of the African Development Bank, the…
Nigeria’s journey toward a more efficient, fair, and customer-friendly tax system has taken a giant leap forward with the recent passage of the Tax Reform Bills by the National Assembly. This milestone is not just a victory for the Federal…
