Responding to the news that armed attackers have abducted 80 students and killed a police officer at a college in Kebbi State, Nigeria, Save the Children’s Nigeria Country Director Mercy Gichuhi said: “Save the Children is horrified by reports that 80 students have…
…African children speak out about how the COVID-19 pandemic tipped an existing education safety crisis to breaking point While the continent is celebrating Day of the African Child and the 30th anniversary of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare…
By Kenneth AFOR | Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI) has expressed concern on the nomination of Ms. Lauretta Onochie, a political appointee and Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on social media as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF has received approximately US$39 million in emergency funds from the government of Japan for the development of vaccine cold chains in Nigeria and 31 countries in Africa and Latin America…
By IJEOMA UKAZU | “There are children out there who are vulnerable to violence, exposed to danger, forced into labour, some of them are not in school. I believe every African child has the right to go to school. More…
In a bid to accelerate the adoption of technologies in the renewable energy space, the current Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer the of Rural Electrification Agency Nigeria (REA), Engr. Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad divulged that the REA’s research and Innovation hub has…
President Muhammadu Buhari has given the go ahead for the launching of at least 36 oxygen plants across the country. This is coming as one of the government’s numerous measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease. It is…
Burkina Faso recently approved the commercial use of its first pearl millet hybrid called Nafagnon. With the approval, the single-cross hybrid also became the first of its kind to be approved in West and Central Africa (WCA). Nafagnon yields as much as…
With agriculture accounting for about 20% of GDP in the Republic of Benin, and employing over 50% of the workforce (aged 15-64) according to statistics, various initiatives have been implemented to promote youth in agribusiness in the country. However, there…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has restated the need for Special Economic Status for the State owing to its role in the nation and the burdens it bears. Speaking today at the South West Zonal Public Hearing of…
