By Daniel Henry | Indonesia ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap, said the country is bringing in 16 companies in Nigeria with new technologies as a way of strengthening its bilateral trade cooperation with Nigeria. In a statement delivered by Nigerian…
Japan and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would be conducting a mercury survey of landfill facilities in Nigeria by the year 2020 in order to mitigate air pollution in Nigeria. Idea Consultants of Japan is collaborating with the Federal…
The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) has opened a Risk Sharing Facility, as one of the bank’s gender-focused programmes which seeks to accelerate growth and employment creation across African economies, by closing the financing…
The ConstitutionLab, a civic tech organization, has organized a quiz competition for some secondary schools in the country. The competition, which held on Friday, 15th November 2019 according to the TeamLead of ConstitutionLab, Brownson Etimbuk was aimed at actively engaging…
Ndidi Nwuneli, founder of LEAP Africa and co-founder of Sahel Consulting, has been appointed to the board of trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation. According to a statement released by the foundation, Nwuneli was appointed on the board alongside Agnes Binagwaho,…
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE NIGERIA, NETHERLANDS PLEDGE STRONGER PARTNERSHIPS ON TRADE, INVESTMENTS, SECURITY President Muhammadu Buhari and Prime Minister Mark Rutte met on Tuesday in Abuja to discuss bilateral relations and agreed that Nigeria and the Netherlands would continue to…
At least 1.534 trillion naira has been received by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) since its inception in 2001. This amount was allocated to the NDDC for expenditures on projects to reverse the huge infrastructural deficit in the nine…
The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) has identified the top 10 finalists for its grand finale event taking place in Accra, Ghana on 16 November 2019. The finalists were chosen from nearly 10,000 applicants from 50 African countries. After months…
By Mayowa Adeniran | Nigeria has been listed as the leading country with number of child death to pneumonia globally, killing one child every three minutes in Nigeria. The disease claimed an estimate of 162,000 deaths in 2018 – 443…
Follow the Money, an initiative of Connected Development, has defeated three other finalists to emerge the winner of Council of Europe’s Democracy Innovation Award. Follow the Money is a Non-Governmental Organisation focused on advocating, visualizing and tracking government spending and…
