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…
The African Development Bank has supported a concession agreement for the construction of a high-speed railway in Accra, Ghana’s capital. The signing was witnessed by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo; Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group and other…
Femi Otedola, billionaire entrepreneur, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity, to support its intervention in the north-east. This is arguably the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s history. “My father, Mr. Femi Otedola,…
It would have been heart-warming if Ms Genevieve Nnaji had kept sealed lips. It would have been gracious if frazzled selectors had promptly apologized, and speedily assumed responsibility, and offered to resign (or feigned it). It would have been a…
Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Africa have pledged to ensure policy delivery and implement decisions reached by African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). Dr. Mithika Mwenda, executive director, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), said that the CSOs would…
South African consumers have become more negative about their banks this year as they tire of overcharging and account fraud through unauthorised debits. These are the findings of the South African Banking Sentiment Index 2019 published by BrandsEye on November…
Nigerian bookstore chain, Rovingheights, will host Olivier van Beemen, Dutch journalist and author of the investigative work Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleased, to an evening of book reading and signing in Nigeria. The literary event scheduled for Tuesday, 29th…
The General Manager National Theatre, Sunday Baba has called on Nigerians to always participate in any show where their culture and traditions are been displayed saying “Oil has failed the nation.” He made this known on Wednesday during the ongoing…
SEEFAR has urged journalists to focus on reporting more human-interest stories on migration to in order to improve public understanding of migration realities. The call was made by the Coordinator of The Migrant Project Nigeria, Clare Henshaw, on Monday while…
