Strengthening the healthcare system in north-east Nigeria – a priority for WHO
...Strengthening the healthcare system is a top priority of WHO’s health emergency response in the north-east Nigeria
FBRA Encourages Waste Recycling, Launches Buy-back Initiative at Orile Community
The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) has called on citizens of Lagos State to imbibe the culture of recycling. This is as it reinstated its unwavering commitment to a cleaner environment through its buy-back campaign on recyclable waste launched at Orile…
UNICEF Urges Media To Raise Awareness Of Sanitation
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has appealed to journalists in Nigeria to raise awareness of sanitation, particularly the benefit of using toilets. Speaking at a Media Dialogue in Kano on Sanitation and Hygiene, UNICEF Communication Specialist, Dr Geoffrey Njoku…
Oke Adu Community Efforts Rescues Women, Children From Death
By Ijeoma Ukazu – It is inspiring when community contribute in whichever shape or form to the well-being of individuals within its environ. Community based care is an essential component that has the potential to substantially improve maternal, newborn, and…
Osinbajo, Tinubu, Others To Attend Launch of Book On Dapo Olorunyomi
A book of essays in honour of frontline journalist, Dapo Olorunyomi, will be unveiled on Monday, May 27, at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. Mr. Olorunyomi, who was among the team that founded the hard-hitting TheNews/Tempo magazines in the 1990s,…
Focus attention on political parties to function effectively — Itodo
The Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Mr Samson Itodo has advised the Ghanaian electorate to rigorously engage political parties in the same manner as they do their electoral management bodies. Mr Itodo explained that political parties were often the causes of…
Fulani Terrorists: Creating A National Crucible of Disaster, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Nigeria is a “tragedy descending into a farce”… With the deadly silence from those who unleashed Operation Crocodile Smile on the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) but who have refused to even utter a word on Fulani terrorists, the nation…
How to Get a Nigerian Passport Within One Week Without Paying a Bribe
...The Vice President, who is the head of PEBEC, should use the power of his office to ensure that they implement these recommendations and that the Passport Service does not continue to get away with the current dysfunctionin passport issuance, to the detriment of Nigerians.
Group Sues Amaechi over Failure to Provide Information on Chinese Railway Loans
The Centre for Social Justice Limited by Guarantee (CSJ) has filed a lawsuit against Honourable Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amechi, for failing to respond to an freedom of Information request on details of the contracts/agreements signed between the Governments and…
#CSF2019: Engaging Civil Society to Accelerate Regional Integration for Africa’s Economic Prosperity
The African Development Bank celebrated its tenth annual Civil Society Forum, hosting more than two hundred representatives from civil society and international organizations as well as from governments from across the continent, at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan. Organized by…
