Nigerien authorities should reverse the expulsion of journalist Baba Alpha and ensure his safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. After jailing him for a year, authorities on April 3 released Baba Alpha, a journalist with the privately owned…
The inescapable truth for those who study disease outbreaks, new viruses, and the spread of illness is a haunting one. The next pandemic is coming. Known, incurable diseases lurk in hidden reservoirs all over the world. Thousands of unknown viruses circulate around…
A nongovernmental organization, Progressive Impact Organization for Community Development ( PRIMORG ) has partnered the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) to help raise awareness on the Continuous Voter Registration exercise in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The…
By Gabriel Ogunjobi – The Federal Government says its annual expenditure on fuel subsidy has risen to over N1.4 trillion while the monthly expenditure for susbidy is N23.999 billion. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, who gave the…
By MAYOWA ADENIRAN – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for increased and more quality investments in Africa’s health sector to achieve universal health coverage. The call is coming as the world celebrates 2018 World Health Day, on Saturday,…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has dragged the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, to court for defamation of character. Ike Abonyi, media aide to the PDP National Chairman, revealed this in…
Asoko Insight, Africa’s most comprehensive corporate information platform, has completed a $3.6 million Series A fundraising round, as it moves into the next stage of its pan-African expansion plan. Early shareholders, including North Base Media, CRE Venture Capital, Singularity Investments…
Change makers identify macro and micro trends, adapting to them proactively. WACSI, with its third strategic plan seeks to do just that. The new strategy, which was launched on 01 March 2018, dubbed “Enabling Social Transformation through a Robust and…
By UCHE HENRY – The Director General, Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO), Prof. Gloria Elemo has decried the increasing rate of death among women who cook with firewood. Apart from the bodily danger it constitutes for the users, Mrs Gloria…
Foremost environmental organisation in Africa, African Clean Up Initiative and over 100 enthusiastic environmental volunteers last week gathered for the sanitation project, ‘Keep Sururlere Clean’. The exercise took place in Ojuelegba ‘Under Bridge’ in Surulere Local Government, on Saturday, 31st…
