The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have be urged to be good to their host communities and be law abiding in their struggle to earn a living and return to normal life. “We commend your…
On the sidelines of a recent advocacy visit to Lagos to highlight the need for both legislative and executive progress on the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, the Head of Transparency International in Nigeria and Executive Director of the Civil Society…
The UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) released a summary of civil society’s views on the repositioning of the UN development system. The views were gathered through a public consultation conducted in late 2017 at the request of the Executive Office…
Dr Olushayo Olu, WHO in Rwanda, describes the work of WHO to support the Government in providing a community-based health insurance scheme for people working in the informal sector.
WHO has issued new recommendations to establish global care standards for healthy pregnant women and reduce unnecessary medical interventions. Worldwide, an estimated 140 million births take place every year. Most of these occur without complications for women and their babies.…
Barring any last minute decision by the Supreme Court, Sierra Leone will hold presidential, legislative and local government elections on March 7. This will be the fourth elections since the end of the civil war in 2002 and the first…
The government of the Caribbean republic is investigating how the charity handled the case of some staff paying for sex workers in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. The Haiti government has suspended Oxfam GB from operating in the country for two…
Olivier Mukuta and his team were among the winners at the first “blockchain hackathon” co-organized by UN Women and Innovation Norway in July 2017. Muktua’s team developed ‘VipiCash’, an app that uses blockchain technology to enable secure money transfer among…
“I am sorry to say that if Buhari is re-elected in 2019, it will not only consume Tinubu, it will consume so many other people,” Ayu had said. This is indeed very scary and grisly. Let us however subject it…
