@haceyhealth – “Building conversations around preventing and responding to sexual violence” Symposium responding to sexual violence and the launch of mysalvus.org platform. Salvus (meaning safe) is a web-based platform developed to facilitate safe and confidential reporting of sexual violence incidents and provide…
Nigeria: A nation hanging by the balance By Akinleye Segun The noises of a looming war on the global scene reached its highest crescendo when the sadistic short emperor with the crew cut from North Korea, who seem hell bent…
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation has attributed the illegal shipment of 25,750 metric tons of genetically modified maize worth an estimated $3.7 million into Nigeria to the attitude of the federal government towards genetically modified foods. Nnimmo Bassey, the group’s director, said…
Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, said the world was moving away from oil, and predicted that it would no longer be an income resource in 10 years’ time. Kachikwu said this in Abuja on Thursday while…
Following their emergency meeting with the Nigerian army’s GOC, 82 Division, Enugu, Major General, Abubakar Adamu, the South-East governors have, Friday evening, proscribed the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in the region. The governors also appealed with…
A coalition of some 35 civil society organisations has written to several international bodies including the African Union and the United Nations Human Rights Commission over the recent internet shutdown in Togo. Signatories to the letter include Paradigm Initiative, Reporters Without Border, World…
Agency report Popular artiste, Innocent Idibia also known as “2Face’’ on Thursday inaugurated “Vote Not Fight, Election No Be War” campaign to promote peaceful governorship election in Anambra on November 18. The campaign is a collaboration of 2Face Idibia Foundation,…
Emirates Airlines will return to the Abuja route on November 1, 2017 after vacating it for one year. The Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, disclosed this in a series of tweets via his Twitter handle @hadisirika. He tweeted…
President Muhammadu Buhari departs Abuja Sunday for New York, to join other world leaders at the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 72). The high point of the President’s visit will be his participation in the General…
In Agbobloshie, Ghana, for instance, a circular economy — a continuous process of creating value while limiting impact on the planet — is defying the critics. “The most toxic place on earth”, Agbobloshie, is an urban-scale open-air manufactory. Youthful creativity…
