Public finance-focused civic-tech organization BudgIT has announced a six-month, highly competitive Civic-Tech Media Fellowship. The fellowship which includes training on Data Journalism, Investigative reporting, Desk research and provide up-to-date knowledge on the intersection between journalism, civil society and new media…
Iran will not issue visas to Americans as long as the U. S. refuses to issue visas to Iranians, Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said in Tehran on Tuesday. Tehran said it was unperturbed by the renewed ban on Iranian…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged the international community to take action to avert famine in Somalia where a biting drought has left three million people going hungry. Somalia is facing its third famine in the 25 years…
Six women were arrested by the police in conjunction with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), for allegedly selling mint naira notes in Lagos. The women were allegedly selling the notes to people going to parties to ‘spray’ against CBN…
No fewer than 2,252 rapes cases were reported at the Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre in two years and seven months. According to the Centre Manager, Juliet Olumuyiwa-Rufai, the centre recorded less than 20 convictions in all the cases. Rufai…
In spite of the financial loss suffered by some Nigerians who participated in the failed Ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM) in 2016, Twinkas, a similar scheme is making wave among many Nigerians. Investigation by the News Agency of Nigeria…
The Federal Government has formally announced the closure of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, beginning from 12 a.m.Wednesday. This was announced by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, at a world press conference Monday in Abuja. The airport will…
As a major aspect of its key drive to guarantee that broadcast communications purchasers in Nigeria are enabled and secured, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has put aside Wednesday March 15, 2017 to signal off the 2017 NCC Year of…
Clean-up Isolo (Green ValentineClean-up Special) Projectis a concept from the Clean-up Nigeria Project to celebrate the season of love; it’s an offshoot of February being the month of love and African Clean-up Initiative in her usual practice of engaging communities…
To supplement its N7 billion Surgical and Diagnostic Center (SDC) at present under development, the Dangote Foundation (www.dangote.com) has finished up the redesigns of a few areas of the Murtala Muhammed Specialists’ Hospital, Kano a project for which over N200 million…
