Kemi Busari The United Nations will next year hold an Informal Interactive Stakeholders Consultation for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016). The consultation which will hold on the 10th of February 2016 at…
Kemi Busari When the name Temitope Oke was called upon to receive award as Best Graduating Student of Economics Department at the 41st convocation ceremony of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), many thought it was the usual business. The mammoth crowd…
Abimbola Akosile writes on the need to step development down to all levels, after attending an intensive training of West African media practitioners on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are billed to kick off in Nigeria on January…
Kemi Busari The Federal Government of Nigeria has re-affirmed its commitment towards the realization of the CoP21 agreement and support for the developing nation who are the most vulnerable. Minister of Environment Amina Muhammed who noted that the outcome of…
Jude Chukwuemeka The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) earlier this week selected Nigeria as one of the three countries for the initial rollout of its new healthcare delivery programme in Africa. In a statement issued in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, the…
An article in ThisDay newspaper, several weeks ago described how climate change is already affecting food security in Nigeria. The article explained that the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) warned of an impending threat to food security in Nigeria…
Kemi Busari Minister for Environment, Amina Muhammed has emphasized the need for schools to incorporate climate change in their curriculum. The move she said will ‘localise’ the outcome of the CoP21 summit and engage the younger generation in understanding the…
CSNews Desk Attacks by Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, in northeastern Nigeria and neighbouring countries have forced more than one million children out of school, heightening the risk they will be abused, abducted or recruited by armed groups, the United…
NAN-H-9 The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, on Monday said that the Office of Civic Engagement would adopt appropriate strategies to increase trust between government and the people. Adebule spoke at the opening of a two-day retreat for…
By Oyebisi Babatunde Oluseyi, Executive Director, Nigeria Network of NGOs Just some few weeks of sleep or sleepless nights until the 2016 budget is passed, however from the President’s speech we have gotten a firmer picture of what the Federal…
