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“Youth-responsive budgeting indispensable for achieving youth inclusion in Nigeria”
Youth-responsive budgeting is indispensable, if Nigeria is truly desirous of reducing inequality and harnessing the enormous potentials that exist in its vast youth population, says Ibrahim Faruk, senior programmes officer at the Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA), Nigeria’s leading youth-focused nonprofit. Faruk, who was speaking at a…
Read More »MNCH2: Leveraging community structures for improved demand, uptake for RMNCH services in Kano
Maternal and neonatal mortality remains a huge challenge in the quest for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in northern Nigeria and particularly in Kano state, which accounts for a significant percentage of the high indices of maternal mortality in Nigeria. Amongst others, this sad development is a result of low…
Read More »Passage of PIB bills: CISLAC commends Nigeria’s House of Reps, calls for the passage of outstanding PIG Bills
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has commended Nigeria’s House of Representatives for the recent passage of the “much awaited Petroleum Industry and Governance Bill (PIGB)”. This was contained in a statement signed by Auwal Ibrahim Rafsanjani, executive director of CISLAC and made available to newsmen in Abuja on…
Read More »SUCCESS STORY: Kano State Launches Health Sector Task Shifting & Sharing Policy (TSSP)
The Executive Governor of Kano State His Excellency (Dr) Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on Sunday November 5, 2017, formally launched the Kano State Health Sector Task Shifting & Sharing Policy (TSSP) in a ceremony that took place at the Kano State Government House and was attended by key stakeholders in the…
Read More »OGP and the quest for achieving SDGs in Nigeria
If effectively implemented, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) process will make governance more participatory, transparent and accountable in African countries like Nigeria as enshrined in Goal 16 of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Launched in September 2011 by 8 countries of the world and guided by the…
Read More »‘Nigeria’s political terrain discouraging youth participation in governance’
Nigeria’s political terrain has been described as discouraging to youth’s participation in governance processes hence the low participation of Nigerian youth in political governance, even though thy constitute almost half of the country’s over 180 million population, says Murtala Adogi Mohammed, a youth development specialist. Mohammed who was one of…
Read More »CISLAC lauds renovation of dilapidated Dausara healthcare facility
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has commended the on-going effort by the Kano State Government in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to renovate the dilapidated Dausara primary healthcare (PHC) facility, in Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano state, which had for a long time suffered neglect,…
Read More »INVESTIGATION | Out of school children: Nigeria’s ticking time-bomb
Through the eyes of out of school children, this piece investigates the menace of out-of-school children in northern Nigeria looking at the looming socio-economic and security consequences of the challenge in Africa’s most populous nation Walking shoulder to shoulder along the well-paved street as the dry harmattan wind blows…
Read More »PHOTO NEWS: Nigerian Youth SDGs Network #SDGsStory event
Last week Wednesday, the Nigerian Youth SDGs Network hosted a youth SDG story event in Abuja, Nigeria on the theme: “Youth Impact Stories on the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria.” The event which was aimed at creating a platform for the sharing of knowledge, experience and work done on the…
Read More »‘Community action vital for achieving SDGs in Nigeria’
Community action has the potential to help Nigeria achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says Muhammad Bello Shitu, a professor of community development and innovation diffusion and global vice president of the UK-based International Association for Community Development (IACD). Shitu made the assertion while guest speaking at the first-ever…
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Afreximbank: From Three Decades of Resilient Impact to a Future of Promise
The 32nd Annual Meetings of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), held June 25 – …
