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Anti-NGO Bill: Global Rights Nigeria, other CSOs threaten showdown
As the National Assembly is to host a public hearing on the NGO Regulatory Bill on Wednesday and Thursday, Global Rights Nigeria and many other civil society and faith-based organisations have remained defiant in their campaign against the bill which they believe is ant-NGO and aimed at muzzling the civil…
Read More »#UHCDay2017: ONE, HERFON calls for the implementation of Nigeria’s National Health Act
As the world marks the 2017 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day on Tuesday under the theme “Health for All”, ONE in Nigeria and the Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON) has described Nigeria’s proposed 2018 public health budget as inadequate response to the country’s myriad of health challenges, calling on…
Read More »Day Emir of Kano campaigned for maternal, child health and girls education in Ajingi
The Emir of Kano, HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II, was recently in Ajingi LGA of Kano State where he sensitized his subjects on the critically-important issues of maternal and child healthcare, women’s rights including girl-child education The community sensitization outreach which was organized by the Kano Emirate Council Committee on Health…
Read More »GEMS4 hosts strength-based stakeholders learning workshop in Kano
The Growth and Employment in States (GEMS4) programme, seeking to improve income and employment opportunities within Nigeria’s wholesale and retail sector, particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable, has Thursday held strengths based approaches stakeholder learning workshop in Kano GEMS4 GEMS4, which being implemented by Coffey International Development is supported…
Read More »Actualizing SDGS: Meet some of Nigeria’s youth actors, by ‘Seyifunmi Adebote
‘Seyifunmi Adebote writes about young Nigerians whose recent efforts have pushed Nigeria steps forward in the quest for the successful actualisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The successful actualization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria, as in other countries of the world, lies to a great…
Read More »USAID, Akwa Ibom hold dissemination event for first-ever AIDS indicator survey
The findings of the first-ever Akwa Ibom AIDS Indicator Survey (AKAIS) were unveiled Monday in Uyo, Nigeria, during a dissemination meeting of HIV/AIDS stakeholders, hosted by the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The study, which was funded by…
Read More »Danish investors partner Nigeria to boost Nigeria’s food and agriculture sector
The Danish minister for environment and food, Esben Lunde Larsen on Monday led a business delegation to Abuja, Nigeria where 15 Danish companies signed bilateral agreements with Nigerian investors aimed at boosting the country’s food and agriculture sector a boost. By ‘Seyifunmi Adebote In attendance at the meeting was the…
Read More »OP-ED: African society’s subjugation of women hindering sustainable development on the continent, By Laetitia Mugerwa
Growing up in a society where being a woman means one must (on daily basis) fight to free themselves of men’s desires and unfair patriarchal decisions is traumatic and sad! Thus, there are painful struggles associated with being an African woman and trying to fit into a society ‘s definition…
Read More »PHOTONEWS: Launch of CISLAC Global office US and the SDG shadow report at the UN General Assembly 72
Sights and scenes from the launch of CISLAC Global office US and the launch of the SDG shadow report at the UN General Assembly 72
Read More »VIDEO: 2017 #KnowYourGoals Youth Roundtable on SDGs by African Newspage
A short video-photo documentary of the 2017 #KnowYourGoals Youth Roundtable on the SDGs by African Newspage held at the American Corner, Kano-Nigeria
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OP-ED| Why ODA is Not Solution to Africa’s Development Challenges, By Betty Wainaina
Overseas Development Assistance is not the solution to Africa’s development challenges; the future of …
