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As the 2018 World Health Assembly begins Monday in Geneva, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, to prioritize investment of domestic resources in his country’s public health system towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa’s most populous nation. This was contained…

On April 1, 2001, heads of states of African Union countries met and pledged to commit, at least, 15% of their annual national budgets to the public health sector. While the duo of Rwanda and South Africa have attained this praiseworthy target, it’s disappointing and dissatisfying that the purported Giant…

The maiden edition of the Nigeria Tomato Investment Roundtable was held recently in Dutse, Jigawa State under the theme: “Expanding Pathways for Investment in the Tomato Value Chain.”  The event was hosted by the Jigawa State Government in collaboration with TechnoServe and with the support of Rockefeller Foundation and the…

Partners West Africa Nigeria’s Greater Access to Defense and Justice Project (GADJET) is a perfect response to the travails of poor and indigent people whose pursuit for legal redress is always either marred by long delays or never become a reality, altogether.   Access to justice for indigent people in…

People With Disability (PWDs) in Kano State have presented an award of honour to the 40 members of the Kano State House of Assembly, over the successful passage of the state’s People Living With Disability Amendment Bill 2018, in a ceremony held last week Wednesday at the assembly’s complex in…

The Kano Budget Working Group (KBWG) has called for an upward review of the budgetary allocation to the water and agriculture sector sectors in the proposed 2018 budget, in alliance with the Maputo declaration in which African countries including Nigeria pledged to commit up to 10% of their annual budgets…

  On a certain day in January this year, I left home for work as usual. The lingering fuel scarcity had not completely abated, and therefore what most residents of the Benin City metropolis did to avoid the cut-throat fares that commercial taxi and bus drivers ask, for long and…

In commemoration of the 2018 World Malaria Day, and as part of its effort towards addressing local community challenges, the Kano Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, Wednesday donated a set of mosquito repellent coils to the Kano Children’s Home, an orphanage. “The Kano Hub of Global…

In furtherance of its mission of empowering women in business, the Nigeria chapter of the Pan African nonprofit New Faces New Voices (NFNV), in partnership with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) distributed industrial equipment to women entrepreneurs.  In continuation of its effort of empowering women…