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2018 budget: YIAGA Africa lauds increased funding for women, urge monitoring
The Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA Africa) has lauded the increase in budgetary allocations specifically targeting women and girls in the 2018 appropriation bill, urging for improved monitoring and evaluation of such allocations. This was the outcome of the 2018 Budget Gender Review conducted by YIAGA Africa’s…
Read More »Day OCCEN hosted town-hall meeting on OGP in Kaduna
The Organization for Community Civic Engagement’s Kaduna town-hall meeting was attended by diverse civil society, youth and citizens groups and featured passionate discussions about the Open Government Partnership (OGP) process Shortly after Nigeria joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP) process in 2016, Kaduna state also joined the process making it…
Read More »ENGINE II programme launched in Kano
The second phase of the UK-Department for International Development (DFID’)-funded Educating Nigerian Girls In New Enterprise (ENGINE) programme which will be implemented in Kano State by Mercy Corps in collaboration with the Society For Women Development and Empowerment of Nigeria (SWoDEN), was launched Tuesday in Kano. The first phase of…
Read More »2018 World NGO Day: Nonprofit lauds NGOs contribution to global development
In commemoration of 2018 World NGOs Day, the African Centre for Leadership Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) has commended NGOs across the globe for their “immense contribution to the growth and development of countries around the world”. Since 2014, February 27 of every year is commemorated as World NGO…
Read More »Nigerian Youth SDGs Network hosts session at Lagos Social Media Week
The Nigerian Youth SDGs Network will Friday (10:30AM and 11:30AM) host a session on the theme Social Media as a Tool to Achieve the 2030 Agenda at the ongoing 6th Social Media Week Lagos scheduled for February 26 to March 2 at Landmark Center, Lagos, Nigeria. The Nigerian Youth SDGs…
Read More »2019 Nigerian elections: Jega chairs YIAGA Africa’s maiden election dialogue series
As Nigeria prepares for the forthcoming general elections billed for February 2019, immediate past chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega will chair the maiden edition of YIAGA Africa’s WatchingTheVote Election Dialogue Series scheduled for tomorrow in Abuja. YIAGA’s WatchingTheVote Election Dialogue Series is aimed at…
Read More »Shugabanchi: Harnessing the power of radio drama for anti-corruption campaign in northern Nigeria
Shugabanchi, a 156-episode on-location recorded radio drama series is exploring the art of subliminal messaging to simultaneously entertain the public and in the course of doing so, educate them on the dangers of corruption Corruption has been described as the greatest bane militating against Nigeria’s development, thus, since the country’s…
Read More »#NotTooYoungToRun movement urges Buhari to assent to Age Reduction Bill
The #NotTooYoungToRun movement has called on Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the Age Reduction Bill for aspirants into elective political offices saying that, should Buhari delay or declines assent to the bill, the National Assembly should veto the President. It would be recalled that on February 15, 2018,…
Read More »How Kano CSOs mobilized to get state’s 2018 health budget pushed to 13%
The efforts of civil society organisations in Kano state led to successful increase in the state’s 2018 health budget from less than 10% to over 13%, which saw the state edged closer to achieving the 15% target of the 2001 Abuja Declaration Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is one of…
Read More »MPDSR: Taming Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in Rural Kano
Lack of access to quality healthcare services for pregnant women, newborns and children as a result of poor service delivery is blamed for the high rate of maternal mortality in Northern Nigeria including Kano State. Amongst others, diseases like severe anemia, eclampsia, and bleeding are responsible for majority of maternal…
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