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The Dispute Resolution and Development Initiative formerly known as Democratic Action Group (DAG) last week hosted series of community sensitization meetings on anti-corruption across the three emirates of Jigawa state: Hadejia, Gumel and Ringim.   The townhall meetings were organised by DAG in collaboration of with Action Aid Nigeria under…

In Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country, thousands languish in prison without trials. This analysis examines the various ways Nigeria’s criminal justice act is being violated leading to the perpetuation of awaiting trials in prison custody.   If future events could be pre-determined, 34-year-old Chris Chom wouldn’t have made any effort…

The expansion of the mandate of the Kano State Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) Committee for Tuberculosis to also cover HIV/AIDS, was jointly agreed upon by stakeholders in the state and USAID’s Health Policy Plus (HP+) project     Kano is the Nigerian state with highest burden of Tuberculosis (TB) ,…

The Nigeria chapter of the New Faces New Voices (NFNV) Women in Finance Network, one of the Pan-African women networks under the Graça Machel Trust (GMT), which focuses on expanding the role and influence of African women in the financial sector, is set to host its maiden Women in Business,…

Health experts and civil society organizations working under the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale (PACFaH@Scale) in collaboration with the Kaduna State University (KASU) and the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Kaduna, have asked Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufa’i to prioritize the full implementation of the Primary…

The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly (KNSHoA) Right Honorable Abdulaziz Gafasa has stated the 9th state assembly’s commitment to improve the effectiveness of its statutory legislative oversight over the executive arm of the state government’s business and projects. “Let us objectively scrutinize our budgeting system and processes…

The 32nd annual international biotechnology conference of the Biotechnology Society of Nigeria (BSN) is currently taking place in Ibadan, Nigeria under the theme: “Biotechnology to Enhance Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa.” The event was keynoted by the Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Yemi Akinbamijo,…

The Nigerian political space has been described as an unequal playing field for men and women, with the latter being greatly underrepresented, which is a pointer to the many challenges women face in their quest to actively participate in politics, says Dr Abdulmalik Auwal of the department of political science…

In commemoration of the 2019 International Youths Day, the Nigerian Youth Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Network, a coalition of youth-led civil society organizations focused on localizing the SDGs in Nigeria, is this weekend hosting series of nationwide youths dialogue on the theme: ‘Amplifying Youth Voices for the SDGs,’ across 21…

The Executive Governor of Kano State His Excellency Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has expressed his administration’s readiness to fully operationalize the provisions of the Primary Health Care Under-One-Roof (PHCUOR) policy in Kano state, which is aimed at reducing prevalent fragmentation in the delivery of primary health care services at state level…