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The maiden edition of African Science Literacy Network`s science communication and journalism workshop focused on building the capacities of African scientists and journalists in communicating scientific research in public media is scheduled for September 9 and 10, in Abuja, Nigeria. The two-day intensive training workshop is part of Science Communication…

Action Aid, the international nonprofit dedicated to achieving social justice, gender equality and poverty eradication, Tuesday commenced a two-day mentoring session in Kano for a select group of Nigerian citizens on the use of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Act to request for information from public institutions. Passed into law…

The African Science Literacy Network aim to introduce scientists and journalists to different methods of engaging a wider audience with science as well as to pair scientists and journalists to support more accurate science communication to the general population. Deadline: August 19, 2019   Programme This will be an intensive…

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are veritable tools in the fight against corruption in Nigeria, says Yunusa Zakari Ya’u of the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), while delivering the keynote address at a campus journalism dialogue held Saturday at the Bayero University, Kano.   The dialogue which was…

Thanks to development Research Projects Centre’s Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE) project, supported by MacArthur Foundation, girls who have graduated secondary school but could not transit to higher levels have been empowered to start up community-based Early Childhood Development (ECD) schools in Kano and Jigawa…

 The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) in partnership with the Kano Emirate Council Committee on Health and Human Development (KECCoHD) last week hosted a group of northern traditional leaders to a regional conference on the theme: “The Roles of Traditional Institutions and Leaders on Healthcare Service Delivery and Girl…

The Kano Media Advocacy Group (KaMAG), a cluster of concerned Kano journalists dedicated to advocacy for accountability and good governance and improved service delivery, has called on the Governor of Kano State Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, to make good on promises he made on the occasion of his swearing-in for second…

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (UK-DFID) this week conducted the 2019 annual review for the UK-DFID-funded Girls Education Project Phase 3 (GEP3), in Kano state, beginning Monday and lasting through Friday. GEP3 is being implemented by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Federal Government of Nigeria and…

The Kano Emirate Council under the leadership of Emir of Kano His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II has proposed a new family law to address the rising cases of divorce, girl-child marriage and almajiranci in the state. The bill establishing the proposed law has already been forwarded to the Kano…

By creating a platform where young people can brainstorm and develop advocacy messages targeting policymakers, UNICEF Nigeria hopes to empower Nigerian youths to be able to effectively hold  government officials at all levels accountable for their campaign promises for education.     The fourth of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals…