UN Development Programme (UNDP) has highlighted climate action opportunities in Africa, in its new report on Africa Investment Climate Opportunities.
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The Appeal Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed an application filed suspended by DCP Abba Kyari requesting that the unlawful drug deal charge against him be dropped.
One is flabbergasted to read or listen to some occupants pretending to be more Lagos(ians) than the indigenes claiming the protectorship of the former Colony and capital of Nigeria, and doing so with hypocritical motives to profile some fellow Nigerians for stigma. It is unacceptably wrong. By Abanikanda Olumoro (UK) They are using the “ebi npawa” mantra that is now rampant in the land to blackmail the criers, who are truly hungry but will not be expected to complain. They say there is hunger in the land and, truly so, they are attestably hungry, poverty afflicted and, it is said…
ASHENEWS reports that the Jigawa State Government has inaugurated Organising Committee for the National Orphans Qur’anic Recitation Competition.
ASHENEWS reports that the Niger State governor, Mohammed Bago says that youth in the state will not participate in the proposed August 1-10 nationwide protest against economic hardship.
The National Council on Nutrition (NCN) has approved a series of new measures aimed at tackling malnutrition and food insecurity across Nigeria including the creation of a national nutrition dashboard.
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have welcomed the recent ruling of the Supreme Court on Local Government autonomy.
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the National Population Commission (NPC), has incorporated the National Identification Number (NIN) into digital birth registration (e-birth registration) in Nigeria. It also says that the new e-birth registration will give a child an identity and the opportunity to be a Nigerian citizen. UNICEF Child Protection Specialist, Mr Denis Onoise, stated these in an interview in Lagos, on the sideline of a two-day media dialogue on e-birth registration in the South-West, held in Lagos. The media dialogue was organised by UNICEF, in collaboration with the Lagos Ministry of Youth and Social Development and…
A U.S.-based Nigerian don, Prof. Abiodun Raufu, has called on President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in the agricultural sector and fashion out an innovative policy that would ensure food sufficiency in Nigeria.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has set aside new rules for students’ matriculation in tertiary institutions.