‘Supporting Women’s Increased Access to Family Planning Through Pharmacies and Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors’
Federal Government Establishes Forest Guards to Reclaim National Forests
In a bold move to strengthen national security and reclaim Nigeria’s forest reserves from criminal elements, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of a specialized Forest Guard Unit and the immediate commencement of its recruitment. The initiative targets…
Education not an expenditure, but a vital investment – UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that education, from pre-school to tertiary level, should not be seen as an expenditure, but as a vital investment. Ms Christian Munduate, UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, made the assertion at the launching of…
USAID’s Demise Threatens a Vital Health and Climate Solution in Africa
A funding stoppage hurts efforts to phase out polluting home cookstoves and replace them with cleaner alternatives. The Trump administration’s gutting of the US Agency for International Development, with 80% of its programs now canceled, is a blow for clean…
LAGOS Launches Advocacy Project To Boost PHC, Maternal and Child Health Service Delivery
Projects Funded by Gates Foundation, to Run till 2028 EngenderHealth to Co-implement Initiative Targeting RMNCAH+N Improvement In a major stride toward improving health outcomes in Lagos, the Lagos State Government and EngenderHealth, a global reproductive health organization, on Monday…
New Report Exposes Global Financing of Unjust Industrial Agriculture Practices – Seeks Investment for Agroecology in Africa
Follow the money, find the injustice: Industrial agriculture is bankrolled, agroecology is starved. In March 2025, AFSA convened over 100 food systems actors from across Africa in Nairobi to expose how industrial agriculture is bankrolled by global financial systems…
Why Nigeria Needs Transport Policy That Meets Interest – Expert
The Chairman/Chief Consultant, Global Transport Policy (GTP), Dr Oluwasegun Musa, on Monday in Lagos, emphasised the need for a transport policy which would meet Nigeria’s interest. Musa made the call at a news conference to herald the second edition of…
Gaza: Starvation Looms for One in Five People, Say Food Security Experts
UN News : All 25 bakeries supported by the UN World Food Programme have been closed for weeks as stocks of wheat flour and cooking fuel ran out. Gazans remain at “critical risk of famine,” UN-backed food security experts…
NGO Wants More Awareness on Improved Cassava Seeds
The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), a non-governmental organisation, has called on social media influencers in Benue and Nasarawa States to create more awareness on the availability of improved disease-free cassava seeds. SAA made the call in Makurdi at the Building…
US and China Agree to Slash Tariffs for 90 days
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer address the media after trade talks with China in Geneva, Switzerland, May 11, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Reuters) Both Washington and Beijing said they will continue discussions on…