Better days are here for the people of Enugu State come 2019 gubernatorial election, as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Senator Ayogu Eze has disclosed a 12-point manifesto to journalists and party members in Enugu on Saturday. The 26-page document, bound in glossy booklet illustrated with colorful info-graphics, is titled “A New Dawn”, ...

Telecommunications subscribers are unhappy with the mobile network operators over slow Internet connections, especially the fourth generation long term evolution (4GLTE) offerings in Nigeria. Various complaints have greeted the 4G LTE services across Nigeria. From Lagos to Abuja, Enugu to Port Harcourt, and Kano to Katsina, as monitored by The Guardian the story remains, especially for service providers, which claimed ...

Nigerian media organizations are finally making attempts to address the damning issue of fake news Nigeria. 16 Nigerian news organisations have joined forces to launch CrossCheck Nigeria, a new platform for verifying news on the internet. A viral post published by a spoof account of the Al Jazeera news organisation has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Africa ...

Universal Health Coverage Day on 12 December is the annual rallying point for the growing movement for health for all. It marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ historic and unanimous endorsement of universal health coverage in 2012.” –UHC Day Movement On Wednesday 12th December 2018, six years after the United Nations unanimously endorsed universal health coverage, as part of ...

Joint Action Civil Society Coalition, a group of civil society organisations in Nigeria have joined forces towards ensuring that the lives of the Nigerian citizens are adequately shielded and insulted from any unforeseen pre-elections, during and post-election violence come 2019 elections. This was made known at a Press Conference organised by the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition on Thursday in ...

Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) has called on the political leaders, aspirants and other stakeholders to embrace transparency and accountability as their major hallmark while occupying public offices, and particularly towards 2019 electioneering. This call was made at one-day Forum tagged “Nigeria Governors Forum” on Deepening Democracy, Transparency and Accountability in the Electoral Process in Nigeria  organized by CVL ...

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday assured the Nigeria police that his administration will continue to give attention to both their welfare and their operational needs with a view to restoring its lost primacy in the internal security framework of the country. The President gave the assurance when he granted audience to members of the Nigeria Police Service Commission and the leadership ...

Anti-poverty campaigner, ActionAid Nigeria, has called on Nigerian authorities to investigate Nigerians whose name appeared in the #PanamaPapers. In a statement signed on Thursday by its policy and campaign director, Tunde Aremu, the agency said “the federal government owes Nigerians and the nation the responsibility of investigating Nigerians mentioned in the new revelations on individuals and corporates operating secretive offshore ...

Federal Government has earmarked N500 billion for poverty alleviation through Social Investment Programme across the 36 states of the federation. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo dropped the hint at the Emir of Dutse’s palace, adding that the programme include the N-Power, Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, Home Grown School Feeding among others, meant to assist petty traders, university graduates, NCE holders and ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has introduced preventive and precautionary measures to curtail the sudden yellow fever outbreak in the country. Following the report of an outbreak of fever of unknown origin in four Local Government Areas in Edo state, the state public health team commenced investigation. On the 21st of November 2018, nine cases tested positive for yellow fever. ...