- The Road Out of Poverty Depends on Feeding Our Children Nutritious Food FirstMercy Lung’aho is Nutrition scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)The post The Road Out of Poverty Depends on Feeding Our Children Nutritious Food First appeared first on Inter Press Service.
- Despite Odds, Women Gain Stature in African PoliticsOnce in a while, Africa produces talented women politicians who, despite the odds, overcome the obstacles that impede their success in the political arena. Some of the African women who have shattered the glass ceiling include Liberia’s outgoing president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; former president of Malawi, Joyce Banda; Mauritius’s president, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim; and former interim […]
- Can the Kenyan Lion Kick High Enough to Be the South Korean Tiger of Africa?Dr Mary Kawar is Country Director of the ILO for Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Follow her on twitter: @mary_kawarMr Siddharth Chatterjee is the UN Resident Coordinator to Kenya. Follow him on twitter: @sidchat1The post Can the Kenyan Lion Kick High Enough to Be the South Korean Tiger of Africa? appeared first on Inter […]
- Hunger in Africa, Land of PlentyAnis Chowdhury, a former professor of economics at the University of Western Sydney, held senior United Nations positions during 2008–2015 in New York and Bangkok. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former economics professor, was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007. […]
- How to Change the Future of MigrationThe world is on the move. More people have been forced to flee their homes than at any time since the Second World War due to increased conflict and political instability, hunger, poverty, and an increase in extreme weather events linked to climate change. Such a short paragraph hardly depicts the growing drama of migration, […]
- Not True that Hunger Doesn’t Discriminate — It DoesIn a world where only 8 individuals – all of them men—possess as much as half of all the planet’s wealth, and it will take women 170 years to be paid as men are*, inequality appears to be a key feature of the current economic model. Now a new study reveals that there is also […]
- Forcing Displaced Nigerians May Worsen Humanitarian CrisisJan Egeland is Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council and a former United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator.The post Forcing Displaced Nigerians May Worsen Humanitarian Crisis appeared first on Inter Press Service.
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- Monkey Pox: Rep charges state govt to pay attention to health sector‘Tosin Ajuwon, Akure The Federal House of Representative on Monday called on states government to urgently draw attention to the health sector following the outbreak of the viral contagious Monkey pox disease. Hon. Bamidele Baderinwa, the Federal Lawmaker representing Idanre/Ifedore federal constituency in Ondo state made the call while speaking with journalists in Akure. Hon. […]
- Ebonyi undergraduates get N2m bursaryEgbe Ebere Blessing with agency report Ihietutu community in Ishiagu Ivo local government area of Ebonyi state on Monday disbursed N2 million bursary to students in various institutions of higher learning from the area. The Chairman, Ihietutu Development Union, Mr Paulinus Okoro, who disbursed the money, said the gesture was to encourage students of the […]
- We will not compromise nutrition for school children- Gov Jibrilla BindowTom Garba, Yola A two day workshop for the commencement of Federal government school feeding program for pupils of primary one to three, has began in Yola. Adamawa state governor, Sen Muhammad Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, who declared the workshop open at the Banquet Hall of Government House in Yola, directed all agencies and government departments […]
- IHS, Zain sign $165m tower portfolio agreemement…..as sub-Saharan Africa towers industry worth US$1.5bn in 4years Mobile communications infrastructure company, IHS, has entered into agreements to buy and leaseback the passive physical infrastructure of Kuwait-based mobile operator, KSCP (Zain), for US$165 million. According to IHS, which has operations in Europe, Middle East, and in Africa, the transaction will result in the formation […]
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Vanguard News
- Younger people will see hope that they have a career in front of them – Omoigui-OkauruThe Federal Government may try the embattled leader of the proscribed Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, in absentia, Vanguard learnt on Monday. The post Younger people will see hope that they have a career in front of them – Omoigui-Okauru appeared first on Vanguard News.
- NGO undertakes to create 124 entrepreneurs in A’Ibom annuallyUYO — A nongovernmental organization under the aegis of ‘Alert Nigeria’ has concluded plans to produce 124 young entrepreneurs and leaders annually across the 31 Local Government Areas of Akwa Ibom State to execute 124 grassroots development projects in their respective communities. The post NGO undertakes to create 124 entrepreneurs in A’Ibom annually appeared first […]
- PDP, the only political party in Enugu State —RepsThe member representing Nkanu East/West Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Chukwuemeka Ujam, has declared that no other political party exists in Enugu State except the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The post PDP, the only political party in Enugu State —Reps appeared first on Vanguard News.
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