•Pregnant women in IDP camp Borno traditional rulers, lawyers and government officials have decried alleged rampant child pregnancy and unsafe abortions in Internally Displaced (IDP) camps in Maiduguri, Borno. This was revealed at a two-day stakeholders’ dialogue, organised by the Grassroots Researchers Association (GRA) with the support of We...
•German Ambassador to Nigeria, Annett Günther Human rights advocates, legal practitioners, and international partners have urged the federal government to end the death penalty, as over 3,500 inmates remain on death row. The stakeholders made the call during an event marking the 2025 International Day Against the Death Penalty in Abuja, co-org...
•Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa The directive by the federal government for full transition of all examinations conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), from paper to Computer Based Examinations by 2026 has attracted div...
•Palm fruits The price of palm oil in Nigeria is reaching record highs, and stakeholders say the reasons are far more complex than seasonal trends. At the heart of the issue are foreign policy shifts in Indonesia, soaring global demand, a weakening naira, and chronic underinvestment in Nigeria’s domestic production, reports Daily Independen...
•Abortion Stakeholders, including medical doctors, lawyers, gynaecologists and policymakers have demanded a more pragmatic approach including increased awareness, strong legal backing, and improved access to reproductive health services to tackle the menace of unsafe abortion among other gender-based violence. The call was made in Abeokuta yes...
Some stakeholders in the education sector have expressed concerns about the plan of the federal government to ensure full transition from paper-pencil mode to full Computer-Based Testing for all examinations conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examin...
•Sam Anyanwu A group of senior party stakeholders under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party Concerned Stakeholders (PCS) has issued a stern warning to the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), calling for an immediate end to what it describes as a “sustained and unjustified” crisis on the secretaryship of the party. In [&hel...
•WAEC candidates The pronouncement by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, that the conduct of the Senior Secondary School Examinations by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC and the National Examinations Council, NECO, will now be computer-based as from next year, may have to be reviewed, going by opinions by critical stakehold...
•Tinubu and terrorists Amid escalating insecurity across the country, experts and stakeholders have urged the Senate to abandon its proposed two-day national security summit, calling instead for decisive action to address the crisis. They also called on President Bola Tinubu to rejig his security team citing the military’s “embarrassing helple...
A cross-section of stakeholders attending a one-day Office of the Auditor General for the Federation (OAUGF) Stakeholders’ Engagement Workshop has called on the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, to speedily pass the Audit Service Bill, which has been pending at the assembly for years. They said Nigeria is the only country in Africa t...
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