Nigeria joins G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
New partnership will leverage private-sector investment and policy reform to reinforce Nigeria’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda
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Nigeria to host African Business Women’s Advocacy Forum: Women’s Leade...
LAGOS, Nigeria, May 20, 2013 – Vital Voices Global Partnership and Women in Management, Business, and Public Service (WIMBIZ) today announced the hosting of the Supporting Public Advocacy for R...
MasterCard to power Nigerian Identity Card Program
13 Million Cards to be issued first, in largest card rollout of its kind in Africa
Profile: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Nigeria’s Finance Minister
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala served as Managing Director of The World Bank Group since December 1, 2007 until August 2011. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian national, founded NOI-Gallup polls, an indigenous N...
Africa has lost an icon – Chinua Achebe is dead
One of the world’s most prolific writers has passed away today. It is reported that Chinua Achebe died after a brief illness. His agent, Andrew Wylie. said “He was a beloved husband, father, u...
Jackie Appiah wins Best Actress Award in a Drama at the Africa Magic V...
One of Africa’s top actresses, the beautiful and extraordinarily talented Ghanaian born Jackie Appiah, has won the Best Actress Award in a Drama at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA...
Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom State honours ECOWAS
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 15, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom State is building an International Conference Centre in Uyo the State capital, whose Main Hall will be named aft...
Atlantic Energy: How indigenous companies are transforming the Nigeria...
LAGOS, Nigeria, March 6, 2013 – Atlantic Energy (http://www.atlanticenergy.com) was a platinum sponsor at the recently concluded 13th Nigerian Oil and Gas conference, one of Africa’s largest oi...
Bloomberg Television announces partnership with Nigeria’s Optima...
This partnership will create a new entity – Bloomberg Television Africa
Tribute to an outstanding and legendary African Actor, Justus Esiri ha...
The world has lost an icon. An outstanding actor has passed away leaving a proud legacy difficult to emulate. Nigerian actor, Justus Esiri not only made an impact in the African film industry, he was...
Nigeria receives approval for additional CIF $50 million to bolster en...
WASHINGTON, February 22, 2013 – The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) (http://www.afdb.org) has announced an agreement to provide Nigeria with US $50 million to support an African Development Bank...
Profile: Chinua Achebe – one of the world’s most original ...
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe (born 16 November 1930) popularly known as Chinua Achebe, poet and novelist, is one of the most important living African writers. He is also considered one of the most orig...
OSIWA’s partnership with Integrity Nigeria yields new tool to combat c...
The Open Society Initiative of West Africa (OSIWA) say its strategy to develop and implement Strong governance institutions, processes and structures that are transparent, accountable, intolerant of ...
Nigeria to review Switzerland’s human rights record amidst risin...
Nigeria is one of three states (called the Troika) tasked by the 47 member-states of the UN Human Rights Council to examine Switzerland’s second report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the h...
Wole Soyinka calls for armed intervention against terrorist group Boko...
UNITED NATIONS, Becky Bergdahl - (IPS) - On the International Day of Peace, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka visited the United Nations – and called for armed intervention against the terrorist group...
Nigerians involved in forging and fraudulently obtaining Sierra Leone ...
The Sierra Leone Embassy in Senegal has seized and confiscated a total of over 15 Sierra Leone government documents, including among others, passports, birth certificates, residential permits fraudul...