By Innocent Onoh | …aims to plant 1 Million trees in 6 African countries through the partnership Restoring Nigerians forest cover to at least 25 percent by 2047, an ambitious project that started in 2017, has been boosted with the…
Sterling One Foundation, in collaboration with Live Abundantly and the Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, has officially launched the 2023 edition of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria. The 16 Days of Activism for No…
Sterling One Foundation in collaboration with Whitefield Foundation and its parent organisation, Sterling Bank has launched Project Ladder to offer support for victims whose farms were affected by the floods. The Foundation which is the CSR arm of Sterling Bank…
Aminu Adamu, WikkiTimes | Barely one week before Nigeria’s general election, residents of rural communities in Zamfara State still live between hope and fear as insecurity that has over the years rendered thousands homeless threatens peaceful polls. “Just a few…
With Nigeria’s election campaigns in full swing ahead of February’s vote, fact-checkers in the country say they are working together to counter cases of disinformation. For journalist Opeyemi Kehinde, the first task each day is searching the internet, television programs,…
By Eunice Afolabi | The scourge of misinformation and disinformation and how it can be curbed ahead of the nation’s 2023 general elections was the discourse at The Nigerian Fact-checkers Coalition conference on Tuesday, in Abuja, The conference, tagged ‘Curbing…
Dino Melaye, spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign organisation, in an interview on Channels Television, made claims about late Gani Fawehinmi’s 2003 presidential votes. On August 12, Melaye was a guest on Politics Today, a live interview programme on…
By Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi, Obafemi Awolowo University | Demographic data are important for national development. They are useful in sectoral planning and should influence the direction of government priorities. A youthful population like Nigeria requires accurate information on characteristics like…
“More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency said in a new report launched on Wednesday. “ The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2020, the Food…
Notoriety is attained through exclusivity; such is the case for the exclusive MVP list for EndSARS supporters. Already there are whispers of frozen bank accounts and no-fly lists. And now, a law suit. In other news, two businesses, private and public, are defying covid-related downturns,…
