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The Connected Development, CODE), a non-profit organisation has disclosed that Osun State Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) are short-staffed and lack

The symposium, which is hosted by Osasu Show Foundation in collaboration with Connected Development (CODE), is to hold on...

Advertisement Hamzat Lawal, founder of CODE, said the partnership between the two civic organisations will promote proper documentation of COVID-19 funds and ensure greater transparency and accountability. Lawal said this at the launch of the COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP) website in Abuja, on Monday. “Our conversation here today is very vital, not only because of COVID-19, but because of the progressive work that BudgIT and Connected Development has done to account f...

Carrington Fellows challenge young Nigerians to participate in politics July 03 Advertisement CYFI, which was set up to promote civil liberty, good governance, public health, education and entrepreneurship,  recently launched its national campaign for young people to get their permanent voter cards ( Olusola Owonikoko, the president of Carrington Fellowship alumni association, said “CYFI brings together Nigerian youth of exceptional skills and experience to design and implement projects that...

By Angela Atabo Abuja, June 11, 2021 The Connected Development (CODE) a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) says it tracked N193 billion spent on government projects across the country in 2020, towards ensuring accountability. Mr Hamzat Lawal, Chief Executive, CODE and founder, Follow The Money, said this at the launch

Despite widespread anger over the ban on Twitter use in the country, indications emerged, yesterday, that the Federal Government is not ready to shift grounds...

By Olawale Ajimotokan The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Muhammad Musa Bello, has stated that the FCT Administration would require N2.6 billion to replace 25,462 assets that were vandalised in the territory. He disclosed this yesterday at the Town Hall meeting on the protection of public infrastructure organised in Abuja by the Ministry of Information and Culture. Bello made the revelation just as the Minister of Transportion, Rotimi Amaechi, said the National Assembly should conside...

“It is shameful that in its desperate bid and determination to destroy the largest democracy in Africa,” they said

x According to the most recent estimates, from 2016, of both deaths per age group and overall population size, 2.8% of children under five died in that year. The United Nations estimated that in 2019 the mortality rate for Nigerian children under five was 117.2 per 1,000 live births, with mortality rates for boys higher than for girls. Public health experts reiterated that the under-five mortality rate in Nigeria was still unacceptably high, because of a weak...

• Gunmen invade police station in Abia, Akwa Ibom, kill five officers • Police begin the search for stolen AK-47 rifles in Rivers • Ammunition-laden truck involved in a lone accident in Anambra After what appears a lull in Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) activism in the country, a coalition of 127 CSOs under the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat, yesterday, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating insecurity...