By Abujah Racheal, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has long struggled with a critical healthcare challenge—dependence on imported vaccines. Huge population comes with the need to meet huge vaccine needs. Among the vaccine-preventable diseases are polio, cholera, diphtheria, Human papillomavirus, influenza, yellow fever, tetanus, amongContinue Reading
By Martha Agas, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Africa is home to 30 per cent of the world`s minerals reserves. When fully harnessed, these resources can play a critical role in the continent`s development story and in the ongoing energy transition. For instance, gold is a major component of Ghana’sContinue Reading
Achieving sustainable climate policies in Nigeria by ‘voting for climate’ By Oboh Linus, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Climate change issue is now at the centre of global politics. In the last decades it has shaped public discourses as global leaders strive to chisel out policies that would birth sustainableContinue Reading
Why Nigerians should explore Compressed Natural Gas By Ismail Abdulaziz, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) At the inception of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, the vexatious issue of fuel subsidy regime was ended to address the huge infrastructure development gap created by the use of funds to power theContinue Reading
Tackling malnutrition via capacity building for stakeholders By Joy Odigie News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) “I couldn’t feed my three children when my husband abandoned me five years ago. My first child was about nine years old then, while my two other children were about four and two years respectively’’.Continue Reading
The Africans Rising: Challenges and desire for borderless Africa By Emmanuel Mogbede, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Approximately 1,500 activists from across African continent and the Diaspora, will converge on Accra, both in person and virtually, for the 2nd All-African Movements Assembly (AAMA) scheduled to hold from Aug.Continue Reading
By Philip Yatai, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Shortly after assuming office as FCT minister on Aug. 21, 2023, Mr Nyesom Wike announced short, medium, and long-term plans to restore the Abuja Master Plan. Wike, along with FCT minister of state Mariya Mahmoud, explained that overhauling the FCT would repositionContinue Reading
By Emmanuella Anokam, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) When the construction of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery Limited began in 2016, Nigerians were upbeat that it will crash the high price of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as fuel and also stop its importation. The refinery, in size of nearlyContinue Reading
By Funmilayo Adeyemi, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The event played out like a rowdy parliamentary session, though, without a gavel to punctuate ruling or proclamation on a contentious educational issue. The occasion was a policy meeting, organised by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently in Abuja, which hadContinue Reading
An analysis by Salif Atojoko, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The three-day visit of President Bola Tinubu to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, has come and gone, but the visit has left in its wake salient points for conversations on the benefits or otherwise. As some are want to believe, Nigeria hasContinue Reading
