By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – In a bid to strengthen access to timely and affordable healthcare for vulnerable and underserved Nigerians, the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria, HFN, and the Health Emergency Initiative, HEI, have inaugurated the Board of Trustees of the Medical Intervention Initiative for Healthcare Access, MIIHA, as a collaborative initiative to drive and […]

.Urges Ogun indigenes to shun money politics, protect their heritage The Ogun State Muslim Council has installed the Peoples Democratic Party’s deputy governorship candidate for the 2027 election, Hajia Lateefat ‘Yemi Sowunmi-Kolapo, as its Grand Matron (Egba Zone). Sowunmi-Kolapo, who is the Iya Sunnah of Egbaland and Ameerah of Ogun State, was installed and decorated […]

By Dayo Johnson Akure Nigerian agribusiness company, Johnvents Group, is in talks with the International Finance Corporation, IFC, to scale up local processing and drive sustainable growth across Nigeria’s agricultural sector. The discussions, which held recently, centred on how to boost domestic value addition, strengthen supply chains, deploy technology, improve infrastructure and expand access for […]

The appeal by rehabilitated female ex-inmates for society to reject stigma is a timely reminder that punishment should not become a life sentence after release. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) itself now has a statutory mandate to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders, while its programmes include education, vocational training and income generation through farms and […]

As part of the programme’s commitment to supporting women entrepreneurs beyond training, five businesses from the Cycle 7 cohort were selected