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LAPO MfB, IITA, Water.org, IFC, others collaborate to strengthen ESG commitments, deepen sustainability impact

LAPO Microfinance Bank Partners with IITA, Water.org, IFC, and Others to Strengthen ESG...

Ramadan 2024: Islamic philanthropy surges to record high as UN delivers warning

Islamic philanthropy raised a record $46 million for 2 million displaced people in...

Battling green skill shortage in the quest for a sustainable economy

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Nigeria to get WHO-recommended new malaria vaccine by Mid-2024

The World Health Organisation has recommended a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for the prevention...
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UNILAG Professor secures dual grants for sustainability research

The Co-Director of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD), University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria, Professor Peter Elias, has secured two significant grant...

France, EU commit €10.2m to Qualimeds Nigeria Project

The European Union (EU) and France have committed a €10.2 million investment to strengthen Nigeria’s pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, in what officials describe as a major...

UNILAG Professor secures dual grants for sustainability research

The Co-Director of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD), University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria, Professor Peter Elias, has secured two significant grant awards to advance research and innovation in sustainable development. Details of the two research grants, funded by Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund (CReSus RF), are: - Title of Project: Applying Transdisciplinary and Youth-Driven Citizen Science for a Healthy Climate-Resilient, Lagos- Grant Holder: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge in collaboration with University of Lagos through Centre for Housing...
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Education

UNILAG Professor secures dual grants for sustainability research

The Co-Director of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD), University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria, Professor Peter Elias, has secured two significant grant...
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Health

France, EU commit €10.2m to Qualimeds Nigeria Project

The European Union (EU) and France have committed a €10.2 million investment to strengthen Nigeria’s pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, in what officials describe as a major...
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Culture and Arts for social change

CORA sets plans for 2025 Lagos Book & Art Festival

Nigeria’s frontline art and culture advocacy group, the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), has announced arrangements for the execution of the 2025 edition of...
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Agenda 2030

Northwest: EU partners FGN with €40m funding on education, youth empowerment programme

The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), in a strategic partnership with the European Union (EU), has created a National Programme Steering Committee (NPSC) to...
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Science, Technology & Innovations (STI)

FGN endorses STICOMMS’25, pledges to promote research, innovation

The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (FMIST) has endorsed the first National Science, Technology and Innovation Communication...
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Africa

Nigerian nature-based carbon initiative, Gashaka Gumti selected to get UK support

The Carbon Accelerator Programme for the Environment (CAPE) has revealed that the Gashaka Gumti project has been selected, as one of four in its...
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Health

NCDC plans preventive measures against new Ebola threat

...warns Nigerians against contact with fruit bats, monkeys, apes, raw and undercooked meat THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says it has activated plans...
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Culture and Arts for social change

Sports Commission, Ministry of Arts agree on establishing sports-cultural innovation hub

The Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy (FMACTCE) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...
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Social Enterprise

Women Empowerment: SHEALS commits to driving sustainable change across Nigeria

SHEALS, a global initiative geared towards helping women's development and growth has, again, committed to empowering women to drive sustainable change across Nigeria. SHEALS Boot...
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