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African professionals attending the Global Luban Workshop in Ningbo have urged their governments to adopt lessons from China in addressing insecurity and rising unemployment across the continent. The two-week program, hosted by Ningbo Polytechnic University, focused on vocational training, technology transfer, and industrial upgrading. Delegates from across Africa said the…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) have renewed their commitment to deepen collaboration in addressing regional threats such as insecurity, disinformation, and governance vulnerabilities. This was the outcome of a high-level meeting between Ms. Amanda Dory, Director of the ACSS,…
Erratic government bans and widespread insecurity are crippling efforts to cut West Africa’s estimated 30 percent youth jobless rate, lawmakers warned at an ECOWAS parliamentary hearing in Monrovia. Speaking for the bloc’s joint committees on Administration, Finance & Budget; Public Accounts; Macroeconomic Policy; Industry; and the Private Sector, Nigerian Senator Osita Izunaso blasted…
Northwest Nigeria is grappling with an alarming education crisis, as UNICEF reports that Kano, Jigawa, and Katsina states account for 16% of the nation’s 10.2 million out-of-school children at the primary level. This troubling statistic was revealed by Mr. Rahama Rihood Mohammed Farah, UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office in Kano,…
Womanifesto, a group of over 500 women organizations, activists, advocates and practitioners, strongly condemn the recent wave of insecurities and kidnappings in Nigeria. As enshrined in Section 14(2b) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, the welfare and security of the citizens shall be the primary purpose of the government. The…
The National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria has called for a collaboration between academic unions in tertiary institutions and the Federal Government to improve the nation’s quality of education in 2024. It also described the insecurity being witnessed in parts of the country as a major challenge affecting the sector.…
A Group, the Kogi Conscience Liberation Movement, KCLM, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to move all sensitive materials from the State to Abuja where the Tribunal have relocated. During a news conference in Abuja, the National Secretary, Kogi Conscience Liberation Movement, Comrade Okpanachi Jacob pointed out…
The resolution of the House followed a motion by a member of the Green Chamber, Eze Nwachukwu, on the need to forestall further killings in Ebonyi State.
