Friday 9th February 2024: Protect Child Domestic Workers: Foundation Pushe
The 5th Estate Newsletter || Friday 9th February 2024
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When it becomes law, the controversial NGO regulations bill will have a legislative framework and regulate the activities of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).
A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a former House of Representatives member died while nervously watching the AFCON 2023 semi-final game between Nigeria and South Africa.
AN Osun-based Non-Government Organisation, Oluwaseun Peoples Foundation, has donated food items and other relief materials to 30,000 residents of the 10 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.
A non-governmental Organization under the aegis of Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation(TAAT) has entered into a partnership with wheat farmers in Kano, as part of its contribution to assist Nigeria in cutting the cost of wheat importation.
A non governmental Organisation, Impact House Centre for Development Communication has called on Nigeria government to ensure the strict enforcement of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition), Act 2015 in the country.
Jigawa state governor, Alhaji Umar Namadi, has concluded plans to cultivate 150,000 hectares of wheat in 2024 dry season farming.
No?fewer than 723 schools are reported to have been closed down in nine states across the country due to insecurity and occupation of the school premises by state and non-state actors, Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, including incidents of flood leading to obstruction of teaching and learning in the affected schools.
A human rights organization, Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has petitioned president Ahmed Bola Tinubu over alleged grave continuous human rights violations by the Enugu State Police Command under the watch of CP, Anayo Uzuegbu.
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The project manager of Hacey, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Mr Bamidele Oyewumi, has observed that critical reproductive education cannot match up with the increase in sexual activities among the people, warning Nigerians not to treat voluntary test for HIV/AIDS with levity.
The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to step down the consideration of the bill for an Act to establish a regulatory agency for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).
THE Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria (PLANE), in collaboration with the Kaduna State Ministry of Education, has inaugurated a Public Private Partnership (PPP) committee to improve education in the state.
The World Bank, United Nations Children’s Fund and the Department of State Services have applauded the school feeding programme of the Federal Government, describing it as a potent way to rescue children from the streets back to the classroom.
With just six years to the 2030 target date to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria, UNICEF has denounced the slow progress being recorded in its eradication.
The Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, in collaboration with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), trained 2,260 adolescents on what constitutes gender-based violence.
Three students of Anglican Girls Grammar School, Benin, Edo State were gifted laptops after they emerged winners at a mini-quiz competition organised by the Emmanuel Osemota Foundation, with support from two United States of America-based entities – Conscious Cycles of University of South Florida, Tampa and Dr Lynne Dieckman of Creighton University, Ohama.
Street Project Foundation, in conjunction with the Freedom Fund, funded by the United States Department of State Grant, has held an advocacy forum on how to address exploitative child domestic work in Oworonsoki, Lagos.
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