Tuesday 2nd July 2024: Abuja to Host 9th EU-Nigeria Business Forum
The 5th Estate Newsletter ||Tuesday 2nd July 2024
The ninth edition of the Nigeria-European Union Business Forum will bring together business leaders, policymakers, and institutional stakeholders from Nigeria and Europe in Abuja on July 2 to identify and explore investment opportunities along specific value chains.
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Business owners at the Karu market, located in Karu, a suburb community in Abuja, mourned their loss as fire consumed some sections of the market.
Alliance for Africa (AFA) has said it was working on a project aimed at combating sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination in Nigerian tertiary institutions.
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An NGO, Initiative for the Advancement of Albinism Cause (INAAC), has offered free medical services to persons with albinism in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
The Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is scheduled to hold a one-day media lecture series to commemorate the 90th birthday of Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, with speakers to include Biodun Jeyifo, Chidi Odinkalu and Odia Ofeimun.
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A non-governmental organisation, NGO, Accountability lab Nigeria has urged the Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji to champion transparency, accountability.
The Incorporated Trustees of HEDA Resource Centre said it would appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which struck out its application seeking to stop the Federal Ministry of Environment, ATC Nigeria Wireless Infrastructure Limited and MTN Communications Plc from going ahead with the planned construction of new base stations near the existing sites operated by other infrastructure operators.
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BudgIT said that the government’s proposal to run the four budgets simultaneously and elongate the implementation period of the 2023 approved budget and supplementary budget from the proposed termination date of December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024, is an anomaly with no precedence.
The Akin Fadeyi Foundation hosted an impact series event to celebrate Victor Ogunmola, a Geoscientist and the President of the I-Scholar Initiative.
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A non-profit organisation, Child Education and Child Support Initiative (CEACSI) has called on the Federal Government to be supportive of indigent orphans.
The British Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has reportedly tried to cover up funding of ￡22 million ($27.8 million) for groups affiliated with anti-Israel terrorism, according to the research institute NGO Monitor.
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The United Nations Children’s Fund has concluded that lapses in Nigeria’s educational sector, especially in states like Katsina and Zamfara are connected to the persistent insecurity ravaging the areas.
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Continued violence and instability in Haiti have resulted in the displacement of over 300,000 children, with an estimated one child being displaced every minute since March, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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