Human Welfare

Human Welfare

Dangote launches N1trn Education Fund to support 1.3m Nigerian students

Nigerian industrialist, Aliko Dangote, on Thursday, December 11, 2025, announced a N100 billion annual education support initiative, describing it as a long-term investment aimed...
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Human Welfare

Human Rights Day: CAPPA decries deteriorating rights protection, seeks end to impunity

As the world marks International Human Rights Day 2025, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has decried the deteriorating state of human-rights protection in Nigeria,...
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Human Welfare

Trade unions, civil society flay crackdown on Senegal water workers

Trade union and civil society organisations from Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda have frowned at alleged intimidatory acts of the management of Senegalese water company,...
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Human Welfare

Environmental protection: Communities in Ghana can resist illegal mining without losing their livelihoods

Awakwai is a farmer in the Sika Nti community at Asankragua in Ghana’s Western Region. When he migrated to the community to work on...
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UN launches $33bn aid appeal with call for global solidarity

The UN and partners on Monday, December 8, 2025, launched their global humanitarian appeal to save millions of lives where shocks hit hardest –...
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Human Welfare

Water justice network criticises repressive acts against Senegal union members

The Africa Water Justice Network (AWJN) has called on the Senegalese national press and international media outlets to beam their attention on alleged intimidation...
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Human Welfare

Nnimmo Bassey: Colonialism’s Nunc Dimittis in Africa

The African Union (AU) has “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations” as its theme of the year 2025. This theme...
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Human Welfare

CISLAC seeks competitive green economy, energy security for Nigerians

A civil society organisation (CSO), Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), has called for a competitive green economy that creates jobs, unlocks innovation and...
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Waste Management

TechnoServe, Coca-Cola Foundation launch PReP 2.0 to help scale plastic recycling in Nigeria

Building on the success of the first phase of the Plastic Recycling Program in Southern Nigeria (PReP), international nonprofit,...
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40 migratory animal species receive new, upgraded protection at close of UN meeting in Brazil

Confronted with stark new evidence that many migratory species are moving closer to extinction, governments at a major UN...
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CAPPA urges govt to increase tobacco control budget

The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has renewed its call on the Federal Government to significantly increase budgetary...

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