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Empowering refugees in fighting Coronavirus

UN Secretary General Antoni Guterres observes that many refugees across the world have put their lives on the line to save humanity in efforts...

Michael Simire - June 22, 2020

Human Welfare

A young executive’s prescription for COVID-19’s depression

Last year, Hamzat Lawal, Founder/CEO of Follow The Money and Connected Development (CODE), faced what he describes as one of his darkest moments and...

Michael Simire - June 22, 2020

Human Welfare

How a female drug user received a lifeline amid a pandemic

One out of every four people who uses drugs in Nigeria is a woman - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Report, 2018 Yemisi, a student in one of the...

Michael Simire - June 17, 2020

Human Welfare

Nigeria inaugurates committee for Lake Chad region recovery, development

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday, June 15, 2020 inaugurated a National Steering Committee for the restructured Multi-sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP) currently...

Michael Simire - June 15, 2020

Human Welfare

Nigeria’s education budget cuts threaten the girl child’s future – Malala Fund, CODE, others

The Malala Fund, together with the Abuja-based Connected Development (CODE) and several other civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on President Muhammadu Buhari of...

Michael Simire - June 12, 2020

Human Welfare

COVID-19: Group clamours planting of gardens, trees to combat food shortage

Alarmed by a potential rise in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic that could push millions of people into hunger, a not-for-profit based in...

Michael Simire - June 12, 2020

Human Welfare

Conflict-hit Nigerian families living under COVID-19 lockdowns on ‘life-support’

Help and funding are needed urgently for millions of people in Nigeria who have been hit severely by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic,...

Michael Simire - June 10, 2020

Human Welfare

George Floyd: We must all be part of solution to racism – Meyers

In a reaction to the killing of African-American, George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, says the incidence...

Michael Simire - June 3, 2020

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