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AfDB Convenes Climate Change Seminar on Gender Mainstreaming

AfDB Convenes Climate Change Seminar on Gender Mainstreaming The African Development Bank (AfDB) will conduct a seminar on gender mainstreaming in climate negotiations for the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday, 27 September 2018. The knowledge and capacity building event will...

Trade War: China Not Afraid Of Extreme Measures

Trade War: China Not Afraid Of Extreme Measures China is not afraid of “extreme-measures” the United States is taking in their trade war and will use it as an opportunity to replace imports, promote localisation and development of high-tech-products. The State media said on Wednesday in...

China launches marine satellite to monitor climate change

China launches marine satellite to monitor climate change China successfully launched a new marine satellite into orbit on Friday to better monitor its maritime waters and study the impact of climate change. A Long March-2C rocket carrying the HY-1C satellite took off at 11.15 am from...

North East Gets £16m Education Support fund from UK

North East Gets £16m Education Support fund from UK No fewer than 100,000 children victims of Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria’s North East are to benefit from UK’s £16 million education support. Amb. Jonathan Allen, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, told journalists at the...

Nigerians Tremendously poor, says British PM

Nigerians Tremendously poor, says British PM Britain is worried by the bashing poverty in its erstwhile colony Nigeria and says the citizens are extremely poor. As she visits Nigeria today, British Prime Minister Theresa May frowned at what she described as the rising inequality in wealth...

Abegunde Suffers Injustice in US Detention Facility

Abegunde Suffers Injustice in US Detention Facility Olufolajimi Abegunde, a Nigerian residing in the state of Georgia, Atlanta in the United states is currently suffering from injustice, discrimination and mistaken identity in the hands of United States law enforcement agents and the courts, PRNigeria has...