States’ Cash Cruch: CBN Kicks As Govs Beg FG To Postpone $2.1bn Support Repayment         State governors on Thursday at the monthly meeting of the National Economic Council appealed to the Federal Government to postpone the repayment of the $2.1bn budget support facility to states which...

Nigeria Needs $5.7m To Provide Water, Says UNICEF   United Nation Children Economic Fund (UNICEF), has disclosed that Nigeria requires an average of $5.7billion to provide water and sanitation in each local government area of the federation. The Chief of Party Water Sanitation and Hygiene, UNICEF, Zaid...

28.7% of Nigerians Engage in Open Defecation- Survey ...As NBS, UNICEF Others to Conduct 2018 WASH–NORM Survey Latest reports indicate that about 28.7 percent of Nigerians engage in open defecation and there was urgent need to check the trend as the development poses serious risk to...

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has launched the start of a European Union-funded project to support maternal, newborn and child health, strengthen health systems and eradicate polio. Parties to the project in Abuja signed up to a grant of €70 million (around N23...

The incessant warnings about the possibility of Nigeria facing famine in the nearest future may have been taken with a pinch of salt by both citizens and those in position of authority. The latest report is coming from the Famine Early Warning System Network,...

The African Development Bank has provided $50 million in grant to Bauchi state for instrastructure development, officials say. Bauchi state water resources commissioner Muhammad Abdulhami told journalists in the capital that the amount is part of a $250 million fund set aside by the bank...