Nigeria’s development partners are seeking the use of technology to meet the targets of the sustainable development goals during the coronavirus pandemic. Click here to read more from SDG news this week.
Aug
04
Aug
04
Dozens of developing nations across the globe have achieved the targets for the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13: Climate Action — reducing greenhouse gas emissions and investing in climate resilience — while developed countries remain far behind. Click here to read more from SDG news this week.
Aug
04
A new report has predicted that an estimated 71 million additional people will be living in extreme poverty due to COVID-19. Click here to view more from SDG news this week
Jul
16
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, and Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, over “their failure to account for public funds and other resources so far spent and used to combat the spread of COVID-19 in... read more →
Jul
16
The National Assembly the other day consented to a Federal Government’s proposal to squeeze the sum of N79.7 billion of the 2020 budget of education and health sectors. Such development at this time of national medical emergency is most shocking. Stay updated on factual health stories and educating articles on... read more →
Jul
16
Plans by Nigeria’s government to cut healthcare spending risk undermining the country’s coronavirus response and severely impacting already strained services, health and transparency groups have warned. Stay updated on factual health stories and educating articles on UHC every week. Click here to view the Newsletter
Jul
16
The Nigerian Government failed to meet capital funding promises worth 101.98bn made to the health and education sectors between 2016 and 2018, Civic Media Lab has discovered. Stay updated on factual health stories and educating articles on UHC every week. Click here to view the Newsletter
Jul
16
SINCE 1999, Federal Government’s allocation to the health sector has been abysmal. In the last 21 years, the Federal Government has produced a budget of N82.2 trillion out of which it allocated N4.096 trillion or 4.98 per cent to health. Stay updated on factual health stories and educating articles on... read more →
Jul
16
The world’s health care workers — 70% of which are women — are key to achieving universal health coverage and guaranteeing global health security. Stay updated on factual health stories and educating articles on UHC every week. Click here to view the Newsletter
Jul
09
The Build Back Better webinar series is designed to engender health system resilience by promoting agenda-setting conversations among policy makers, donor agencies, Civil Society and professional bodies. The webinar series will foster policy dialogues that will help to collate lessons learned and insights that have implications for health system resilience... read more →
