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The Nasarawa State Government has donated 400 hectares of land to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Awe and Keana LGAs, for agricultural purposes, with a view to addressing food insecurity. While handing over the land to…

The House of Representatives has revised its legislative agenda to make it people-oriented so as to meet Nigerians expectation. The document which has excited major international development organisations has also elicited the desire to…

Three firms from Nigeria are among the 28 that are shortlisted from 237 nominations for the bankable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ventures. They are ColdHubs which is in Waste Management sector while the remaining…

Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Monday has disbursed $2.5 million, being the first tranche of the $5 million seed capital to the AfDB-sponsored beneficiaries of the 2019 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The second tranche and remainder,…

The Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) implemented by UNDP says it has supported 150 projects with more than six million dollars in Nigeria. The National Coordinator of GEF-SEP, Ronke Olubamise, made this…

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced a final list of 2,100 entrepreneurs to benefit from the inaugural TEF-UNDP Entrepreneurship Programme. The Foundation, private-sector-led philanthropy that focused on…

Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman UBA Group has canvassed collaboration to uplift Nigeria’s youths from poverty into prosperity. Elumelu who is also the chairman, Heirs Foundation spoke while receiving an Honorary Doctor of…

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced 3,050 African entrepreneurs, drawn from 54 African countries, for the the fifth cycle of its $100million TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The announcement made at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja,…

BARBARA BAKO, Abuja. The Federal Government says it is harmonizing the various frameworks/plans for humanitarian and development assistance to the Northeast region into a costed Multi-Year Humanitarian Development Nexus Plan (2019-2021),…

The UN family in Nigeria says it has begun a partial movement to the UN House, Abuja, eight years after the August 26, 2011 bombing by the Boko Haram insurgents. UN Resident Coordinator, Edward Kallon, disclosed this at the celebration…