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A new ranking by UN Women and the Inter-Parliamentary Union puts Nigeria 179th out of 185 countries for the percentage of women in the national legislature. Women currently make up only 3.9% of seats in the House of Representatives. In the Senate, three of the 108 current members are women. In the executive branch, women head eight of 45 (17.8%) of ministries. This absence of women in […]

Oando Foundation (OF), an independent charity organisation established by Oando Plc (Nigeria’s leading energy company), to support the Federal Government in achieving its Universal Basic Education (UBE) goal, has disclosed that it has earmarked over N1 billion to execute its 2025 Foundational Learning Improvement Programme (LEARNOVATE-FLIP) projects in various Nigerian schools across the country in

Almost four decades after Nigeria dispensed with a cocoa-industry regulatory board in 1986, a new executive bill is working its way to the legislature to create a replacement. By the time it was scrapped, the cocoa marketing board, which fixed prices and regulated other industry practices, was so hated by farmers that it was seen