Africa Nigeria A court ordered the government to enforce its gender policy of reserving 35 per cent of positions in public offices for women, thus answering to what human rights and women's activists have long been demanding
Africa Nigeria The Nigeria Learning Passport, an online, mobile and soon offline learning platform that will provide continuous education to 3 million students in 2022, and 12 million by 2025, has been launched by the government and Unicef
Africa Nigeria The 'Nigeria, full stop' initiative is aimed at fighting against the stigmatisation of Nigerian community in Italian media, with about 35 Nigerian associations clustered around it with the intention of showing a lesser known face of immigration
Africa Nigeria In a plenary vote, the Senate rejected two important reforms that could have greatly altered the heterogeneity of Nigeria's institutions: allowing diaspora citizens to vote and a provision to guarantee pink quotas in the National Assembly
Africa Nigeria A 102-year-old woman, Nonye Josephine Ezeanyaeche, has announced her intention to run for president in 2023
Africa Nigeria Thirty-year-old Samuel Ikpefan has been the first cross-country skier in the history of Nigeria to compete in the Winter Games
Africa Nigeria The financial crimes agency recovered at least $750 million in local and foreign currency linked to corruption and fraud last year, as announced by the Information Minister
Africa Nigeria 7 UN agencies have been indicted for tax evasion by the local revenue agency of Borno State; although international laws exempt them from paying taxes as an entity, this principle cannot apply to their employees and contractors in Nigeria
Africa Nigeria Early and forced marriages are still widely spread, with very high rates compared to the continent, as federal and state governments do not enforce existing laws to prevent them, as Human Rights Watch recalled in a recent press release
Africa Nigeria The World Bank expects the country's growth to strengthen by 2,5% in 2022 and 2,8% in 2023, in the face of global growth expected to decelerate markedly from current 5,5%
Africa Nigeria Design and production studio Storyland Studios will design a film city and campus for the film and television industry in Lagos
Africa Nigeria For the third time in five years, senators rejected a bill seeking to promote gender equality in the country, attributing their resistance to strictly religious reasons; only 7% of senators are women
Africa Nigeria The federal government has estimated that the total number of poor citizens will reach 109 million by the end of 2022, out of a total of 210 million, with the increase linked to the pandemic