Voice’s Nigeria Empowerment Grant

Voice’s Nigeria Empowerment Grants: Targeting both Formal and Informal Groups in Nigeria Deadline: 22 August 2017 Voice has announced a call for proposals for its Nigeria Empowerment Grants which target both formal and informal groups in Nigeria.

Nominations Open for International Equals in Tech Award

Nominations Open for International Equals in Tech Awards: Recognizing ICT Initiatives Empowering Women and Girls, Deadline: 15 September 2017 Have you been inspired by a project helping women and girls cross the digital divide? Nominations are now open for the…

Family planning gets a Budget Boost at the National Level

Historically in Nigeria, FP in Nigeria has been driven and funded totally by donors. In 2011, the government for the first time budgeted the equivalent of three million USD ($3million) annually for the period of 2011-2015 for the procurement of…

BREAKING: National Assembly Passes 2017 budget

The National Assembly has passed the 2017 Appropriations Bill, raising the budget from N7.28 billion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December last year, to N7.44 trillion. The Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives separately…

National Assembly to increase Health budget to N1.1tr from N304bn

The budgetary allocation to the country’s health sector would be increased to 15 percent in line with the 2001 African Union Abuja declaration, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho (APC, Ogun) said on Wednesday. Addressing newsmen…