The United States, despite withdrawing from a landmark accord aimed at curbing climate change, is stonewalling vital UN talks over how to fund poorer nations as they battle against global warming, multiple sources told AFP Saturday.

To reduce youth restiveness in Kogi State, ActionAid has handed over N35.5million livelihood projects to nine local communities in the state. The projects include rice milling machine at Okpeji community; garri processing factory and hand pump borehole at Okpapata at the cost of N3, 325,000; cassava processing and maize milling factory at Ofuloko community; block,…

ActionAid Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to promptly address the root causes of the killings nationwide with a view to finding a realistic solution and promoting peaceful coexistence and productivity.

ActionAid Nigeria has trained women peer-education facilitators in 12 communities to check gender gaps, harmful traditional practices against widows as well as girl-child education in Kogi State

ActionAid Nigeria has urged government to address persistent institutional sexism in the Nigeria Police Force, Judiciary and other public institutions.

Action Aid Nigeria has expressed worry over the two percent budget allocation to agricultural sector.

Piqued at the reports on the sale of some African citizens as slaves in Libya, ActionAid International has called on the African Union (AU) to suspend the country until all captive and bonded persons are released.

Ojobo Atuluku opined that the restructuring should focus on the management and funding of public education by the different tiers of government as well as the distribution of public investment between primary, secondary and tertiary education.

Unless the Federal Government solves the insecurity challenges in the country, it may not achieve its food security target by 2025.The ActionAid Country Director, Ojobo Atuluku gave the warning yesterday, in Abuja at an event organised by the Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON).

Nigerians at the grassroots level were yesterday charged to actively participate in the budget making process and increase their participation in government.

ActionAid Nigeria, last week, opened a photo exhibition to canvass friendly environments for Nigerian women in public places. With the theme, ‘Women Access to Gender Responsive Public Places,’ the exhibition was strategically mounted at the foyer of Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

Atuluku stressed that it was worried that no body has been punished in Nigeria for their involvement in the Halliburton scandal, even though their foreign collaborators were indicted in the USA.