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Nigeria, Japan Unveil $11.2m Innovation Hub to Power Startup Growth
News Diary Online
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June 21, 2025
In a major step toward driving economic reform, industrialisation, and digital innovation, the Federal Government of Nigeria has partnered with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to launch an $11.2 million innovation...
Nigeria Insists West Africans Have the Duty of Safeguarding ECOWAS for Development of the Subregion
Arise News
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June 21, 2025
Nigeria has thrown her weight behind a strong regional bloc in West Africa, insisting that the task before the government and people of the area is to safeguard the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and to drive the expansion of...
Nigeria battle Ghana, Benin in WAFU B U-20 Cup of Nations
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
Nigeria have been paired with Ghana and Benin Republic in Group A of the WAFU Zone B U-20 Cup of Nations, Accra 2025. The three countries will compete for a place in the semifinal of the competition, with two slots available to each group. The...
Nigeria recall Oshoala for WAFCON, Monday out
ESPN Africa
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June 21, 2025
Asisat Oshoala has been recalled to the Nigeria Super Falcons set-up as head coach Justin Madugu announced a 24-player squad for the 2025 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), set to take place in Morocco from July 5-26. Oshoala, who last...
Nigeria Is Bleeding As Elders Are Sucking Their Children’s Blood
Daily Independent
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June 21, 2025
2 “The highest level of wickedness is to keep our children in the rain while our leaders discuss in a cozy conference room: to worsen this act of heartlessness, those (displaced and traumatised), who need the sermon of the visiting president were...
Nigeria risks having ‘sophisticatedly unemployed’ youths due to foreign AI models
Business Day
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June 20, 2025
Akeem Hassan, Innovation adviser to the Lagos State Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Technology has noted that Nigeria risks becoming a land of bright, educated, tech-savvy but ‘sophisticatedly unemployed’ individuals, rendered redundant...
BetKing Cares CSR Campaign Delivers Lifesaving Health and Nutrition Support Across Nigeria
This Day
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June 21, 2025
BetKing, a leading sports betting and entertainment brand, is proud to announce the successful completion of its 2025 employee-led CSR initiative, BetKing Cares, themed “Month of Good.” The month-long campaign, held from May 17th to June 17th,...
Nigeria Set to Host Historic African Fencing Championships
This Day
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June 21, 2025
Nigeria is poised to make history as it becomes the third sub-Saharan African nation, after Senegal and Mali, to host the prestigious African Fencing Championships. Building on the momentum from hosting the 2018 and 2022 African Junior...
Affordable financing, small business growth top agenda as Nigeria hosts 4th AU MSME forum
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
FG Advocates Removal Of Non-Tariff Barriers To Boost Intra-West African Trade Nigeria is set to host the Fourth African Union (AU) MSME Forum in Abuja from Monday, June 23, to Friday, June 27, 2025, as stakeholders across Africa gather to address...
Seeing Nigeria from my American daughter’s eyes
Tribune Online
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June 21, 2025
Sometimes, it takes the unburdened and free-spirited perceptions of outsiders, particularly children, to appreciate taken-for-granted cultural peculiarities. This fact came to the fore for me after taking my 8-year-old daughter, Ramat, to Nigeria...
Courting Danger: Unregulated Almajiri Settlements Signal Security Risk In Abuja
Daily Independent
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June 21, 2025
1 ABUJA – In the corridors of Abuja’s corridors of power, a new security alert is rising. In early February, during an expanded Federal Capital Territory (FCT) security meeting chaired by Minister Nyesom Wike, authorities raised clear alarm over...
African, Caribbean Leaders To Headline Afreximbank’s 32nd Annual Meeting In Abuja
Leadership
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June 21, 2025
The 32nd Annual Meeting (AAM2025) of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is expected to bring together an influential coalition of global, African and CARICOM leaders in Abuja, Nigeria from 25–27 June 2025. The high-level forum will focus on...
NNPCL: Nigeria has become a crime scene – Obi
The Sun Nigeria
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June 21, 2025
From Idu Jude Abuja The presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria has become a crime scene owing to the recent discovery of financial misconducts in the NNPCL by the Senate. Obi, who...
Reps summon NCDC over alleged release of gaseous substances in Abuja
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
The House of Representatives Committee on Environment has summoned the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Olajide Idris, to appear before it to clear allegations of release of gaseous substances into the...
Unlocking Nigeria’s Olympic Potential
Daily Independent
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June 21, 2025
2 At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Nigeria, with a population of over 200 million, did not secure any medals. In contrast, Jamaica, with just under three (3) million people, added six medals to its growing Olympic tally. What strategies might Jamaica...
Soludo’s Democracy Day speech: Why a new Nigeria must be ‘born again’ through ethical rebirth
The Sun Nigeria
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June 21, 2025
‘Let the conversation continue!’ says Prof CC Soludo in his closing speech at the 2025 Democracy Day celebration. In this opinion, I am taking the challenge to join in the ongoing robust debate about Nigeria and her journey into the future. I am...
Don seeks legal actions to mitigate Nigeria’s high maternal mortality rate
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been urged to deploy constitutional and legal means to ensure that breaches arising from maternal mortality are compensated for to stem the high rate of the scourge in Nigeria. The guest speaker at...
Expert Urges Shift In Nigeria’s Data Strategy Amid N250bn Annual Loss
Leadership
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June 21, 2025
Cybersecurity expert, Victoria Ogunsanya has advocated a sweeping overhaul of Nigeria’s data protection strategy, in the face of escalating cyber threats and an annual economic toll estimated at over N250 billion. Ogunsanya warned that, unless...
Democracy in Nigeria: Dynasties are dangerous for democracy – Dr Alada, political scientist
Daily Trust
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June 21, 2025
In this interview, Dr Abdulrasheed Mohammed Alada, a political scientist and former acting Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, dissected the phenomenon of political dynasties in Nigeria, implications, challenges,...
Tobacco Control: What Nigeria Can Learn From New Zealand, South Africa
Daily Independent
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June 21, 2025
1 As Nigeria continues to grapple with the public health burden of tobacco use, contrasting experiences from New Zealand and South Africa are offering critical lessons on what works—and what doesn’t. According to a recent policy analysis titled A...