The wife of the Senate President and Chair of Senators Wives Forum, Her Excellency Toyin Saraki will today participate at the White House Summit on Global Development. The summit which will hold at Washington DC will mark the achievements and progress of the international community and affirm President Obama’s commitment to global development as a priority. The summit will unite all facets of the global development community, from civil society to the private sector. H.E. Toyin Saraki will affirm The Wellbeing Foundation Africa’s commitment and dedication to empowering women and girls in Nigeria and across the African continent. Furthermore, H.E.…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The Founder and President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Her Excellency Toyin Saraki, and the Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Sobhani were honoured with an invitation to participate at the White House Global Development Summit holding at Washington DC. The summit will bring together civil society, non-governmental organisations and private sector partners to celebrate and to acknowledge the progress, which has taken place in various sectors in Global Development. Her Excellency, Toyin Saraki will be speaking on the progress made in moving towards achieving global development goals and also emphasising on the fact that there is so much left to be…
An Osun State based Civil Society Organization (CSO), the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has uncovered how the National Judicial Council (NJC) allegedly forged its rule from 2014 Revised rules and regulation to 2016 Revised rules and regulations to act the script of the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Rauf Aregbesola to ensure the untimely exit of the incorruptible Judge of the State High Court, Justice Olamide Folahanmi Oloyede for writing a 39 pages Petition Letter to the State House of Assembly, alleging Aregbesola of financial impropriety of public funds, from the bench at all…
In the past few days, the hearts of genuine citizens of our great nation have bled over the news of the killing of a female Christian preacher by alleged Muslim fanatics in Kubwa area of the FCT, Abuja. I was actually alerted by a friend’s ext message because although I reside in the affected area, i was far away in Ibadan, Oyo State, as at the time of the incident. As an average concerned Nigerian, I thought, when will this nation be free from religious and ethnic crises? But as a journalist and one with eye for investigation, I knew…
Disability is a physical or mental impairment that is perceived to limit one or more major life activities of an impaired person. While this appears a direct definition, Nigerians have ascribed various definitions to disability in different terms, concluding that persons with disabilities are abnormal persons who are offered mainly medical and charity gestures. Over the years, persons with disability in Nigeria have been marginalized in all spheres. These discriminating tendencies have deprived them of the basic opportunities entitled to every citizen thereby infringing their fundamental human rights. As victims of negligence, this category of people have gained global attention…
The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) commends her partner, PharmAccess Foundation, which works in a public-private partnership with the Kwara State Health Insurance Program; the private insurer, Hygeia Community Health Care; and the Health Insurance Fund (HIF), for the 2016 Financial Times/International Finance Corporation Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development: Maternal & Infant Health. The program was set up in 2007 with a strong support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since its inception, the program has delivered substantial results in terms of improved maternal and child healthcare in Kwara State, Nigeria. For example, hospital deliveries rose from…
Over 19 million Nigerians live with one form of disabilities or the other, with more than 80% of them living in the rural areas of the country. In every region of the world, in every country, persons with disabilities often live on the margins of society, deprived of some of life’s fundamental experiences. Persons with disabilities have little hope of going of getting education, securing a job, having their own home, creating a family and raising their children, socializing or even exercising their civic rights during elections. Persons with disabilities make up the world’s largest and most disadvantaged minority. From…
The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), in collaboration with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), marked the end of the first phase of the Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) ‘Making It Happen’ Project which was carried out in three (3) Local Government Areas in Kwara State: Ilorin-West, Ilorin-East and Ilorin-South. A Dissemination of Results Meeting commemorating the end of Phase-1 of this project was organized on the 14th of July at the Captain Cook Event Centre in Ilorin, Kwara State. The event had many attendees, including Midwives, Nurses and Doctors. Health workers who were present at the event were mainly…
Without any doubt, the events of last week in the Nigerian Senate which led to the altercation between Senator Oluremi Tinubu of Lagos Central Senatorial District and her colleague, Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi West senatorial District as well as subsequent reactions of several other Senators has left a bitter taste in the mouths of several political – conscious Nigerian. Nonetheless, the question that begs to be answered is that WHO LEAKED DETAILS OF THE EXECUTIVE SESSION OF THE SENATE? An executive session any establishment, in this case the red chamber of the bicameral arm of Nigerian legislature is supposed…
A Civil Society Organization (CSO) based in Osun State, the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has dragged the State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola before the United Nations (UN), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), United Kingdom (UK), United State of America (USA) over alleged repeal of democratic system in the third tier of government and illegal diversion of local government funds, calling for the intervention of the international community. The group had earlier written a strong worded letter to President Muhammadu Buhari and the both chamber of the National Assembly on the anti-democratic posture of…