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…
One irrefutable characteristic common to leaders with an uncommon passion to serve their people and mankind in general, be it in the military, politics, religious and other areas is that they are not in any way afraid of taking action they know will be for the interests of all, they are never scar e of criticisms, they are never afraid to lead from the front, and not from the rear like cowards. They lead by example, they give directive /command to the people like a real military commander in a battle front, they are ready to confront the enemies’ hosts…
Cross River foremost Public Affairs Analyst, Prince Thomas Abi Jr., has expressed great displeasure over government’s lack of interest in industrializing the plantain in the state. He has called on the Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, to Industrialize the plantain produced across the state. Prince Abi described the plantain in the state as one that has the capacity to generate jobs for the unemployed in Cross River and as well boost the revenue of the state. “The Plantain produced by our people in Biase, Akamkpa, Etung, Ikom, Obanlikwu and Boki Local government areas can change the economic…
Philanthropist and entrepreneur Bill Gates will use the platform of the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture to lay out his vision of how to create a better world for all when he addresses the issue of “Living Together”, the theme of this year’s Lecture. The Lecture is hosted in association with the University of Pretoria at their Mamelodi campus. It is dedicated to the Mamelodi families who lost loved ones during the apartheid years. The Lecture honours their contribution to the struggle for democracy. Speaking in a pre-recorded video message, Gates said he was honoured to have been invited to…
A lot of startups are moving really slow today because the founders are not getting their hands dirty. Building a startup in Africa, especially in a country like Nigeria is no joke and you really need to go hard or go home. A lot of founders waste a lot of time building products customers do not even need. I believe every product has a Minimum Viable Product you can deploy and start growing on gradually. Who said you do need to build an app immediately when you can get a landing page and move on to greater things? Your customer…
On Tuesday, 11th July, 2016 the social media was awashed with the picture of the immediate past Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr. David Cameron removing his belongings from 10 Downing street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister, and what immediately came into my mind was, can this happen in Nigeria? Today in Nigeria, we have a big problem. The problem of I have arrived and I need to have boys and servants who would run errands for me. That mentality has taken us aback. It has put us in a serious quagmire. At a time where the nation…
A few years ago there was the agitation that Northern Cross River State should produce a governor since the region had never produced a governor. Many people worked towards the emergence of a northern governor. Many fought to see that the area produces a governor through advocacies, campaigns and town hall meetings. I supported the idea of Cross River North producing a governor because I saw it as a way of developing the ancient Ogoja province. As a young man I have always believed in development. And when senator Liyel Imoke made the pronouncement that the governorship was going to…
Osun State Police Command has nabbed the School Proprietor, Reverend Olatunde Timothy Oke and official of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Olawale Abass in Osogbo, Osun State capital over illegal sold of Government Land with fake document. The illegal sales of the land beside railway line belonging to Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) was uncovered by the Executive Chairman of the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman who led the team that hinted the authority of the Policemen at Dugbe Divisional Police Station, Osogbo on Monday, maintained that the matter should not be treated…
Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. David Umahi, has disowned cloned social media accounts bearing his name and pictures which are being used to defraud unsuspecting members of the public. Umahi, in a statement on Monday by his spokesman, Mr. Emma Anya, advised the public to dishonour such accounts on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. The statement reads in part, “The attention of Engr. David Umahi, the governor of Ebonyi State has been drawn to the existence of accounts on Facebook, Twitter, etc operated by unscrupulous individuals asking unsuspecting people to apply for jobs and contracts on the social media…
A Chieftain of Yoruba Socio-cultural group ’Afenifere’, Barrister Niyi Owolade has declared that Yoruba ethnic group was the most populous Nation among the all tribes in Nigeria with over forty million people, just as he said that Osun State was the centre and source of Yoruba race with the most urbanized towns among the comity of states in the federation . The former Lawmaker also urged President Muhamamdu Buhari to implement the Report of 2014 National Conference which was the handiwork of Elder Statesmen, Professionals and men and women of timber and caliber, saying that the report of the National…
A human rights activist and Chairman, Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS), Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman has described the appointment of Council Managers to man the constitutionally recognized thirty (30) Local Government and the thirty –one(31) newly created moribund Local Council Development Authority (LCDA) in the State as a fraud of highest order which was initiated by the State governor, Mr. Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola to continue siphoning the resources of the local government into personal purse. However, the immediate past Head of Service (HoS) in the State, Elder Segun Akinwusi declared that Governor Aregbesola came to…