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Heartland Child Care Foundation (HCCF) and Nneoma Felicia Udenwa Foundation, two pet projects of the wife of the former Governor of Imo State, Dr. Theresa Agbonma Udenwa, has awarded scholarship to 300 students in the state.
The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) has taken a look at the state of the nation and declared that Nigerians were now living in apparent hopelessness. It blamed this on the economic and socio-political situation in the country in which the major social structures are in the throes of death.
The findings by a Senate sub-committee that most local and international Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) conceal their books of account should be a matter of concern that merits investigations.
Dr. Noerine Kaleeba is the founder of The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) and Katalemwa Cheshire Home in Gayaza. She points out to New Vision milestones that have shaped her life.
A group, 'New Niger Delta Forum' at the weekend, called on the Federal Government to constitute a probe into the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in the last nine years over alleged discrepancies discovered in the award and execution of contracts by the commission.
REVEREND Tunde Bolanta is the General Overseer of Restoration Bible Church and Ministries based in Kaduna. He is also the president of Mercy Home Orphanage, Maternity and Vocation Centre which is an arm of the ministry.
FORMER Miracle Centre and SC Villa right full back, Dan Ntale who is also the director of Kampala School of Excellence, a youth academy, has organised a tour to Kampala by former Cameroon Ex- internationals in the second week of December.
For effective delivery of the federal government's policies and programmes all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) have been called upon to emulate the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), which performs its statutory functions with total commitment, zeal and utmost sense of responsibility.
A 56-YEAR-OLD man was last week thrown behind bars for five years for swindling Windmill Pvt Ltd Company of close to 200 tonnes of fertilizer worth over US$100 000 using a fake cheque from the Bank of New Zealand and a non- existent Non Governmental Organisation.
WORLD Vision has commissioned community projects worth sh300m in Nakaseke district.
Firebrand, controversial musician, Charles Oputa alias Charly Boy and his legal luminary dad, Justice Chukwudi Oputa (rtd) will be hosting a two-segment program at the end of the year, Weekend Circuit has learnt.
The National Forum on Orphans and Vulnerable Children in collaboration with the Department of State for Social Welfare and the World Initiative for Orphans on Monday began a two day consultative workshop on the protection of vulnerable children and children without parental care.
The Disaster Volunteer Group, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has appealed to the government and other NGOs for support to cover the correspondence, transportation and mobilisation of its members and supporters after sensitisation works and clean ups.
Vision Development Foundation (VDF), in collaboration with Boca-Loho Foundation, on Monday, donated medical items to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH), Faji Kunda Health Centre and The Gambia Family Planning Association (GFPA).
The Boca-Loho Foundation, a non profit making organisation based in Holland, yesterday donated valuable items such as tables, chairs and learning materials to the Prospect Day care and Nursery School (PDNS) in Mariama Kunda, at a ceremony held at the school ground.
The 'Future Youth Development Association' in Farato recently held a massive cleansing exercise at the Farato Health post in western region. The purpose of the cleansing exercise was to ensure a healthy environment within the campus of the post as well as the surrounding areas as the health post plays a major role in creating health for the people of Farato.
The Boca Loho Foundation from the Netherlands, on Monday 23 November donates to health centres through the Vision Development Foundation of the Gambia in Churchill's Town.
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last week gave Namibia's Church Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) a huge budgetary boost with a N$9,1 million donation.
SOCIETY of Non-Fiction Authors of Nigeria (SONFAN) has raised alarm that Nigerian academic materials writers are losing a minimum of $12 million (N104.3m) from only Belgium besides other countries, as royalties accruing from the use of their intellectual works.
OVER one million Nigerians are being mobilised to walk and march against HIV/AIDS from National Stadium, Surulere to Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos to create more awareness on the need for voluntary testing to know ones HIV status on December 5.
Civil society activists have piled pressure on the government to make public all agreements it has entered with companies prospecting in oil that has been discovered in the Albertine region in western Uganda.
The Senate has accused local and International Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) operating in Rwanda of not being transparent by producing their financial reports.
The Nigerian government has not brought a single prosecution or even begun investigations a year after Nigerian policemen and soldiers killed more than 130 civilians in responding to deadly sectarian clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Human Rights Watch said today.
UNITED Nations Children's Funds (UNICEF) has lamented the fate of children in the country, stating that the only genuine way of showing commitment towards their protection was passing into law, the Child Right Bill by the various State governments.
The Special Adviser to the President on Civil Society Relations, Prince Chineme Ume-Ezeoke, has declared that Non State Actors (NSA) cannot be separated from day to day running of government; as their role is vital in the overall development of any society.
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