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Nigeria Signs the AU Niamey Convention on Cross-Border Cooperation

Nigeria has signed the AU – African Union Niamey Convention on Cross-Border Cooperation at the ongoing 28th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa. Nigeria is the 12th country to sign the AU Niamey Convention on Cross-Border Cooperation.

Niamey convention

The Niamey Convention, which was adopted on 27 June, 2014 aim to achieve the following objectives:

  1. Promote cross-border cooperation, at local, sub-regional and regional levels;
  2. Seize the opportunities arising from shared borders and address the related challenges;
  3. Facilitate the delimitation, demarcation and reaffirmation of interstate borders, in conformity with mechanisms agreed upon by the parties concerned;
  4. Facilitate the peaceful resolution of border disputes;
  5. Ensure efficient and effective integrated border management;
  6. Transform border areas into catalysts for growth, socio-economic and political integration of the continent; and
  7. Promote peace and stability through the prevention of conflicts, the integration of the continent and the deepening of its unity.

Uyo Emerges 2016 Coca-Cola ‘Shaping a Better Future Grant Challenge’ Winner

Uyo

Coca-Cola Company celebrates Uyo, Nigeria as a 2016 winner of the Coca-Cola Shaping a Better Future Grant Challenge, a competition that awards acceleration funding to sustain and expand initiatives led by members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community.

 The Uyo Hub of the Global Shapers Community will receive a $10,000 grant for their project, “Education for Sustainable Development”. Their funding from Coca-Cola will accelerate the project’s work to build libraries and educational infrastructure for underprivileged students in Nigeria. Through this project, the Global Shapers seeks to correct the negative educational impact on students caused by dilapidated school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, inadequate instruction, insufficient teacher training, and a shortage of textbooks.  To date, the “Education for Sustainable Development” project has increased access to educational materials, resources and facilities for nearly 24,000 students in Nigeria. With their funding from The Coca-Cola Company, the Global Shapers will build three additional libraries.

Save The Children International Signs MoU with Lagos State to Improve Child Healthcare

Save the Children International has signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lagos State Government, to ensure children under the age of five have access to quality healthcare, especially children living with diarrhea in reducing rate of child mortality, especially of children under five.