Why "What comes to mind anytime this company called NSITF (National Social Insurance Trust Fund in Nigeria Must Be Repositioned As Social Insurance
"What comes to mind anytime this company called NSITF (National Social Insurance Trust Fund) comes up in the news? Fraud." That's what a businessman in Nigeria has to say about the country's social...more

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia To Grace Ssi Awards 2022 €¦ As More Than 40 ...
When it comes to environmental issues, Ghana's Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is no stranger. That's because he's the father of the country's current vice president, Dr. Mahamudu...more

Community Foundation Adds Community Investing Program
Foundation: Hutchinson Community Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation, Topeka Community Foundation
"We are no longer your grandfather's community foundation because when community foundations started, they were basically philanthropic granting organizations," Elizabeth Weese, executive director of...more

Dormant Funds Help Deliver £97m Social Investment Boost To The West Midlands
The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport is asking for the public's help in determining how the country's nearly $1 billion in "dormant assets" should be spent. The funds, which...more

A £17m Boost For Tees Valley and Other Distressed Areas
There was money sitting in dormant bank accounts in the UK until a decade ago, but it's now being used to create jobs and improve the lives of people in some of the country's poorest areas, the...more

Npower Batch C, Stream 2 to Officially Begin Operations in October 2022
Flights to and from Nigeria have been suspended by the country's civil aviation authority over what it calls the airline's "non-remittance of more than N1.2 billion." The Guardian reports that...more

Dimagi receives $25 million to develop transformative technology for Frontline Workers
The Steele Foundation for Hope has poured $25 million into a Massachusetts-based tech company that hopes to revolutionize the way community health workers around the world do their jobs. Dimagi, a...more

Government secures $30m AfDB grants for post-Covid-19 recovery project
The West African country of Ghana has received $30 million from the African Development Bank to help its youth and small-business owners deal with the effects of the Covid-19 virus. The money...more

The hot race to Aso Rock Villa
"We are starved of heroes," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote in her keynote address at the Nigerian Bar Association's annual conference last week. "Our young people do not find people to look up to...more

Kaduna Govt., Gender Centre To Entrench Gender-responsive Budgeting, Service Delivery
Foundation: Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving Nigeria's Kaduna State some much-needed help in the area of gender-responsive budgeting, the Guardian reports. The foundation's Gender Center of...more