Residents of Okerube, an informal settlement in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, are working with the Shantytown Empowerment Foundation (SHEF) and the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) to develop community-led solutions to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) challenges affecting their living conditions. A stakeholders’ engagement held on Saturday, 14 November, brought together community leaders, residents, development stakeholders and project representatives to review progress, assess pressing needs and discuss interventions ahead of the project’s implementation. Titled ‘Informal Settlements as Spaces of Transformative Agency: A Community-Based Approach to WASH Infrastructure in Okerube, Lagos, Nigeria’, the initiative adopts a participatory approach…
Author: Olanshile Akanho
The awareness campaign for the screening of DevReporting’s investigative documentary, ‘LG Billions in the Dark’, has gained fresh support from corporate, professional and academic stakeholders, following a series of engagements by the media organisation ahead of the event. Scheduled for Thursday, 29 October, at the Faculty of Arts Theatre, University of Lagos, the 3-in-1 event will feature the screening of the documentary, the unveiling of the organisation’s non-profit arm, Development Reporting Africa Foundation (DRAF), and a fundraiser to support its activities. The project is being implemented in partnership with the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development CJID through its Local…
A coalition of civil society organisations in Nigeria (CSOs) has petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate alleged irregularities in the country’s 2026 budget, including a N1.3 billion allocation to the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) and about N8.4 billion in road projects under the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education. The Coalition also wants the anti-graft agency to investigate alleged relocation of federal projects to Ogun State and the role of Solomon Adeola, a senator popularly known as Yayi, in the appropriation process. In the petition signed by the…
Research involving 318 solar technicians in Lagos has exposed significant gaps in training and certification, raising concerns about the safety and quality of installations as solar adoption grows. As more households and businesses in Lagos increasingly turn to solar energy amid unreliable electricity and rising generator costs, a new study has found that only 49 per cent of surveyed technicians possess certificates related to their technical work, raising concerns about the safety and quality of solar installations. The research, conducted by Eghosa Igudia, a researcher and lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, involved 318 technicians and found that…
Technology alone will not close Nigeria’s healthcare gaps, health innovators said at MedVerge on Saturday, as they called for stronger collaboration, wider health insurance coverage and investment in locally relevant data. The event, organised by HelpMum, Dobic Health and SmartMRS in Lagos, featured solutions aimed at improving maternal health information, pharmacy access, electronic medical records and health services for people who remain outside the formal healthcare system. Innovators call for stronger collaboration The convener of MedVerge and founder/CEO of HelpMum, Dobic Health and SmartMRS, Abiodun Adereni, said stronger collaboration was needed across the health ecosystem. “I think people are not…
At about 11 p.m. on a Lagos Island highway, Ibukun Tunde-Oni, a medical doctor, was involved in an accident that would expose the fragility of emergency healthcare in Nigeria. Despite being a doctor, he waited by the roadside for about three hours before an ambulance arrived. By then, it was about 2 a.m. and the ambulance drivers asked him where they should take him. Mr Tunde-Oni had suffered a cracked skull and urgently needed imaging. The accident also claimed the life of someone close to him. The experience, he said, reinforced his decision to develop technology that could help Nigerians…