EPE, Lagos, December 12, 2011- Efforts to bring development to the Eredo-Epe LCDA communities received a major boost on the 8th of December, 2011 with the inauguration of the Eredo Community Development Foundation, ErCDF, and PNI’s first foundation in the South Western part of Nigeria.
The Nigeria Network of NGOs and its members are calling on the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) to develop a zero tolerance to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria by redoubling their efforts to achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services as this is key to the attainment of the Nation’s developmental goals one of which is the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
A member of the Nigeria Network of NGOs (NNNGO) Mr. Ken Ukaoha has called for proper and continuous training of journalists in technical areas of the economy in order to effectively exploit the potentials of the FOI Act for economic development.