Tag:Bill Gates

Health

Bill Gates urges Nigeria to sustain momentum for polio eradication

Bill Gates, Chair of Gates Foundation, has advised the Federal Government of Nigeria to continue its longstanding commitment to end polio transmission in the...

Michael Simire - June 4, 2025

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Bill Gates to direct majority of $200b pledge toward Africa’s future

In an address on Monday, June 2, 2025, in Nelson Mandela Hall at the African Union, Gates Foundation Chair, Bill Gates, urged African leaders...

Michael Simire - June 2, 2025

Human Welfare

Gates Foundation to spend $200bn over next 20 years to improve lives

On the occasion of its 25th year, the Gates Foundation on Thursday, May 8, 2025, made a new commitment to accelerate its mission to...

Michael Simire - May 8, 2025

Climate Change

Gates, Banga, Ruto, Rodriguez, others named to inaugural TIME 100 Climate List

TIME has named Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates; World Bank President, Ajay Banga; Kenya President, William Ruto; and the Global Environment...

Michael Simire - November 16, 2023

Climate Change

Bill Gates to invest $2bn to avert climate change

Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to invest a total of $2 billion in projects and start-ups in the next five years to avert climate...

Michael Simire - February 15, 2021

Health

Polio-Free Nigeria: Gates, Dangote, others hail achievement

Billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote have hailed the declaration of Nigeria by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as being polio-free. The global health...

Michael Simire - August 26, 2020

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Dangote, Gates: Why we’re hopeful about improving health in Africa

Nigerian billionaire and owner of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist, Bill Gates, in this jointly-written opinion...

admin - April 25, 2017

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