Concerned Civil Society Organisations in Cross River state, led by Green Concern for Development (GREENCODE) and Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) have frowned at the continuous detention of Rev. David Ugolor, the Executive Director of African Environmental and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) in Benin City over an alleged murder of the late Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, who until [...]
The New Initiative for Social Development (NISD), a registered non-governmental organisation is strategizing to monitor the 2012 capital budget for the South-west geo-political zone in the country. Towards this end, the NISD intend to meet with the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget and Office of the Deputy Governor in all the states in South-west [...]
The Zero Corruption Coalition (ZCC) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised a Zonal Consultative meeting in Owerri, Imo state on the Draft National Strategy to combat corruption in Nigeria for the South-east zone as part of its ongoing zonal consultations to combat corruption. The consultative meeting, which was convened to provide [...]
Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-per cent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict. ABDULLAHI BABA ALAWUSA, who examined the report, says the document also shows that the [...]
Amnesty International has described as “fiasco” the investigations into Shell oil spills in the Niger Delta, alleging that the company repeatedly blamed sabotage in an effort to avoid responsibility. The investigation process into oil spills in the Niger Delta has been challenged by Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD), [...]
A non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) has advocated for the creation of state and community policing institutions to replace the existing near-moribund Nigeria Police. In a statement jointly signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Director of Media Affairs, Ms. Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA said the creation of these [...]
A group known as Peace and Human Rights Watch (PHRW) has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the case of three people, including a woman, who were arrested and paraded by the security agencies last week as suspects in the Okene bombings that left two soldiers and 20 worshipers dead in two separate [...]
President the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Peter Esele, has warned the federal government against its reported intention to remove some vital sections of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) that are in the collective interest of Nigerians. He gave the warning in Port Harcourt last Wednesday, while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day [...]
The Chairman of National Population Commission (NPC), Eze Festus Odimegwu, has lamented what he described as “unacceptable fertility rate of 5.7 per cent in the country”, stressing that Nigeria is lagging behind many countries in controlling its population growth. Odimegwu, who stated this during this year’s World Population Day (WPD) explained that 59,000 women and [...]
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