By Patrick Enaholo and Alexander Onukwue – Grey clouds had begun to gather over the Lagos business district in Alausa as Nahimah alighted the black-striped yellow bus that had transported her from Opeloru Estate in Ikorodu. Attentive to the unpredictable…
Around the world, governments are using a variety of approaches—ranging from controlling the media, creating onerous registration requirements, and passing restrictive legislation to cut off foreign funding, to depriving human rights activists of their nationality, detaining civil society leaders, and…
MamaYe-Evidence for Action has launched #FundNaijaHealth, a campaign to track annual performance of health budget. The campaign calls for timely release of allocations appropriated for health; it also demands that annual budget timelines and all budgetary information be published online…
PENDULUM by DELE MOMODU – Fellow Nigerians, help me shout hurrah, and say a big thank you to our dear President for finally doing the unthinkable, as I recommended he should be doing only last week, in this column. The…
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Gavel Nigeria has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, to pay unscheduled visits to police stations at least once a month.
Penpushing in conjuction with Terre des homes, a foreign Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and Child Protection Network (CPN) is organizing a two day workshop to train journalists on Child Protection reportage.
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday resolved to look into a report by the international human rights organisation, Amnesty International, alleging that Nigerian security forces of rape and domestic violence against women in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Borno
Under the Nigerian Labour Law passed in 2004, a woman working in the country’s civil service has the right to maternity leave of three months, as long as she provides a medical certificate stating she should not or cannot work.
#AKYDFBill ... Over 53 NGO’s and civil society organizations under the auspices of the Youth Advocacy Cluster – YAC, is continuing its campaign for the call for public hearing of the Akwa Ibom Ibom Youth Development Fund –
The National Library of Nigeria (NLN) is the latest inductee into the ‘Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame’ over its failure to fully implement the act.
