The Working Group of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms in collaboration with the African Platform on Access to Information (APAI) will hold a workshop on Freedom of Expression and the Internet in Africa in Banjul, The Gambia,…
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has called on the Nigerian Government to decriminalize defamation and amend other laws in the statute books that restrict access to information, to bring them into conformity with the Freedom of…
Lilian Ezejelue Updated: It is not uncommon to hear the government of our great country make promises which they never follow through on. The citizens have become so used to it that they no longer get hopeful when such promises…
By Our Reporter Over 1,000 internally displaced Agatu women and children camped at the Central Primary School Ugbokpo, Apa Local Government Area of Benue state have been provided free medical care by the Live Healthy Organisation (LHO). The medical outreach…
By Our Reporter Members of the Yobe State Executive Council and other key officials of the state government, including some permanent secretaries and heads of parastatals, will hold a two-day governance retreat in Abuja in collaboration with the state Partnership…
By Our Reporter The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has revealed that foreign airlines plan to sack about two thousand (2,000) Nigerian workers due to what they claimed is their inability to transfer their earnings to their respective…
Lilian Ezejelue Updated: The Lagos State Government through its Office of Civic Engagement held a meeting with Civil Societies and Non-Governmental Organizations on Thursday, 24th March 2016. Enhancing Participatory Democracy in Today’s Governance was the theme of the gathering which…
Kemi Busari The Lagos state government has once again reiterated its commitment to deliver a government of inclusiveness to the citizenry. Speaking shortly after the inaugural meeting with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), the Special Adviser to the governor on Civic…
By Our Reporter According to the latest WHO data, life expectancy in Nigeria is: male 53.7, female 55.4 and total life expectancy is 54.5 which gives Nigeria a World Life Expectancy ranking of 177. Why are Nigerians dying so young?…
AMOS ABBA writes on the dilapidating state of Benue’s Otukpo rice mill; a once burgeoning enterprise now cast in despair and under productivity. In the hot and humid sun of the Benue region, building number 2, located within the premises…
