Leading opposition politicians in impoverished but mineral-rich DRC called for the protest after rejecting last week’s vote, which was marred by severe delays and bureaucratic disarray. Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa prevented protesters from assembling Wednesday,…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the 36 state governors in the country over “their failure to account for the spending of the N72 billion palliative collected from the Federal Government, including details of the…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to “publicly instruct the former governors who are now serving as ministers in your administration to stop collecting life pensions, exotic cars and other allowances from their states while…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the unlawful plan to spend N40bn on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for members…
…Targets 1 million youths, 500,000 MSMEs with grants, digital training In line with the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration’s commitment to providing more digital jobs for young Nigerians, the Federal Government through the Office of the Vice President is set…
A coalition of civil society organisations, the National Society Protection Forum (NSPF) has told Nigerian governors to improve on the National Social Register (NSR) to serve in the best interest of Nigerians rather than calling for its outright rejection. Recall…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu | On 17 July 2012, Peter Obi, then governor of Anambra State, swore in five new commissioners. One of them was Chike Okoli, whom he assigned to the Ministry of Science and Technology where he would serve…
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery has disclosed that the economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu would attract investors from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. Montgomery said this while speaking with State House correspondents after a closed-door…
Former President Buhari’s ascendancy to office of the President was partly attributed to electoral reforms introduced by Jega-led INEC between 2010 – 2015. These reforms include, a fairly credible voter register, Smart Card Reader for electronic voter accreditation and a…
Rivers State Governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Tonye Cole, has said the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the remedy to the worsening food insecurity and poverty in Nigeria. According to him, the concept of stomach infrastructure popularised by…
