Bukola Afeni | WaterAid is urging global leaders to commit to new funding of at least $1.2 billion, to ensure all hospitals and clinics, particularly within the world’s poorest countries, have clean water, decent toilets and proper handwashing facilities. The…
Kenneth Afor | The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) and Centre for Law Enforcement Education (CLEEN Foundation) has called on the various judicial panels of inquiry on extra-juducial killings sitting in some states in the country to dispense…
…call on Head of Security Agencies, intelligence to expose culprits. Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has revealed that certain politicians who were enemies of the country were frustrating the war against insecurity by President Muhammadu Buhari and were politicizing insecurity…
By Ijeoma UKAZU | Following the release of the 344 abducted Kankara school boys in Katsina state, the United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) has hailed the release, however, they condemned the attack says, no cause justifies such against children and…
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Duke University For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to “abolish” a police force had succeeded. After weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality, the government agreed to disband a widely…
By Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi, Obafemi Awolowo University | Demographic data are important for national development. They are useful in sectoral planning and should influence the direction of government priorities. A youthful population like Nigeria requires accurate information on characteristics like…
By Mayowa ADENIRAN | The National Assembly has been tasked on the need to consult widely with host communities in the current process of passing the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB to deepen ownership of the resulting legislation. The call was…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his “good offices and leadership position to urgently instruct the Director-General and Board of the National Pension Commission [NPC] to use…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). This was announced in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to…
Save the Children International Nigeria commends the Katsina State House of Assembly for passing the Child Protection Bill on 25th November 2020, almost 17 years after the Child Rights Act (2003) was first presented to the House to be domesticated. The…
