I AM 2015! MY FUTURE COUNTS! I AM NIGERIA!

We believe that the year 2015 is critically important as processes that will potentially shape development frameworks across the globe will be concluded by 2015: 2015 is the year of two United Nations summits that can bend the course of…

US Government donated a Warship to Nigeria

On Friday, January 2, 2015, US Government donated a Warship to Nigeria. At the reception held to welcome the ship, Consul General Jeffrey Hawkins said, “today’s arrival of the Okpabana completes a process that started in 2012. The transfer illustrates…

Four members of Enough is Enough resign

Four of the founding board members of Enough is Enough, EiE Nigeria have resigned. They are Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, PIN, ‘Gbenga Sesan; Founding Partner of Red Media Africa, Adebola Williams; Executive Director of The Future Project, Chude…

NGOs not exempted from paying tax – FIRS

by Olusegun Akinleye @mypenspeaks The Director, Medium Tax Department of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Ademola Olayemi, while speaking at the 14th Annual Conference of Nigeria Network of NGOs (NNNGO) has made it known that NGOs in the country…

FAAN to install alternative power systems at Lagos Airport

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has disclosed plans to install alternative power systems at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos in order to improve the poor air conditioning system at the terminal. The General Manager, Corporate Communications,…

Africa joins mass die-in as Lima talks end today

Atayi Babs, PAMACC Team, Lima At the 2013 climate conference in Warsaw, Poland, civil society groups led by the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), Friends of the Earth, Global Campaign for Climate Justice, and others staged a massive and unprecedented…

Severe water crisis looms in Lagos – CSOs

A confluence of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has alerted on an imminent water crisis in Lagos, which it said could result in more people being cut-off from public water supply. The CSOs, which briefed the media in Lagos on Thursday,…