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Nigerian government plans to regulate, profile NGOs

The federal government has announced plans to profile NGOs, months after a bill to regulate non-governmental organisations (NGOs) failed in the National Assembly. The federal government says the profiling is to ensure compliance with regulations against money laundering and terrorist…

The ‘war’ on NGOs, by Dele Agekameh

Almost throughout its post-independence existence, the Nigerian government has struggled with the provision of essential services to the populace, while being perpetually unable to deal with the country’s infrastructural deficit. In July this year, at the quarterly presidential business forum…