The United Nations speaking through the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA, Nigeria) has stated that Nigeria needs about 1 Billion dollars to address the mounting…
Read MoreThe National Economic Council decided last week through the Nigerian Governors Forum that it was going to approve the withdrawal of 1 Billion dollars from the excess crude account to…
Read MoreIn an unusual development that might give rise to public consciousness and change the shape of recognition for human rights in Nigeria, human rights lawyer Mr Femi Falana has sued…
Read MoreAs far as press freedom goes, the current administration has proven it is just as closeminded as its predecessors. Most recently, it has turned its attention to digital media, as…
Read MoreThe Human Rights Writer’s Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reinstate 38 officers who were compulsorily retired by the Nigerian Army last year June. Speaking…
Read MoreA non-governmental organization, the Sickle Cell Support Society of Nigeria (SCSSN) has raised alarm about the increasing number of people suffering from sickle cell disease in Nigeria. The organization stated…
Read MoreSenior Advocate of Nigeria and Human right lawyer, Femi Falana has declared as unlawful the plan by the military to arrest hate speech offenders in the country. According to Falana,…
Read MoreCivic tech organisation BudgIT, recently uncovered how Senator Bala Ibn Na'Allah diverted his constituency project. The discovery was made by BudgIT's Tracka team. According to the report, the Senator representing Kebbi…
Read Moreby Adesina Tosin Nathaniel The Hydorcarbon Pollution Remediation Programme (HYPREP) which was set up to midwife the cleanup of the Ogoni environment has received knocks and condemnations from civil society organisations…
Read MoreThe Bukola Saraki-led eighth Senate has been a plethora of jesters. Irrespective of party affiliation they are all the same and have contributed little or nothing to national development. If…
Read MoreLast week was a sweet sour experience for the BudgIT family. The Twitter account of Seun Onigbinde, its Co-founder was hacked by an unknown individual on the 3rd of August…
Read MoreThere is an impending health crisis in Nigeria that needs to be nipped in the bud immediately. The new report by the Nigeria polling organisation (NOI Polls) and the Nigeria…
Read MoreTired over the silence on the health of President Muhammadu Buhari, a coalition of Civil Society Groups are set to begin a campaign to ensure he is booted out of…
Read MoreThe Twitter account of lead partner of civic tech organisation, BudgIT, Seun Onigbinde has been hacked. The organisation said this minutes ago via its Twitter account, @BudgITng. It wrote, "Hello…
Read MoreThe Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has done an audit of Nigeria's Oil and Gas industry in 2014, and a couple of observations were made. Of prominence is that…
Read MoreA short clip from the Digital Engagement and Rights Forum, organised by Paradigm Initiative with the Presidential Office of Digital Engagement, led by Tolu Ogunlesi.
Read MoreBothered about the current challenge employers face with getting the right graduate to meet their needs, Co-Creation Hub is beginning a Graduate Programme to help narrow the gap between what…
Read MoreYou should know YIAGA (Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement), they have pioneered the massively successive #NotTooYoungToRun campaign alongside other advocacy groups - successful not just in capturing popular…
Read MoreOkay, so that headline was some weird form of click bait because we certainly don't think this is a versus situation. And there is absolutely no evident competition between them.…
Read MoreSo, obviously you already know that BudgIT is Nigeria's sexiest civil society organisation. Let's not even argue about that. Local and global audiences agree. So it's not a surprise it's…
Read MoreSo this week, on 13 July, EiE added another station to its network of radio programmes focused on its #OfficeOfTheCitizen project. It's up in Calabar on Hit95.9FM – every Thursday…
Read MoreConvened by the Centre for International Media Assistance, and hosted by the National Endowment for Democracy, media leaders from across Southern, West, East and Central Africa - 40 of them…
Read MoreFirst launched in 2014 and suspended for three years, The Alternative - a Twitter-based handle seeking to sensitise younger Nigerian voters about the stakes in the next elections. It resumed…
Read MorePolitical candidate in the last elections and (former?) activist, Ayisha Oshori, spoke at the Party Politics 101 event organised by Enough is Enough Nigeria yesterday, at the Muson Centre in…
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