The Climate Change agreement will be opened for signature on 22 April 2016, coinciding with Earth Day. At the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the…
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has called on Nigerians to take advantage of available information and data contained in its audit reports to push for the actualization of…
House of Representatives has mandated its committee on Police Affairs to investigate the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase over the utilization of the sum of N18 billion released…
On 15 April the United Kingdom published its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) report, after being an EITI candidate country since 2014. The report provides, for the first time,…
By Jelilat Olajumoke & Sheriffdeen Opeyemi, University Of Ilorin In its bid to ensure accelerated implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria, a youth led Non-Governmental Organisation, Brain…
UNDERSTANDING THE ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015 (PART 1) Introduction One of the pre-conditions for free, fair and credible elections is a coherent, unambiguous legal framework. This is so because elections…
Ms Fatma Samoura, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative recently made presentation on UNs Support for Equitable and Sustainable Growth in Nigeria: Emerging Results and Roadmap for the Future…
Join the weekly twitter dissucusion series focusing on gender stereotypes in Nigeria. The first discussion on this topic kicks off tomorrow with theme ‘who a real man is’ (perceptions of…
To some, foreign infiltrations, interests and manipulations explain all the leadership, governance, social, security and development crises in Africa. To some, Africa is still acutely underdeveloped because of these manipulations…
As FCT decided yesterday the next Area Councils Chairmanship and Councillorship in a peaceful and well coordinated electoral process, some update on the outcome of the elections is however being…