Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the unlawful directive banning the use of old N500 and N1,000 banknotes, contrary to the interim injunction granted by the Supreme Court that the old N200, N500, and N1000 notes remain legal tender.” Joined in the suit as Defendants are […]
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Target: Board of Director of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Relevant Strengths: • 5 years’ experience of public accounting • 23 years’ experience of budget monitoring • 20 years’ experience of NGO Management and Leadership • 20 years of engaging extractive companies in Nigeria and international • 20 years of Strategic Planning, Stakeholders and
KINGSLEY OZEGBE FOR CSO REP ON NEITI BOARD – THE PREFER CHOICE BEFORE US Read More »
A Communiqué issued at the end of the First Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) at the CSN Resource Centre, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Durumi, Abuja, 11 to 17 February 2023. 1. PREAMBLE We, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, held our First Plenary Meeting for the year at the CSN Resource
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has renewed Cellulant’s Payment Service Solution Provider License in Nigeria. This license enables Cellulant to continue providing online and offline payment solutions, including collections, check-out, biller aggregation, and payout services securely to thousands of businesses across Nigeria. Cellulant’s digital payments platform, Tingg (www.Tingg.Africa)- enables businesses to seamlessly accept and
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “promptly seek authorisation from the ICC Chamber to commence an investigation into the situation in Nigeria in relation to the growing cases of pre-election violence, which if not addressed may escalate and lead to post-election violence in the country.” The petition
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By Eyo Nsima The Federal Government has put Nigeria’s petrol pump price at N184 per litre. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timpre Sylva, disclosed this while inspecting petrol stations in Lagos Friday. He said that an interministerial intervention initiated by the Federal Government has set out to ensure proper management of petrol
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Former beauty queen, Christabel Eze, has launched a project aimed at driving greater participation of youths and women in the agro-industry. Eze won the maiden Miss Agriculture Nigeria contest in 2021 and has since then dedicated her time to youth and women empowerment programmes including the provision of sustainable livelihood to the underprivileged. Speaking at
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The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT), in line with its mandate, has rolled out some advisories in the first few weeks of the year 2023 as cyber threat actors continue to devise means of compromising their targets. The latest of such advisories urged users to be mindful after attackers use Microsoft
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…Project to kick off Q1 2023, finish in 30 months By Eyo Nsima Sixty-six years after the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities at Oloibiri, Bayelsa State by Shell D’Arcy, the Federal Government through the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday awarded the Phase-1 Engineering, Procurement & Construction contract for Oloibiri Museum &
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By Eyo Nsima The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise [CPPE] welcomes the restraining order of the supreme court on the timeline for the currency swap. We believe this would restore normalcy to economic activities especially in the distributive trade sector, the informal sector and rural economy. It would also douse current social tension
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