Social / CSR in Nigeria
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SOUTH AFRICA, 2017/07/29
The Nigeria Union in South Africa says the recent comments by that country`s Deputy Police Minister insinuating an influx of foreigners in Johannesburg are unfortunate.
The Minister, Bongani Mkongi, was quoted to have said: “How can a city in South Africa be 80 % foreign national? That is dangerous. South Africans have surrendered their own city to the foreigners.”
He made the comments while reacting to the problem of hijacked buildings in Johannesburg.
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NIGERIA, 2017/07/16
On August 1, 1966, next the collapse of last-ditch attempts by Nigeria's power brokers to prevent the impending civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu said only one thing would make the rebels cease fire: "that the Republic of Nigeria be split into its component parts; and all southerners in the North be repatriated to the South and that Northerners resident in the South be repatriated to the North".
On May 30, 1967, Oxford-educated Ojukwu declared Biafra an independent national in the southeast of the country, in an attempt to fulfil his dream for an Igbo homeland. On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria, which claimed additional than a million lives in just three years.
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NIGERIA, 2017/07/16
Prosecutors in the United States have provided details of how Nigeria's former minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and her two businessmen-allies, Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko, lavished billions of naira on property and luxury items in the U.S. and United Kingdom.
The trio have, in the last two years, been at the centre of a lot of investigations and court actions around management of Nigeria's oil industry.
Last year, the Nigerian government filed for a court order for world-wide seizure of multi-billion naira investment linked to the two men, described as close allies of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke.
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BURUNDI, 2017/07/09
African citizens, activists and organisations are finding new and innovative ways to resist, organise and mobilise in the face of mounting restrictions on their rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association.
Restrictions on civic freedoms are increasing worldwide, but are being acutely felt in African nations. According to the CIVICUS Monitor – a constantly updated tool rating nations’ fundamental civic freedoms from open to closed – 43 African nations fall under the bottom three categories of closed, repressed and obstructed with only two African nations rated as open. In most African nations, freedom of expression, assembly and association are stifled by national and non-national actors through the use of restrictive legislation, policies, and judicial persecution inclunding physical attacks, threats and detention of activists and journalists. While these restrictions generally occur at the same time as civil society groups speak out in direct opposition to public policy, there is strong evidence that restrictions increase during politically sensitive periods, like elections and prior to constitutional changes on term limits of political leaders.
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NIGERIA, 2017/04/28
Nigeria, with assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Nigeria), presently has a concrete and implementable draft policy on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). This followed the validation, last week in Keffi, Nasarawa National, of an before draf
The policy document is coming up for the initial time.The plan of action was initially developed by stakeholders and it was again subjected to scrutiny by a group of selected experts. It is their submission that was validated at a 2-day workshop in Keffi...
The policy document is coming up for the initial time. The plan of action was initially developed by stakeholders and it was again subjected to scrutiny by a group of selected experts. It is their submission that was validated at a 2-day workshop in Keffi, Nasarawa National last week. It is all in a bid to have a nationally acceptable and practically workable Plan of Action for implementing the World framework - the Sendai Framework.
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NIGERIA, 2017/03/07
Speaking at the Dangote’s version of the ongoing social media week, Halima Dangote, Executive Director and daughter of Africa’s richest man, advocated for additional influx of the women folk, into technological positions. She urged for the involvement of women leaders in technology and this,she said would be largely supported by Dangote Group.
Halima Dangote who serves as an Executive Director at Africa’s giant conglomerate, Dangote Industries Limited, ignited insightful conversations on the convergence of leadership, technology advancement and gender parity. She highlighted the multiplier result any investment made in women and girls have on economies and called for additional deliberate women participation in key leadership roles specifically in the ICT space which is reputed to be traditionally dominated by men.
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NIGERIA, 2016/11/02
Nigerian Initial Lady Aisha Buhari seems to be hugging the headlines of late for all the wrong —- and maybe some not-so-wrong — reasons.
Following her controversial statements last week criticizing her husband and his subsequent response that fired off a media storm, the Initial Lady is once additional in the news, and this time it is for her taste in high-end luxury items.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Buhari was photographed on her recent trip to Brussels, Belgium, for the African Women’s Forum wearing a multi-coloured Salvatore Ferragamo cape.
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NIGERIA, 2016/10/19
Even as we rejoice over the release of 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted two years ago, it bears remembering that north-eastern Nigeria is mired in a grave humanitarian crisis.
Endangering, impoverishing, and displacing additional than two million people, it is the grim legacy of Boko Haram, one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups. Worried about the situation, U.S. officials will have talks this week with 12 northern governors to discuss ways in which Washington can help them cope with the crisis and tackle the poverty, underdevelopment, conflict and violent extremism that threaten their region.
However in order to help, the United States, other donors, and humanitarian organizations operating in the north-east will have to confront the Nigerian government's ongoing mismanagement of the crisis, the systematic corruption of its humanitarian relief efforts and its transformation of camps for displaced persons into abusive, military-run internment sites.
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EUROPEAN UNION, 2016/09/04
The Nigerian government on Thursday warned citizens of the country against illegal migration to Europe.
Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, gave the warning in Abuja, the country's capital city during the Unveiling Ceremony of the National Policy on Labor Migration.
The policy was developed with the technical and financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
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NIGERIA, 2016/07/20
Almost a quarter of a million children in Nigeria’s Borno national, which was once controlled by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, are suffering from severe malnutrition, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) has warned.
Unicef said out of 244,000 children found to be suffering from acute malnutrition in Borno, almost one in five, or roughly 49,000, would die if they failed to get quick medical assistance.
