Month: May 2020

The attention of Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has been drawn to the reaction of the Executive Chairman of Eleme Local Government Area, Hon. (Barr.) Philip Okparaji to our press statement titled “ADVOCACY CENTRE DETERMINES THE TRUE OWNER OF PRODEST HOTEL, ELEME; CALLS FOR THE SANCTIONING OF ELEME LGA CHAIRMAN FOR MISINFORMING GOVERNOR WIKE” […]

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) condemns in the strongest terms, the summary demolition of two hotels in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State by Governor Nyesom Wike in less than 24hours after they were allegedly accused of violating lock down orders of the State Government.   The demolition of those hotels under the […]

Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has been monitoring and receiving information on public compliance with the federal government ordered lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States, which contain measures to contain the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic.   Our monitoring of the compliance with the lockdown and stay at home orders in Lagos, Abuja […]

Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) is leading civil society monitoring of the returned Abacha loot to poor Nigerians by the Federal Government under the Conditional Cash Transfer programme. After days of monitoring the disbursements in Kwali, Abuja, ANEEJ director, Rev. David Ugolor, urged the National Cash Transfer Office to ‘take social distancing into consideration in subsequent payments.’   https://www.aneej.org/observe-social-distancing-at-cash-payment-points-mantra-partners-urge-fg/

The impact of COVID-19 worldwide show that the pandemic will affect people differently as well as magnify existing inequalities along lines of age, class, disability, gender and income. For measures to be effective, the COVID-19 response must integrate understanding of gender norms, roles, and relations from the start. In this brief, Chitra Nagarajan tells how […]

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/04/08/a-call-to-decongest-correctional-centres/

Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication (CCEPE)  is monitoring the distribution of relief materials to the poorest of the poor in Kwara  State. CCEPE along with other civil society organizations (CSOs) were invited to join the Kwara State COVID-19 Palliative Distribution Sub-committee in the bid to involve CSOs in the distribution of food items to the poor in various local […]

PRESS STATEMENT: April 17, 2020  A coalition of public interest organizations, under the auspices of the Action Group on Free Civic Space, have launched Legal Helplines to offer free legal services to persons whose rights are violated as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown measures in Nigeria. The organizations, comprising Spaces for Change (S4C), CLEEN […]