Press Release The continuing spate of arrests and detentions of journalists and bloggers amid the security forces’ violent disruption of peaceful protests underscores how the Nigerian government appears determined to crush dissent and suffocate freedom of expression, said Amnesty... Read more
By SKC Ogbonnia For full disclosure, I am an Igbo man. I am also one of the pundits currently being lampooned for cheering President Muhammadu Buhari to democratic power. Yet, knowing what I know now, I will lend that support all over again—and even more. Unless we have begun to... Read more
Lagos, Nigeria, 28th September 2016 – Project Pink Blue and Wikimedia UG Nigeria, in partnership with WikiAfrica, and the Goethe-Institut will be co-hosting a 2-day workshop Wiki Loves Women in Abuja, Nigeria. The 2-day workshop will teach up to 20 women in Abuja how they can cre... Read more
Press Statement A group of civil society organisations has described the recent demolition of commercial and residential quarters in several parts of Lagos State as ‘ill-motivated, insensitive and ill-timed’. The demolition and mass eviction exercises ordered by the Lagos State G... Read more
Press Release ‘Every generation must out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.’ – Frantz Fanon The National Assembly is constitutionally mandated to make laws for the peace, order and good governance of the country. It is also responsible fo... Read more
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A TWO–DAY POLICY DIALOGUE ON REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES AND PEACE BUILDING IN AFRICA AT THE INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION (IPCR), ABUJA, ON 1 – 2 SEPTEMBER, 2016 Introduction The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) i... Read more
By Eze Onyekpere INTRODUCTION The State is under a legal obligation to make a budget[1], which is a statement of income and expenditure and an indication of the state’s expenditure priorities for the year. As an economic process, budgets convert state development plans and priori... Read more
By Yakubu Dogara INTRODUCTION: Issues concerning the Budget and Budget process in Nigeria have been in the front-burner of public discourse for some time now. It is therefore a welcome opportunity for stakeholders to discuss matters concerning the budget and it is in this regard... Read more
By Aminu Waziri Tambuwal PROTOCOL I feel highly honoured to be here, and I must commend the organisers of this conversation for their foresight in putting together this event in an effort to widen the scope of discussion on our budgetary process. This is coming at a time when des... Read more
By Godwin Onyeacholem Very few Nigerians will be amazed by the way the House of Representatives handled the allegations of budget padding and abuse of office which Abdulmumin Jibrin, former Chair on Appropriation, levelled against a fraction of the House leadership including the... Read more
By Austin Emaduku Have you ever wondered why in every work of genius, you see something faintly familiar to you? Why you feel a connection so strong that it invokes past known feelings? Have you ever read a work of art or an illuminating opinion and you felt like it is something... Read more
By Sam Amadi It may be near impossible to cleanse Nigeria of pervasive corruption if we do not expand the current war against corruption to include strategic change management initiatives. A law enforcement based approach, as well-meaning as it is, even if redoubled, would not wi... Read more
By Colby Itkowitz Outside the Oval Office is a small rectangular room with two side-by-side, nondescript wooden desks. In one sits President Obama’s personal secretary. In the other is Brian Mosteller, the man who sweats the small stuff so that the president doesn’t have to. Few... Read more
By Nuhu Ribadu Protocols, Let me start by thanking the Governing Board of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) for the invitation to deliver the keynote address at this important event. NIM has always shown commitment and taken the lead in efforts to sanitise the public spa... Read more
