https://www.chidoonumah.com Informed commentaries, news and progressive analysis of topical events in Nigeria, Africa and around the world Sun, 10 Jan 2016 19:37:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.chidoonumah.com/hope-for-human-trafficking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hope-for-human-trafficking https://www.chidoonumah.com/hope-for-human-trafficking/#respond Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:18:12 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=7319 With an estimated 20.9 million victims across the globe, human trafficking and slavery is a growing problem. Each year, roughly 17,500 individuals (80 percent of which are women and children) are brought into the U.S. and held against their will as victims of this tragedy. While they mostly focus on sex trafficking rather than the more […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/hope-for-human-trafficking/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/the-school-bag-project-for-girls-in-northern-nigeria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-school-bag-project-for-girls-in-northern-nigeria https://www.chidoonumah.com/the-school-bag-project-for-girls-in-northern-nigeria/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:00:26 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6624 In 2013, about 200 girls were abducted from a school in northern Nigeria. This has added to the ever growing reluctance in the education of girls in the northern part of our country, Nigeria. This project is aimed at igniting the passion of getting education for girls. We are targeting primary schools with the aim […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/the-school-bag-project-for-girls-in-northern-nigeria/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/in-ethiopia-four-zone-9-bloggers-acquitted-of-terrorism-charges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-ethiopia-four-zone-9-bloggers-acquitted-of-terrorism-charges https://www.chidoonumah.com/in-ethiopia-four-zone-9-bloggers-acquitted-of-terrorism-charges/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:55:03 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6621 Nairobi, October 16, 2015 – The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the acquittal by an Ethiopian court today of four Zone 9 bloggers charged with terrorism. Abel Wabella, Atnaf Berhane, and Natnail Feleke, jailed since April 2014, are scheduled to be released today, while exiled blogger Soleyana S. Gebremichael was acquitted in absentia, news reports […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/in-ethiopia-four-zone-9-bloggers-acquitted-of-terrorism-charges/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/open-letter-to-gov-el-rufai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-letter-to-gov-el-rufai https://www.chidoonumah.com/open-letter-to-gov-el-rufai/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:48:30 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6618 By Bitrus Jock Adua Dear Governor, Please accept my late congratulatory message to your emergence as the new Governor of the North-central state of Kaduna. We played our part as democrats and the majority votes have declared you as the winner of the last election. I must say, without mincing words that so much is […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/open-letter-to-gov-el-rufai/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/330000-scam-court-resumes-trial-of-maurice-ibekwes-accomplice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=330000-scam-court-resumes-trial-of-maurice-ibekwes-accomplice https://www.chidoonumah.com/330000-scam-court-resumes-trial-of-maurice-ibekwes-accomplice/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:41:58 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6615 Press Release Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja,  has begun proceedings  into the  trial of Chief Augunos Okoro, an accomplice of  late Morris Ibekwe, implicated in a $330,000 (Three hundred and thirty thousand USD) and DM75,000 (Seventy five thousand  Deutschmark) scam. Okoro, owner of Yolk Hotel in Ire-Akari Estate, Isolo, Lagos, allegedly […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/330000-scam-court-resumes-trial-of-maurice-ibekwes-accomplice/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/kenyan-parliament-passes-repressive-media-bill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kenyan-parliament-passes-repressive-media-bill https://www.chidoonumah.com/kenyan-parliament-passes-repressive-media-bill/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:40:12 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6612 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the passage late Wednesday by Kenya’s national assembly of a bill that would impose a harsh fine or two years in jail, or both, for a journalist who is found guilty of defaming the Kenyan parliament or its members. The bill must be approved by the senate and the […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/kenyan-parliament-passes-repressive-media-bill/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/call-for-application-masters-class-in-oil-gas-reporting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=call-for-application-masters-class-in-oil-gas-reporting https://www.chidoonumah.com/call-for-application-masters-class-in-oil-gas-reporting/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:27:24 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6551 Investigating oil sales governance in Nigeria (A deep dive course) Tuesday 3 and Friday 6 November 2015 The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites entries from Nigerian professional journalists with ample understanding of the Nigerian oil and gas sector, from the print, broadcast and photography specialties, to the deep-dive course on oil sales […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/call-for-application-masters-class-in-oil-gas-reporting/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/kachikwu-tees-off-new-era-of-transparency-in-nnpccommences-monthly-publication-of-financial-and-operational-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kachikwu-tees-off-new-era-of-transparency-in-nnpccommences-monthly-publication-of-financial-and-operational-report https://www.chidoonumah.com/kachikwu-tees-off-new-era-of-transparency-in-nnpccommences-monthly-publication-of-financial-and-operational-report/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:12:39 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6546 Press Release In line with its earlier pledge to open up the books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC for public scrutiny, the Management of the national oil Corporation under the leadership of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu over the weekend commenced the monthly publication of its provisional financial and operational reports. The publication which is […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/kachikwu-tees-off-new-era-of-transparency-in-nnpccommences-monthly-publication-of-financial-and-operational-report/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/regional-cooperation-vital-to-anti-graft-war-in-west-africa-lamorde/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=regional-cooperation-vital-to-anti-graft-war-in-west-africa-lamorde https://www.chidoonumah.com/regional-cooperation-vital-to-anti-graft-war-in-west-africa-lamorde/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2015 05:31:27 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6543 Press Release Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde has reiterated the importance of cooperation in the efforts to stamp out corruption from West Africa. The EFCC boss who spoke through the Secretary to the Commission, Adegboyega Aremo, at the closing ceremony of the maiden training programme of National Anti Corruption Institutions […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/regional-cooperation-vital-to-anti-graft-war-in-west-africa-lamorde/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/efcc-arraigns-abubakar-ali-peters-and-nadabo-energy-for-n761m-fuel-subsidy-scam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=efcc-arraigns-abubakar-ali-peters-and-nadabo-energy-for-n761m-fuel-subsidy-scam https://www.chidoonumah.com/efcc-arraigns-abubakar-ali-peters-and-nadabo-energy-for-n761m-fuel-subsidy-scam/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2015 05:28:02 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=6540 Press Release The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, October 7, 2015 arraigned Abubakar Ali Peters and his company Nadabo Energy Limited before Justice S.S Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja  on 21-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence, diversion of Federal Government funds and forgery. The accused persons allegedly […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/efcc-arraigns-abubakar-ali-peters-and-nadabo-energy-for-n761m-fuel-subsidy-scam/feed/ 0