Worried by the potential negative social and economic implications of the rising debt stock of Nigeria, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the leadership of the National Assembly to decline approval for the latest President Buhari’s request for a fresh $4 billion and €710 million foreign loans. Specifically, SERAP appealed to the […]
A leading economist and private sector advocate, Dr. Muda Yusuf, has described proposed the re-introduction of excise duty on the production of soft drinks in the country by Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) as ill-timed, insensitive and most inappropriate given the prevailing harsh economic and business conditions. Yusuf, the immediate past Director General of the Lagos […]
A new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has revealed that despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected. This is even as the global labour organization also found that the pandemic response was uneven and insufficient, deepening the […]
Leaders of Ogoniland have vowed never to allow Shell Petroleum Development Company to return to their land for exploration operations on Oil Mining Lease (OML) 11 after the recent court judgment on the suit filed by the oil company. The Ogoniland people, through the leader of Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI), Rev. (Dr) Douglas Fabekee, made […]
A leading environment-focused civil society organization (CSO), Environmental Rights Action Friends of Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has charged the Federal Government to ensure that oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Nigeria, account for all its actions before divesting its interests from the nation’s oil and gas industry. The CSO in a statement issued in Benin, […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has reiterated its commitment to “closing the financing gap” for women even as it cautions on the impact of widening gender inequality in food systems in Africa. The Bank’s Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Dr. Beth Dunford, who made this promise while speaking in Rome, Italy during […]
A group, the All Electricity Consumers Protection Forum (AECPF), has sued the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company and the Eko Electricity Distribution Company for failing to implement the order capping estimated billing of some of their customers. The suit dated July 12, 2021 was filed before an Ikeja High Court. According to a news report by […]
ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) at the weekend expressed its support for the Nigerian government’s reluctance to sign the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tax deal in view of its lopsided provisions that it observed were not in favour of developing economies. The Country Director of the civil society organisation, Ene Obi, in a statement […]
House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities on Thursday warned an oil exploration company, First Exploration and Production Development Company, against obstructing the hearing of a petition by Bekikiri communities of Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State against the firm. The committee also asked the company not to deny oil host communities of their […]
The first international treaty on violence and harassment in the world of work will come into force this Friday, June 25, two years after it was adopted by the International Labour Congress’ (ILO’s) International Labour Conference (ILC). A news release by the ILO on Monday indicated that to date, only six countries namely, Argentina, Ecuador, […]