Dear Active Citizen, If you completed your voter registration or applied for card transfer or replacement between June 2021 to January 14, 2022, your permanent voters' card (PVC) is now available for pick up at the INEC LGA office where you registered. ...
THE LEKKI-IKOYI LINK BRIDGE – THE LEGAL STATUS OF APPEAL AGAINST JUDGMENT OF FEDERAL HIGH COURT
ISSUED IN LAGOS, ON THURSDAY 26th APRIL 2022 Our attention has been drawn to the erroneous statements circulating in the media that the Lagos State Government does not have the legal right to collect tolls on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge and tha ...
Less Talk, More Action!
Dear Active Citizen, Who said our voices don't matter? The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with Lekki Concession Company Limited, (LCC), has halted the recommencement of toll collection at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge indefinitely. This deci ...
STRATEGIC PLAN (SP) AND THE 2023 ELECTION PROJECT PLAN (EPP)
ISSUED IN ABUJA, ON THURSDAY 21ST APRIL 2022 1. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the official presentation of the INEC Strategic Plan 2022-2026 and the INEC Election Project Plan for the 2023 General Election. The documents presented today ...
Nigeria Decides 2023: Will we take the road over-travelled?
Long before I stumbled on Isiah Berlin’s “to understand is to perceive patterns”, I was fascinated by life patterns. The ones we design with our choices, doing things consciously, unconsciously and mapping out the same lines and circles that i ...
Bring Back Our Girls Now!
Dear Active Citizen, Yesterday, April 14th marked the 8th anniversary of the abduction of the 276 #ChibokGirls. While 167 of the #ChibokGirls have either escaped, been released or found, 109 #ChibokGirls are still missing. This is a painful milesto ...
#NoJusticeNoToll
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Desmond Tutu (South African Cleric, Anti-Apartheid Advocate & Nobel Laureate) On April 1, 2022, Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC), a compa ...
#NoJusticeNoToll
Dear Active Citizen, We have started a petition to the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to halt his decision to commence toll collection from Saturday, April 16, 2022, and to make public the White Paper on the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on P ...
One Last Chance!
Dear Active Citizen, Yesterday, we hosted our 12th year anniversary symposium titled 'On Debates & Democracy' at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The hybrid event featured a media panel and a debate panel that had in attendance the 'most debated ' Niger ...
The Brazen Legalisation of Gender Inequality in Nigeria
March 1, 2022 was a sad day for Nigerian women. Despite extensive lobbying, consultations, negotiations, and advocacy, the 9th National Assembly (NASS) joined previous ones to legitimise the discrimination of women in Nigeria. It is particular ...
NIGERIAN WOMEN RECORD LANDMARK JUDGEMENT AGAINST FGN ON THE JUSTICIABILITY OF THE NATIONAL GENDER POLICY
6 April 2022 Today April 6th 2022 Nigerian women have won a landmark judgement against the Federal Government of Nigeria (defendants President Muhammadu Buhari & the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami) for inclusive gover ...
#BringBackOurGirls Statement
6 April 2022 Corpses don't vote: #BringBackOurGirls backs Sheikh Nuru Khalid Our movement read with consternation, the suspension of the Chief Imam of the Apo Legislators’ Quarters Central Mosque, Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid. Abuja. Sheikh Khali ...