Janet Brown, Tunde Fashola, SAN and Segun Adeniyi for EiE Nigeria’s 12th Anniversary Symposium
April 4, 2022 Lagos, Nigeria ‘‘We must begin to imbibe a culture by which those who aspire to lead our people are subjected to a rigorous process of public debates that will assess their suitability on objective criteria, rather than the religion they practice or where they come from.’’ – Olusegun Adeniyi (Chairman, ThisDay […]
Nigerian Lives Matter: A Call to the Federal Government of Nigeria to Fulfill its Primary Constitutional Responsibility of Securing the Nation
Friday, April 1, 2022 We, as civil society organisations and citizen groups across Nigeria note with concern the worsening state of insecurity in Nigeria. We, therefore, call on the government to take urgent steps to fulfil its constitutional responsibility of protecting lives and property as enunciated in Section 14 (2) (b) and Section 33 […]
EiE Nigeria Hosts Symposium To Commemorate 12th Anniversary
March 30, 2022 Lagos, Nigeria ‘‘We must begin to imbibe a culture by which those who aspire to lead our people are subjected to a rigorous process of public debates that will assess their suitability on objective criteria, rather than the religion they practice or where they come from.’’ – Olusegun Adeniyi (Chairman, ThisDay […]
DEMOCRACY IN RETREAT: A PETITION BY EXCLUDED NIGERIAN WOMEN
Dateline: (Abuja) 9th March,2022 BEING A TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE DELIVERED AT THE NASS BY WOMEN GROUPS UNDER THE AGEIS OF WOMENIFESTO THE CONVENINING COALITION OF WOMEN GROUPS FOR #WOMENOCCUPYNASS #BreakThe PoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionalBias #BreakTheRepresentationImbalance #TheConstitutionNigerianWomenWant Gentlemen and Ladies of the Press, Today, women comprised of your mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters […]
GENDER BILLS – WOMEN WILL CONTINUE TO OCCUPY NASS
Dateline: (Abuja) 6th March,2022 #BreakThePoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionBias Nigeria has a woeful women representation in political and elective positions. At the National Assembly (comprising the Senate with 109 members and the House of Representatives with 360 members totaling 469 members of parliament), only 29 are women (six per cent of the total). There are, however, […]
Enough of the Harassment of SERAP and Other NGOs!
March 3, 2022 Last month, Mr. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, in his usual manner, made the unfounded and false statement that some Nigerian NGOs “are working to destabilise Nigeria” – and went on to attack NGOs that had exercised their constitutional right to challenge the Nigerian government in a court […]
WOMEN’S STATEMENT ON THE REJECTION OF GENDER BILLS BY NASS
Dateline: (Abuja) 1 March 2022 #BreakThePoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionBias Nigeria women are disappointed and aggrieved at the actions of the 9th National Assembly (NASS) today Tuesday March 1, 2022 when they denied women the opportunity of inclusion and representation in governance by voting against the gender bills. The NASS has spoken loud and clear that they […]
Release of the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election Held at the Conference Room, INEC Headquarters, Abuja, on Saturday 26th February 2022
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press As you are aware, yesterday, Friday 25th February 2022, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria signed the Electoral Bill 2022 into law. This is historic being the fourth time since the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in May 1999 that the Electoral Act was repealed and re-enacted. […]
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE SIGNING OF ELECTORAL BILL 2022 INTO LAW
STATE HOUSE, ABUJA FRIDAY 24TH FEBRUARY, 2022 The Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2022, passed by the National Assembly forwarded for Presidential Assent, via a letter dated 31st January, 2022. In line with established tradition, I received inputs from relevant ministries, departments and agencies of government after careful and thorough reviews of the Bill and its […]
2023 Elections: EiE Nigeria Rolls Out #MakeNaijaWork Campaign
February 15, 2022 Lagos, Nigeria “Votes don’t count, if there are no votes to count.” ― Demilade Roberts (Photographer & Active Citizen) Foremost good governance and civic advocacy organisation, EiE Nigeria, has officially flagged off its 2022-2023 elections campaign. Under the aegis of the group’s flagship initiative #RSVP – Register | Select | […]