6 Months On
January Thursday Talks
Join us for the first edition of Thursday Talks in 2021 as we talk about Education Financing. Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was on strike for 9 months last year. This model is NOT working! Register here to join the conversation! We also welcome The Cable as our media partner this year!
Armed Forces Remembrance Day
The labour of our heroes past, shall never be in vain!
Public Interest Litigation Committee – Olumide Babalola
In light of recent events, the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has empanelled a 13-member NBA Public Interest Litigation Committee (PILC) with a mandate to, among other things, actively take steps to restore and reinforce the faith of the society in law as a veritable tool to bringing solutions to societal issues and checking abuse of power. Mr […]
#UgandaDecides2021
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is leading in the country’s presidential election with 63% according to provisional results released on Friday, January 15th. His main opponent, Bobi Wine is trailing with 29% and has claimed the election was marred by “widespread fraud”.
National Identification Number
Is being Nigerian now synonymous with suffering? On Wednesday, December 16th, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) gave telecommunication companies (TelCos) – MTN, Glo, Airtel, 9Mobile and others – two weeks to block at least 20 million unique subscribers who are not registered with National Identity Numbers (NINs). […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen – 26 Radio Shows
EiE Nigeria and Paradigm Initiative (PIN) partnered to host a special 4-week #OfficeOfTheCitizen Radio program in 26 states on social media regulation which comes to an end this week. Guests discussed the risks social media regulation poses to our democracy and recommended alternatives to social media regulation. Our exciting program on COVID-19 is still ongoing in 14 northern states. Watch […]
#myLG Town Hall Meeting
#myLG project is aimed at ensuring active citizens’ participation in local governance. A #myLG town hall meeting to charge citizens to play their part in keeping the government accountable held in Zamfara State on Tuesday, December 15th. Sole Administrators from Anka, Birnin Magaji, Gummi and Shinkafi LGAs engaged citizens at the town hall meeting. Catch up here.
Fainters Club of Nigeria
Daniel Pondei of NDDC who? Meet Abulrasheed Maina, the latest “recruit” into the Fainters Club of Nigeria. Mr Maina, who is the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Force Team, borrowed a leaf from the book of his “fainting fathers” when he slumped shortly after the court resumed proceedings on Thursday, December 10th, on the allegation […]
Human Rights Day
On Thursday, December 10th, Nigeria joined the rest of the globe to mark #HumanRightsDay while our freedom of speech, assembly & association continue to be under threat. Amidst the unabated attacks on the media and the hot air coming from the security agencies which has forced many into self-censorship, we celebrate individuals and organizations who have, through their time and […]