By Patrick Obia The Commissioner of Police Federal Capital Territory, Abuja has filed a two-count charge on cybercrimes against the Editor-in-Chief of CrossRiverWatch, Citizen Agba Jalingo. The suit with charge number FHC/ABJ/CR/565/2022 has the Commissioner of Police Abuja as the complainant states that the charge is in connection with the article Agba published about Mrs.
By Jonathan Ugbal The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the oil-producing states in Nigeria over “their failure to account for the spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625bn recently paid to them by the Federal Government, including details and locations of projects executed with the money.” The Federal
By Patrick Obia Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Fourth Estate of the Realm – the media as well as the government have been enjoined to collaborate to save the shrinking civic space. This was the affirmation of both state and no state actors in a 2-day Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE), Series Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
By Ogar Monday and Mary Bassey Cross River State has been lauded for making lots of progress on financial reporting, but the state has been asked to improve on its application of the Single Treasury Account (TSA) as the lack of full implementation of the policy has left room for leakages. The assertion was made
By Jonathan Ugbal The We The People Center for Social Studies and Development, WTP – CSSD has threatened to sue International Oil Companies, IOCs for not properly carrying out divestment and abandonment of oil infrastructure after destroying the Niger delta environment in the course of their activities. The Executive Director, Comrade Ken Henshaw stated this
By Jonathan Ugbal Journalists, civil society organizations, and community actors in four states of the Niger Delta region have identified the utilization of beneficial ownership information and data as the panacea for the opacity attributed to the Nigerian extractive sector. The sector comprises the oil and gas subsector and the solid minerals subsector. And, civic
By Angela Atabo, NAN The West Africa Civil Society Institute, WACSI, a brainchild If the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA was on Thursday inaugurated in Nigeria. WACSI was conceptualized and opened in Ghana in 2005. It began operations in 2007 with the mandate to strengthen civil society in West Africa to be responsive,
By Ogar Monday Stakeholders from the Judiciary, Nigerian Police, and civil society have committed to work towards the full implementation of both the Cross River State Violence Against People Prohibition Law (VAPP) and the Disability Rights Law in Cross River State. The stakeholders who said they will start the implementation of the law within their