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CSO raises alarm over alleged compromise of Imo Guber election

Ihesiulo Grace 22 August 2023 0

…petitions INEC, seeks transfer of REC Sylva Agu and 27 EOs By Tunde Opalana A Civil Society Organisation CSO, known as International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, has raised alarm over alleged plot to compromise Imo Governorship election scheduled to hold November 2023. The CSO

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CSO raises alarm over alleged compromise of Imo Guber election

Ihesiulo Grace 21 August 2023 0

…petitions INEC, seeks transfer of REC Sylva Agu and 27 EOs By Tunde Opalana A Civil Society Organisation CSO, known as International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, has raised alarm over alleged plot to compromise Imo Governorship election scheduled to hold November 2023. The CSO who petitioned Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC […]

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TUC, CSO tackle government over unemployment rate

Ihesiulo Grace 18 August 2020 0

By Ukpono Ukpong Trade Union Congress (TUC), the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and concerned Nigerians have hit hard on the Federal Government following the recently released report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showing that 27.1 per cent of able-bodied and willing-to-work Nigerians were unemployed as at the second quarter of 2020. TUC President […]

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CSOs query plans to release genetically- engineered mosquitoes

Ihesiulo Grace 7 July 2020 0

More than 75 environmental civil society organisations from Nigeria, Africa and other countries have condemned moves to open way for the release of genetically-modified mosquitoes to control malaria infection. Speaking at a virtual meeting of the West African Integrated Vector Management Programme on June 6, vice chairman of the programme said, Mr. Rufus Ebegba: “There

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CSO Urges More Regional Collaboration to Defeat Insurgents

Ihesiulo Grace 11 June 2020 0

The Coalition of Nigerian Youth for Peace and Development has said for there to be total victory against insurgency and banditry in the country, there must a sincere regional collaboration between the Nigerian troops and  the troops of the neighbouring countries.  The group was reacting to recent attacks by the insurgents in Borno State and […]

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Deportation of Almajiris by northern govs unconstitutional, abuse of fundamental rights, says CSO

Ihesiulo Grace 30 April 2020 0

A civil society group, Concerned Nigerians, has queried the rationale behind the deportation of Almajiris by state governors in the North to their home states, describing the action as unconstitutional and abuse of the fundamental rights of the kids. The Almajiris had been deported in large numbers from Kano and Plateau states to their states […]

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CSO, others seek removal of police prosecutorial powers

Ihesiulo Grace 19 February 2020 0

A coalition of Edo state civil society organisations has called on the federal and Edo state governments to strip the police of the power to prosecute criminal suspects in order to end the violation of citizens’ right. The coalition made the call in Benin on Wednesday during a one-day working meeting on accountable governance, justice and […]

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Insecurity: CSO advocates emergency budget for Police

Ihesiulo Grace 19 February 2020 0

Societal Safety Network, a CSO, has called on the Senate to facilitate emergency funds to address oversight in the budget of the Nigeria Police Force. Mr Abdulrahman Agboola, Executive Director of the organisation, gave the advice in a letter to the Senate President on Wednesday in Abuja. Read also: Police arrest female suspect over alleged […]

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Stop blackmailing Nigeria over Sowore, CSO warns SERAP

Ihesiulo Grace 21 November 2019 0

By Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The Social Society for Peace and Social Justice (NSPSJ) has come hard on the Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over what they described as multiple and bare faced lies delibrlately spurned to destabilize  the  country by giving it a bad image before Nigerians and the International Community.  Addressing a […]

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Kogi election violence: CSOs want speedy take-off of Electoral Offences Commission

Ihesiulo Grace 17 November 2019 0

The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room has called for speedy setting up of the proposed Electoral Offences Commission to address issues related to electoral abuse as reported in the Kogi governorship election.

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CSO intervention yielding sustainability in mining sector-consensus forum

Ihesiulo Grace 18 May 2018 0

The intervention of the Civil Society Organisation in the mining sector in Ekiti State is already yielding results. This among others were the submission of stakeholders during a consensus forum organised in Ado Ekiti which focussed on policy dialogue on mining security and the challenges of sustainability in Ekiti State on Thursday. Some of the […]

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Al-Mustapha denies leaving GPN, says those behind his exit rumour are mischief makers

Ihesiulo Grace 16 May 2018 0

Former Chief Security Officer (CSO), to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (Rtd), has described as “false and mischief,” a report that he has abandoned the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN), where he is a major stakeholder. Reacting to the report in Abuja yesterday in a release signed by his […]

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CSOs, farmers’ group seek involvement in agric budget process

Ihesiulo Grace 10 May 2018 0

A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and Small-scale Women Farmers’ Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) Wednesday urged the Kwara House of Assembly to always involve the organizations for articulation of informed decisions. Daily times, reports that the organisations were in the house on a parliamentary briefing of the Analysis of Kwara 2018 Agricultural Budget

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CSOs charge Senate not to renege on promises to NDLEA

Ihesiulo Grace 24 December 2017 0

A coalition of civil society organizations in Kano has charged the Senate to keep to promises made in Kano during a two- day round table discussion in Kano on drug related matters to accord the National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA support in its fight against drug abuse cases which has become a menace […]

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Police: we redeployed Wike’s CSO, says IGP

Ihesiulo Grace 8 December 2016 0

The Nigeria Police has explained the reason behind the redeployment of DSP Promise Nwosu, the Chief Security Officer to Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, saying it was due to his gross professional misconduct. Force headquarters said it observed the innuendos, distortion of facts and wild allegations peddled in the mass media following the redeployment of […]

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Kashamu's Abduction, Threat to Nigeria's Sovereignty- CSO

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2015 0

A Civil Society Organisation, African Civil Liberty Committee on Rendition has described alleged plans by the United States to abduct Prince Kashamu Buruku to face American law courts as a threat to Nigeria’s sovereignty. This was made known in a statement signed by the organisation’s Country Director, Mr. Sunday Philips where the organisation described the