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Eminent Environmentalist, Nnimmo Bassey, Mentors Makoko Children, Fetes Fisherfolks

Eminent Environmentalist, Nnimmo Bassey, Mentors Makoko Children, Fetes Fisherfolks

Nigeria’s leading environmental activist, Nnimmo Bassey, was recently at Makoko, a Lagos fishing community and Nigeria’s largest informal settlement, raising the hopes of community members, old and young, for brighter days amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Bassey, director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and a 2010 recipient of the Right Livelihoods Awards (aka

EiE Invites Citizens to Hack Nigeria’s Operating System (OS)

Press Release “There is an urgent and massive need for moral and spiritual reconstruction: the kind which will help to demolish morbid desire for naked power and domination and ensure justice, equity and fair play for all.” – Obafemi Awolowo (Nationalist and First Premier of the Western Region) 2020 is the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s

World Whistleblowing Day: AFRICMIL calls for passage of whistleblower protection law in Nigeria

Press Release                                                                                                                June 23, 2020 The African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has called for the passage of a whistleblower protection law in Nigeria. In a statement to mark this year’s World Whistleblowing Day, the organisation noted that Nigeria is playing catch-up with an issue other African countries like Ghana, South

Nigeria: Control of Infectious Diseases Bill – Civil society recommends guidelines for public hearing

Statement by Civil Society Organizations on the House of Representatives decision to Conduct Public Hearing for the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill The Nigeria Civil Society community commends the decision of the House of Representatives to subject the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill to a public hearing in furtherance of the right of citizens to

Interreligious and intercultural dialogue: when journalists met religious leaders at a roundtable

By Doyin Ojosipe It was a cool but charged atmosphere on March 24, 2020, when journalists and religious leaders faced one another other at the conference room of the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), Abuja. The occasion was a roundtable dialogue organised by AFRICMIL for the media and religious leaders in the

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