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ECOWAS commission calls for whistle blower protection laws

ECOWAS commission calls for whistle blower protection laws

The ECOWAS Commission on Tuesday urged ECOWAS Parliamentarians to enact laws and take other appropriate measures to protect whistle blowers in the sub-region. Mr Eyesan Okorodudu, Head, Democracy and Good Governance, ECOWAS Commission, said this in a paper he presented on “ECOWAS Protocol on Anti-Corruption and the Regional Network (NACIWA): What Progress?” He gave the

Shrinking civic space: Civil society condemns attacks, clampdown, arbitrary arrest, detention

Press Release  Since return of democracy in 1999 and particularly following the 2019 general elections, the citizens were very hopefully of renewed vigor in addressing the myriad of problems bedeviling the country ranging from intensification of insecurity, the deepening of corruption, growing poverty and unemployment as well as flagrant and frequent disrespect of the rule of

Stop threatening journalist, CWPPF warns Tony Nwulu

Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) is alarmed at a press statement by Mr. Tony Nwulu wherein he reiterated earlier threats made against our member and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of OrderPaper Nigeria, Mr. Oke Epia. Mr. Nwulu’s bogus and baseless tagging of Epia as a politician and not a journalist is ridiculous and exposes him

Coalition chides Reps member over harassment, threats to Journalist

Press release The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom condemns the attack and harassment on one of its members, Order Paper, by Hon. Tony Nwulu representing Oshodi/ Isolo Federal constituencies of Lagos state. The coalition refers to the threats to the staff of OrderPaper and its Publisher, Mr Epia, and considers the Honorable’s actions

Nomination of former AGF Malami, a major blight and threat to Nigeria’s anticorruption – Civil Society Groups

Press Statement July 29, 2019 (Abuja, Nigeria) Mr. Abubakar Malami’s return as a returning federal ministerial nominee casts serious doubts on President Muhammadu Buhari anticorruption posturing. The last four years, Mr. Malami constituted himself as the “barrier-in-chief” to the President’s anti-corruption campaign, failing to provide much needed leadership, frustrating several high-profile corruption cases, blocking requests

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