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…
ARTICLE 19, AFRICMIL, HEDA, RULAAC warn of deteriorating civic space in Nigeria
ARTICLE 19, African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) and Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) today urged the Nigerian authorities to commit to freedom of expression and assembly and end the arrests of people for expressing their opinions. Nigeria should immediately release anyone…
AFRICMIL congratulates new NBET boss, urges openness and transparency
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has congratulated Dr. Nnaemeka Ewelukwa on his appointment as the new MD/CEO of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) PLC. In a letter signed by Chido Onumah, Coordinator of AFRICMIL, the organization said: “We are immensely gratified by this appointment and note with great delight your resolve…
#WhistleblowingNigeria: How Funding is Affecting COVID-19 Research in Nigerian Universities
By Chiamaka Okafor Since the COVID-19 pandemic made a major landfall in the country early this year, the Nigerian science community has paved some fitful but significantly innovative paths in the bid to join a global community of peers wrestling with answers to the conundrum posed by perhaps the most transmissible virus in the recent…