The African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has been engaging the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) on the whistleblower policy of the federal government of Nigeria with a view to popularising the policy and supporting its implementation through its accountability and good governance project titled Corruption Anonymous (CORA). The project is supported…
AFRICMIL commends Fashola, FMBN Board for reinstating whistleblower
Press Release The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has commended the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, and the Board of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) for the reinstatement of Murtala Ibrahim, a whistleblower in the Bank. Ibrahim was reinstated following the recommendations of the report of…
Despite gains, Nigeria’s whistleblowing policy not enough to fight corruption
By Peter Nkanga The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) on December 17, 2018, welcomed the public to a national stakeholders’ summit organised to assess the impact of Nigeria’s whistleblower policy in fighting corruption in the country. Representatives of civil society groups, anti-graft agencies, the media, lawyers, human rights defenders, and citizen activists…
Restructuring: Buhari missed golden opportunity – Gov. Dickson
Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, on Friday extended the frontiers of the restructuring debate, saying President Muhammadu Buhari missed a golden opportunity to become a great statesman by vehemently rejecting his party, the All Progressives Congress’s position on the restructuring of Nigeria. He also said that it is a major tragedy for Nigeria…
Whistleblowing at 2: More still needs to be done, say stakeholders
Stakeholders on Monday, December 17, reiterated the need for the Federal Government to be sincere and resolute in the fight against corruption. They made the call at a national summit organised by the African Centre for Media & Information (AFRICMIL) to mark two years of the whistleblowing policy introduced in December 2016. The stakeholders agreed…