By Doyin Ojosipe Anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations have expressed dissatisfaction over what they termed as the ‘two faced-ness’ of the Federal Government in the anti-graft war. They noted that the declaration of the federal government in fighting corruption has not been met with genuine clear-cut actions even though CSOs had done their best in ensuring…
AFRICMIL Launches Survey on Five Years of Whistleblowing Policy in Nigeria
By Doyin Ojosipe Investigations have shown that the attitude of the Federal Government towards operationalization of the whistleblowing policy was responsible for the dwindling interest of Nigerians in the whistleblowing policy. A survey by the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) revealed that although many Nigerians are aware of the whistleblowing policy, they…
AFRICMIL Berates FG, As MAF Urges Stakeholders To Invigorate Whistleblowing Policy
By Doyin Ojosipe Whistleblowers are holding- back on blowing the whistle because they are not protected and are not compensated on time the MacArthur Foundation has said. Kole Shetima, Country Director of the Foundation said this while fielding questions from Journalists at a whistleblowing workshop for lawyers which was organised by the African Centre for…
ICPC Commends, Partners AFRICMIL
By Doyin Ojosipe The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Tuesday, agreed to partner with the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) on its whistleblowing initiative tagged Corruption Anonymous (CORA). Olayinka Aiyebayo, Head, Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Division (CMED) at the Commission made this known during a courtesy call by…
Whistleblowing: AFRICMIL Moves to Partner With Lawyers on Pro-bono Basis … As Lawyers Advise FG Against Contradictions
By Doyin Ojosipe The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), Thursday organised a training workshop on whistleblowing and whistleblower protection for selected lawyers in Lagos state. The training which was in collaboration with SERAP was intended to establish a team of lawyers who would provide legal services on pro-bono to embattled whistle-blowers. In…