By: SERAP Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the Federal Government, asking “the authorities to urgently publish details of the suppliers and contractors, the procurement rules, including bidding processes, the total budget, and all designated voucher distribution and collection sites for the implementation of the school feeding programme
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A group in Lagos State, Arewa Council of Chiefs, has slammed the state’s Commissioner of Waterfront, Architect Ahmed Kabiru Abdullahi, for allegedly claiming that the council had been giving ‘several tones’ of rice. The council in a statement made available to THE DAILY VENDOR said it has not received even a grain of rice from
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The Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, South East Zone condemns in entirety the dissent to dictatorship and anti democratic actions of the Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Dave Nwaeze Umahi. Umahi bared his fangs yesterday 22nd April 2020 in a statewide broadcast where he unilaterally proclaimed a “life ban” from government house on two Journalists working in
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “the blatant intimidation, harassment and attacks on journalists and media houses by Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, and the illegal banning of the Correspondent of The Sun newspaper, Chijioke Agwu, and the Vanguard Newspaper, Peter Okutu, from entering Government house and Government facilities in the State
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The Anambra State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned police brutality in the state which led to the killing of two youths. The Publicity Secretary of PDP in the state, Mr Nnamdi Nwangwu in a press statement said the murder of two youths in Nkpor in Idemili North local government area of
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ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE EXTENSION OF COVID- 19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA MONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians 2. In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal
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Air Peace has denied reports that three of its crew members absconded from the quarantine facility of the Lagos Government. Its Chief Operating Officer, Mrs Toyin Olajide, made the denial in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday. Olajide was refering to one of its aircraft operated by Boeing B777-200ER (P4 5-NBVE) which airlifted medical
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The Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has been described as an uncommon humane and considerate Servant of his people. The Deputy Chief of Staff in the office of the Deputy Governor, Sir Don Ubani, made the assertion in response to the Governor’s directive that the lockdown in Abia State be relaxed between 6am and
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), National Secretariat is alarmed by the decision of the Federal Government to bring Chinese Medical doctors to Nigeria to fight Covid 19, despite the fact that Nigerian doctors are reportedly doing exceptionally well in fighting the outbreak. “We caution that it will be counterproductive to bring in Chinese doctors”. NUJ in
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The Anambra State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano to expedite action towards equipping the isolation centers in the state. This call was contained in a press release signed by the Publicity Secretary PDP in the state, Mr Nnamdi Nwangwu made available to journalists in
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A Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka, has called on politicians (irrespective of party affiliation) to use their campaign structures to spread awareness about the dreaded novel coronavirus as part of efforts to prevent the pandemic from spreading to our villages and local communities. Chidoka made the call in a statement issued by Mr
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The Executive Chairman of the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman has cautioned the President Muahmadu Buhari led Federal Government to stop blaming the current upheaval being experience in the implementation of the 2020 on the prevailing Coronal Virus upheaval. Rather Sulaiman stated that what the government lacked was
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….Backs Falana’s position A human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has strongly condemned the dethronement and banishment of former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Emir of Kano Emirate, His Highness Muhammed Lamido Sanusi II by Kano State Governor, Mr. Abdullahi Ganduje, noting that Kano State governor action was abused of power
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In Nigeria, a group, Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED), has condemned the alleged harassment of Premium Times editors and reporter by the Department of State Services (DSS). The group said that the Premium Times reporter, Samuel Ogundipe, might have gone underground after the DSS launched a manhunt for him. Home of
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“I am the leader of Uthman Danfodio dynasty. I have never seen where in the hundred books that Uthman Danfodio said Nigeria belongs to the Fulani. What he wrote was the role of Islam in leadership, governance etc. He never mentioned of conquering any particular land or claimed ownership of any territory. People make comments
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