COP25: Groups reject carbon markets, demand real solutions to climate change
As the
25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins in Madrid...
Nwanguma, NOPRIN coordinator, quits, joins RULAAC as executive director
Okechukwu Nwanguma, National Coordinator of Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), has left the organisation.
He has...
Lagosians fight to keep water taps away from capitalism
Philip Jakpor reclines in his chair, his fingers drumming lightly on the wooden table inside his Lagos office.
Advocate groups hail Senate, Tinubu over resolution on ban of tobacco sales around schools
By Daniel Kanu
Assistant Politics Editor
Two major tobacco control groups, Nigeria Tobacco Control Research Group (NTCRG); and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN),...
2018 World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco control groups demand action
By Daniel Kanu
Assistant Politics Editor
The 2018 World No Tobacco Day Commemoration was colorful in Abuja as civil society and student groups marched through the...
Lagos ‘pipeline’ explosion is suspiciously different, says ERA/FoEN
By Valentine Amanze
The Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Federal Government to...
Some of 20,000 Nigerians in sex cells in Mali refuse repatriation
By
Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Another
batch of 20,000 Nigerian women, aged...
Still on Shisha, the silent killer
By Daniel Kanu
Assistant Politics Editor
Early this year, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) raised the alarm on the growing rate of...
Dilemma of the African girl child
October 11 was marked all over the world as International Day of the Girl Child. The day was marked in Nigeria with messages of...
The other side of rape
Rape, that horrible act, has refused to leave our courtrooms, despite harsh sentences on convicts. Reporter, MARY OGEDENGBE, writes on an organisation’s effort to...