COMMUNIQUE: ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Department of Agriculture & Water Resources of the ECOWAS COMMISSION organised a 2-day Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2022 Agriculture Budget at Dover Hotel, Lagos State, 2nd – 3rd August 2021.

    Preamble ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Department of Agriculture & Water Resources of the ECOWAS COMMISSION organised a 2-day Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2022 Agriculture Budget at Dover Hotel, Lagos State, 2nd – 3rd August 2021….

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Inability to Access credit, financial services by Small holder women farmers worries Stakeholders

  Access to credit and financial services (from government and non-governmental channels) by Small holder farmers particularly women, placed at an average of 43% has been described as very poor. The observation was raised at the ActionAid Nigeria’s Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2022 Agriculture Budget, with the call on Government to put in place measures that would…

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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE 1-DAY CAPACITY BUILDING FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSOS) ON CHARTER OF DEMANDS ON PRIORITIZING ANTI-CORRUPTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY ISSUES DURING THE UPCOMING 2023 ELECTIONS AT STATE LEVEL. ORGANIZED BY THE CONSCIENCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION (CHRCR) IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CIVIL SOCIETY LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY CENTRE (CISLAC) WITH SUPPORT OF MAC-ARTHUR FOUNDATION. HELD AT HALIMS HOTEL, LOKOJA, KOGI STATE ON MONDAY 2ND AUGUST 2021.

  *BACKGROUND:* The 1-Day capacity Building Workshop was organized to build the capacity of Civil Society Organizations and selected Media organizations and practitioners on prioritizing Anti-Corruption and Accountability issues during the upcoming 2023 General Elections in Kogi State. In attendance were selected Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Human Rights Activist, Media Organizations/Practitioners, Representatives of Women and…

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ERA/FoEN Tasks  Shell On   Accountability

——— Ask To Halt Divestment Of  Oil Facilities By Ikhili Ebalu Benin City Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN),  has Condemned the  action being proposed by Shell  to sell its land based and shallow offshore oil fields and infrastructures in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. In a press statement issued and signed…

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Kogi PDP hail and hearty, says Spokesperson

  The Kogi State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP has described as paranoic and unfortunate, a statement credited to Mr Wemi Jones, the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, in which he launched an attack on the party. Jones had during the All Progressives Congress, APC ward Congress in Kabba-Bunu Local Government…

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