Wadata Media and Advocacy Center (WAMAC) called for collective effort to fight corruption in Nigeria. WAMAC supported by MacArthur Foundation held a town hall meeting in Maiduguri on Saturday, as part of its advocacy campaign against Corruption, themed “Community Participation in the fight
Wadata Media and Advocacy Centre (WAMAC) an NGO with the support of MacArthur Foundation held a Town Hall Meeting to Amply the Fight against Corruption in Local Languages with a theme: “Community Participation in the Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria Using Local Languages” held on 14th August 2021 at Dujima International Hotel Maiduguri, Borno State. […]
The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has described the indictment of several Federal Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAS) of financial mismanagement in the 2016 Auditor-General’s Annual Report as depressing and an embarrassment unworthy of public consumption. HEDA’s Executive Director, Olanrewaju Suraju made this known
The Nigerian Government is making plans to curb the use of WhatsApp – a free and encrypted multi platform messaging application and Thuraya satellite phones in the country. The sum of $9.6m about #4.8b is provided in the 2021 supplementary budget passed by the National Assembly for the Nigerian Intelligence Agency – NIA to carry […]
The 17 Southern Govenors have unanimously agreed that for equality, fairness, justice, progress and peaceful co-existence between and among Nigerians, the next President should come from the South. In a communique read by their forum’s Chairman, the Governor of Ondo State Rotimi Akeredolu, at the end of their meeting in Lagos on Monday, the Governors […]
Reports from Zaria, Kaduna state say bandits in their large numbers attacked the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre, Saye, Zaria in the wee hours of Sunday and abducted 8 persons. A source at the Centre says those abducted include 3 males and 5 females. The females are all alleged to be nursing mothers who were […]
The Kaduna state police command has confirmed the death of one child while two others were injured when suspected improvised explosive devices the children picked up and were playing with them as football exploded in the Badarawa area of Kaduna on Saturday. One of the two injured children has since been discharged while the other […]
The Department of State Security – DSS has confirmed that it carried out a raid on the residence of the Yoruba Separatist Leader Sunday Adeyemo a. k. a. Sunday Igboho in the Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The DSS said it carried out the predawn attack on Thursday following intelligence reports that Igboho had […]
A middle-aged man, Sello Abram Mapunya, found guilty of raping different women at different times, has been sentenced to 1,088 years imprisonment. Mapunya was believed to have raped and robbed his victims in Pretoria, South Africa within a period of five years. He was sentenced on Thursday by Judge Papi Mosopa of the Pretoria High […]
Following the end of a two-year involvement in efforts to reduce the scourge of corruption at all levels in Nigeria, the Progressive Impact Organisation for Community Development (PRIMORG) presented its report at a ceremony in Abuja attended by stakeholders in the anti-corruption community. Dr. Kole Shettima, Director, Africa Office of McArthur Foundation, in his keynote











