Category: Metro

By: Mandy Park A coalition of pro-labour civil society organisations under the aegis of the Joint Action Front (JAF) has called on Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the management of Lagos State University (LASU) to immediately reinstate five dismissed academic staff members, describing their continued removal as a “grave injustice” and a violation of labour rights. In a statement issued on Friday to mark International Workers’ Day, the group decried what it termed the prolonged victimisation of the lecturers, popularly known as the “ASUU-LASU 5,” nearly a decade after their dismissal. The…

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By: Mandy Park Organisers of the forthcoming Commonwealth Universities Leaders Conference, initially scheduled to take place from April 23 to 24 in Abuja, have announced that the event will be rescheduled due to security concerns. The conference, convened by the Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies, was expected to bring together university leaders, policymakers, and education stakeholders from across the Commonwealth to discuss the future of higher education, collaboration, and institutional leadership. However, in a statement made available to stakeholders, the organisers confirmed that the latest security reports and…

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Photo: Members of the Rights group at briefing By Mandy Park A coalition of human rights organisations has called on the Nigeria Police Force and the Lagos State Police Command to intensify investigations into the killings of two indigenes of Ajiranland, Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State. The victims, Mr. Sheriff Ishola Salami and Prince Kazeem Ademola Akinloye, were murdered in separate incidents that occurred in April 2023 and August 2024, respectively, sparking outrage within the Ajiran community and among civil society groups. The coalition—comprising the Centre for Human…

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Photo: Dr. Eyoanwan Bassey Otu, First Lady, Cross River State By: Mandy Park The First Lady of Cross River State and Founder, Humanity Without Borders Empowerment Initiative, Bishop Dr. (Mrs) Eyoanwan Bassey Otu, has empowered the residents of Odukpani Local Government Area (LGA) of the state with Engine boats, sewing machines, hair dressing salon kits, motorcycles, solar lights, mini buses, pregnant women kits, barbing salon kits, POS machines and Cash grants. This was contained in a report released by Faith Okon-Egbujiem, the Press Secretary to the Wife of the Governor,…

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Photo: CAPPA Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi By: Daniel Kanu As Nigeria joins the global community to mark World Health Day 2026 today, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has urged governments at all levels to move beyond rhetoric and urgently address the chronic underfunding and policy gaps undermining the country’s health sector and worsening its disease burden. In a statement to mark the day, CAPPA decried Nigeria’s persistent failure to adequately fund the health sector over the past decade. Citing data from the Budget Office of the Federation, the…

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Photo: CAPPA’s Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi By Mandy Park CAPPA Urges FG to Raise Tobacco Control Budget, Slams Rising Youth Targeting Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has renewed its call on the Federal Government to significantly increase funding for tobacco control, warning that Nigeria’s current budgetary allocation remains grossly inadequate to address the growing public health threat posed by tobacco and emerging nicotine products. In a statement at the weekend, the organisation urged the government to raise the annual tobacco control allocation to at least N300 million and…

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By Daniel Kanu The Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC) has strongly opposed moves to privatise water resources across the continent, warning that such policies would further deny poor communities access to safe and affordable water, while worsening the burden on women and girls. The coalition, a network of civil society organisations, grassroots communities and trade unions across Africa, reiterated its stance against what it described as the growing corporate capture of water systems, insisting that water must remain a public good accessible to all. Speaking at a press…

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