Dr. Chido Onumah, Coordinator of the centre, said the platform: Corruption Anonymous, would deepen accountability in governance.
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The exercise is ahead of the groups’ participation at the 21st edition of the Annual Nigerian International Book Fair held from May 12-14, 2022.
Edited by Chido Onumah, the 437-page book is a collection of 60 essays by 60 young Nigerians to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence.
A coalition of media and civil society group will on Thursday hold a colloquium to address the shrinking media and civic space in Nigeria and attack on journalists, media organizations and civic activists.
In the book, Onumah analyzed the myriad of challenges facing Nigeria, to posit that “the different manifestation of Biafra may well be a metaphor and, to that extent, we are all Biafrans as long as we seek to confront the clear and present danger.” The book, of course, had been launched since 2016, with the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, and a number of government officials gleefully in attendance.
The position of the DSS was contained in a statement by its spokesman, Peter Afunanya.
On World Whistleblowing Day celebrated June 23 every year, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy has called on the Nigerian Government to make the protection of whistleblowers a priority in its fight against corruption.
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy has commended the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission for investigating and issuing a report on the petition alleging corrupt practices and abuse of office against Dr. Marilyn Amobi, MD/CEO of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company Plc.
A book of essays in honour of frontline journalist, Dapo Olorunyomi, will be unveiled on May 27 at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, a non-governmental organization focused on good governance and the promotion of accountability, has applied to the Code of Conduct Bureau for the asset declaration of the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed.
The Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, will be the keynote speaker at the public presentation of the book: “We Are All Biafrans,” by journalist and rights activist, Chido Onumah, on December 21, 2018 at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.
One thing supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari can’t deny is that many of those who oppose him today, almost three and half years after he was sworn in as the fourth president of the Fourth Republic, rooted for him 2015. Many of them are not politicians; they are not angry because Presdient Buhari has blocked their illegal sources of wealth; and they are not people who have cases with anti-corruption agencies. I am one of them.
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy on Thursday urged the Federal Government to guard the integrity of the whistle-blowing policy by protecting the blowers.
In the petition signed by Chido Onumah, Coordinator of the Centre, AFRCMIL is seeking the urgent intervention of these institutions to investigate and call to order Nwadike of the Legal Department of the Nigeria Police Force and a prosecuting counsel for the police in a dubious allegation leveled against Aaron Kaase, a whistleblower in the PSC.
The Coordinator, African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, Chido Onumah, stated this in a press statement on Wednesday.
Coordinator of the centre, Chico Onumah, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, commended the court for the judgment, which also included order for payment of salaries of the lawmaker for the suspension period.
AFRICMIL described the judgment handed down May 24, 2018 by Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja as the triumph of constitutional democracy and an enduring affirmation of the sanctity of the protection of whistleblowers.
Reacting to the public spat between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the organisation said the Federal Government has a duty to probe “all grey areas in every administration, beyond the alleged $16 billion power sector expenditure”.
A letter signed by its Coordinator, Chido Onumah, AFRICMIL, a civil society organisation committed to creating awareness and advancing the safety of whistleblowers, said it was imperative for the Minister of Education to look into the case as any step taken to deny him his entitlements as a patriotic and upright retiring public servant will spell doom for the fight against corruption