Renowned anti – corruption crusader nongovernmental organisation (NGO) Social Development Integrated Centre (SDIC) – Social Action, Nigeria, in collaboration with MacArthur foundation has noted that the Niger Delta region has no reason to be underdeveloped considering the amount of resources as well as number of intervention programmes and agencies devoted to the development of the region.

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the Federal Government is still servicing the $460 million loan got for failed Abuja CCTV project.

She spoke on Thursday at the defence of the 2020 budget proposed by her ministry.

The House of Representatives Committee on Finance has demanded further explanations on the $460m Abuja CCTV project from the Ministry of Finance.

Chairman of the committee, Rep. James Faleke (APC-Lagos), at a budget defence session with the ministry on Thursday in Abuja, said there was the need for Nigerians to get value for monies paid.

“Before this administration, we collected some loans and the one that strikes me the most is the $460m for CCTV installation in Abuja.

This is despite a 2018 ruling by the Court of Appeal mandating all states of the federation to reply all FOI’s sent to them.

The Rivers State Government has kept mum over requests sent to it under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act to explain why certain projects under Governor Nyesom Wike have remained abandoned.

This is despite a 2018 ruling by the Court of Appeal mandating all states of the federation to reply all FOI’s sent to them.

Social Action, a Port Harcourt based Civil Society Organization have today convened a town hall meeting in Port Harcourt to review UNEP report recommendations implementation.

The town hall meeting had in attendance representatives from Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP), representatives from different Civil Society Organizations in Rivers State as well as traditional and youth leaders of affected communities from Ogoni.

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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja on Monday 22nd July 2019 was thrown into chaos as the members of the Islamic movement of Nigeria (IMN) popularly known as the Shiite clashed with the police.

The clash which took place at the Federal Secretariat Abuja, led to the preventable death of 10 members of the group, a corps member serving with the channels television and the deputy commissioner of police in charge of FCT.

Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project(HYPREP) has told a Non Governmental Organization, Social Development Integrated Centre(Social Action, Nigeria) that the organization cannot make available its frame work for Ogoni Clean-up implementation to Social Action or the public because the information involves internal management procedure.

The Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action, Nigeria) has raised a three-point query to the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP demanding the Ogoni Clean-up implementation framework or timetable showing activities’ schedule, inception to date and in-view.
Speaking at a civil society organizations/media forum in Port Harcourt on Monday, Vivian Bellonwu, Head, National Advocacy Centre, Social Action revealed that the group’s query is based on the Freedom of Information Act, noting that it also demanded two other major information relating to the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report on the clean-up of Ogoniland.

PORT HARCOURT— A rights group, Social Action, SA, has tasked the Hydrocarbon Remediation Pollution Project, HYPREP, to release the framework set out for the clean-up of the oil polluted Ogoniland, alleging that the agency lacked transparency. SA also urged HYPREP to be transparent and accountable to people of Ogoni and Niger Delta, noting that the body (HYPREP) is a public institution and ought to be trusted. Head, National Advocacy Centre of Social Action, Vivian Bellonwu, spoke in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, after submitting a letter requesting information on Ogoni clean-up and project contracts to HYPREP.

The latest statistics by the National Bureau of statistics, NBS on women and men in Nigeria for 2018 is indeed gloomy and casts a strong shadow on the claims of gains in gender advancement and women development in Nigeria.