Press Statement

FG Allocates N81.7bn for Streetlights Construction

Thursday, June 1, 2023
Tracka, BudgIT rsquo;s service delivery promotion platform, which allows citizens to collaborate, track and give feedback on public projects in their communities, has discovered that a total of N81.7 billion was allocated to the construction of solar street lights in the 2023 FG Capital and Constitu ...

Hajj 2023: Hajj Reporters Deploys Team To Monitor Pilgrims’ Officials, Service P

Thursday, June 1, 2023
The Independent Hajj Reporters (IHR) has set up a 5-man team that will monitor the activities of appointed hajj officials and service providers to Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia. The team will work with the Inspectorate and Evaluation Committee of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCO ...

Nigeria Air: Anti-corruption Body Drags Sirika To EFCC, Wants Minister Probed Fo

Sunday, May 28, 2023
A Nigeria-based anti-corruption group, SecureWorld and Liberty Initiative for Peace, SELIP, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe the outgoing Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, for allegedly using the establishment of a national carrier, Nigeria Air, to perpetr ...

MRA Urges Incoming President Bola Tinubu to Make

Sunday, May 28, 2023
LAGOS, Sunday, May 28, 2023: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to make transparency and accountability the cornerstone of Nigeria rsquo;s democracy and accused outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari of monumental failure in the implementation of the F ...

CISLAC calls For Reversal Of Abuja, Kano Airports’ Concession

Thursday, May 25, 2023
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has called for the immediate reversal of the concessioning of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. The Executive Director of CISLAC, Comrade Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, in a stateme ...

Show of Shame: Restructure NDDC, Sack Onochie, Ogbuku Now, South-south Elders Ur

Wednesday, May 24, 2023
South-south elders have sent a passionate appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari, to immediately relive the chairperson of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs Lauretta Onochie and the managing director, Mr. Samuel Ogbuku, for engaging in a public show of shame barely five months after as ...

CSO Urges Governors-elect To Avoid Political Changes That May Disrupt 2023 Hajj

Tuesday, May 23, 2023
The Independent Hajj Reporters has urged governors-elect to sustain the ongoing hajj operation in their various states by avoiding unnecessary political changes that may disrupt the successful completion of the 2023 hajj exercise. The airlift of Nigerian pilgrims will begin on Thursday, 25 May, a ...

Corruption allegations: Like Magu, Bawa must quit now, face probe panel - Over 1

Friday, May 19, 2023
Following Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State 39;s bombshell, on Wednesday, that he and some other prominent Nigerians have evidence of corrupt practices against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, notable Anti-Corruption crusaders in Nigeria, numb ...

Hajj Airlift: Cso Urges For Improved Security Across Airports, Hajj Camps

Thursday, May 18, 2023
As the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) gets set to begin the transportation of Nigerian intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia on the 25th of May 2023, Independent Hajj Reporters (IHR), a Media Related Civil Society Organisation (CSO) that monitors and reports on Hajj and Umrah activities h ...

ECOWAS Court Sets May 19 for Hearing of MRA’s Suit to Compel Nigerian  Governme

Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Lagos, Wednesday, May 17, 2023: The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has fixed hearing for May 19, 2023 in a suit filed by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) seeking to compel the Federal Government to properly investigate the unresolved killings of 11 journalists killed over a period of two ...
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