It could be the ways of God or just a happenstance. Whichever one it is, it is a very powerful convergence of angst against the conduct and outcome of gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa and... Read more
Less than 48 hours to November 16th, 2019, Governorship election in Kogi State in North Central Nigeria, the alarm bells are ringing from the Centre for Democracy and Development, (CDD), the... Read more
The first set of Election Monitors, Observers Teams and sundry assessors of last Saturday poll have passed the election as well conducted. The ECOWAS Observation Mission headed by Ellen John... Read more
In the posh Transcorp Hilton in the heart of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city is located the Civil Society Situation Room on the series of elections that were to have started earlier today, Feb... Read more
Nigeria is once again in the global headlines for the wrong reason. This time, it is its incidence of ‘fake news’ that is to be investigated. Even then, the research is to be con... Read more
There appears to be no let up in the Nigerian civil society’s siege on the phenomenon of hate speeches which peaked in a week long list of activities thereto last week in Abuja. Now, t... Read more
Although it remains unclear why there is no voice from Southern and/or Eastern Africa, it is still the continent’s date with democracy when high profile activists engage “Three Decades of De... Read more
Death has struck again in the community of activists in Nigeria a month after the death of Professor Abubakar Momoh and two weeks after the death of Professor Funmi Adewumi, a leading left a... Read more
Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), two leading Nigerian based civil society organisations have commenced consultations with th... Read more
Fewer and fewer statements concerning inclusion of poor people into the economy are heard nowadays in Nigeria. Instead of such statements, the society is served a menu of very obvious... Read more
