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NPSA Communique of the Meeting on Reforming the Electoral Process in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: 2023 General Elections, Ad-hoc staff, CISLAC, First-Past-the-Post System, Foreign interests in Nigerian elections, INEC, MacArthur Foundation, Modified FPTP, National Commissioners, NPSA, Political parties, Resident Electoral Commissioners, Uwais CommitteeNo CommentsViews:

On-going electoral experience in Nigeria makes some of the recommendations here crucial inputs and the communique publishable in its entirety. Or so does Intervention think, even if only for... Read more

NPSA Releases 25 Governance Items in an Agenda for the Government in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, BRICS, CISLAC, Foreign Affairs, High cost of governance, Joint Accounts, NPSANo CommentsViews:

Nigeria is again, caught in a deep and troubling state of affairs, spanning a thick judicial tussle; a severe crisis of cost of living, violent forms of accumulation such as violent extracti... Read more

If Nigeria Has N500 for Palliatives, Can’t It Experiment With Something Better?

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Charly Boy, CISLAC, Fair Trade, IMF/World Bank, Kano State Government, Peter Obi, SERAP, State Farms, Tender-preneursNo CommentsViews:

It is still a sprinkle of endorsing and opposing standpoints to the Federal Government of Nigeria’s plan to spend over N500b on palliatives to cushion the crippling effects of the fuel subsi... Read more

Count TMG, Kano CS Election Situation Room Out of Any Protestation of Kano Govship Outcome – CISLAC

Posted By: adminon: March 25, 2023In: GovernanceTags: APC, CISLAC, Kano State, NNPP, TMGNo CommentsViews:

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and the Kano State Civil Society Elections Situation Room are jointly distancing themselves from bei... Read more

Like the NLC, CISLAC Calls Nigerian Governors’ Proposals on Healing the Economy Deceitful

Posted By: adminon: August 15, 2022In: GovernanceTags: CISLAC, GDP, Income inequality, Naira, Nigerian Governors Forum, NLC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, WorkersNo CommentsViews:

The civil society in Nigeria is obviously not done with tackling state governors in the country who collectively fired a package of proposals to the Federal Government on how to heal the cou... Read more

Why Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption War is Not Flying and How to Make It Fly – CISLAC

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Auditor-General of the Federation, CBN, CISLAC, CRU, NJC, Reporters Without BordersNo CommentsViews:

By CISLAC Introduction Today, (January 25th, 2022), Transparency International (TI) Released the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Released exclusively in Nigeria by the Civil Society... Read more

Radical Activists Mourn Nelson Ananze, Late Executive Director, CAPP,

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2022In: People in ActionTags: CAPP, CISLAC, CLO, NUJ, Robert Cox, WINNo CommentsViews:

This story will be withdrawn and reposted as soon as Intervention is able to get a good picture of the late Nelson Ananze. Radical activists in Nigeria are mourning their own share of the sp... Read more

Probe Siege On Our Office, CISLAC Writes DG, DSS

Posted By: adminon: December 28, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: CISLAC, DEMOCRACY, Gestapo, GSSNo CommentsViews:

Abuja based NGO, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC) is asking the Director-General of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) to investigate a siege on its premi... Read more

Power of Corruption Versus Power Over Corruption

Posted By: adminon: October 17, 2021In: GovernanceTags: CISLAC, EFCC, GCS, ICC, Premium Times, WFTONo CommentsViews:

Intervention does not investigate corruption but it is excited in the politics of discursive power in the domain of corruption. This is more so in the context of the on-going clash of the po... Read more

See What Bloodletting, Covid-19 and a Grave National Mood Have Done to Auwal Musa Rafsanjani

Posted By: adminon: June 15, 2020In: People in ActionTags: CAPP, CISLAC, NGOs, NPA, RafsanjaniNo CommentsViews:

Right from the beginning, it was planned to be a completely reflective exercise on “the deepening crisis of the Nigerian State” rather than a regular birthday celebration. It could not have... Read more