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Ministry of Trade and Investment endorses the 2020 Corporate Sustainable Investor Report

Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has expressed support for the 2020 Corporate Sustainable Investor Report (CSIR), a research document that analyses the sustainability progress of companies in Nigeria. The CSIR is a multi-stakeholder developed report led by CSR-in-Action, a foremost African sustainability consulting and advocacy firm. It takes into primary cognisance, the…

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Lagos Island Connect and Lagos State Government Office of SDG’s train youth volunteers for field work

Lagos Island Connect, a youth-focused capacity-developed initiative by a coalition of non-profits including NNNGO, CSR-in-Action, NNF, Freedom Park and more, and Lagos State Government Office of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & Investment trained young people for field work to carry out a needs assessment of residents of Lagos Island on Friday, 14 May 2021 at…

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Scaling Better: IHS Joins Forces with GRI for the SDGs at the Business Leadership Forum

IHS Towers, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) along with other private sector organisations demonstrated their commitment to driving corporate action by scaling performance on the SDGs in a forum that kicked off Wednesday, 24th March 2021. Recent years have induced major changes to business processes requiring investments in organisational change and technology. Recently, business models…

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Community Convos – Perhaps a Little Pick-Me-Up for the Mining Sector?

Nigeria is indisputably a country blessed with vast deposits of mineral resources strewn across nearly all of her states, from Plateau in the north to Ogun in the west, with this sheer magnanimity of fate seemingly leaving open the door for the perils of negative mining impacts on the environment. Mineral exploration and processing are…

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Preparing Women for Politics in Nigeria

Lagos, Tuesday, 30 March, 2021 – ElectHER, in partnership with AGS Tribe and African Women on Board, organised the Women for Women Conference themed Partnering for Parity which took place at Wheatbaker Hotel, Lagos. ElectHer is a non-partisan progressive women political advancement group co-founded by Ibijoke Faborode and Abosede George-Ogan. Statistics have shown that there…

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International Breweries Plc Publishes Maiden Sustainability Report

International Breweries Plc (IB Plc.) a proud part of the world’s largest brewer, AB InBev, today released its first

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Community Convos: What’s Going on with the PIB and Community Engagement (Part II)

Last week, I started looking into the easily remedied gaps and vague provisions in the

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Community Convos: What’s Going on with the PIB and Community Engagement?

The much talked about Petroleum Industry Bill, popularly called the PIB, is according to experts a comprehensive proposal to overhaul of the state’s approach to managing the oil and gas industry's operations. Designed to address all aspects of the sector, including institutions, fiscal policy, and community management, among others, the Oil and Gas Reform Implementation…

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Mourning the Loss of Innocent Chukwuma

It is with great regret that CSR-in-Action mourns the passing of Comrade Innocent Chukwuma, a man of integrity, passion and humility. For nine years, CSR-in-Action has organised the Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI) Conference and Initiative, and for five of those years, Mr Chukwuma, as head honcho at Ford Foundation West Africa, has been…

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Flour Mills of Nigeria Expands its Commitment to enriching lives with the release of its 2019/2020 Sustainability Report

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc (“Flour Mills” or “FMN”), Nigeria’s leading integrated food business and agro-allied Group (the “Group”), and owners of the iconic brand, ‘Golden Penny,’ today released its 2019/2020 sustainability report at the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The report which is titled, ‘Feeding the Nation and Enriching lives through Sustainable Operations,’ details our progress…

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Rethinking Manufacturing Sustainably

Globally, a growing number of manufacturing companies across different industries are paying more attention to sustainability as a significant tool in driving their strategy and operations to increase growth and global competitiveness. This has become an encouraging trend that has evolved from the niche of those who traditionally positioned themselves as "green," and now includes…

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Community Convos: On Nigerian Refineries

After taking over the 35,000-barrel per day Shell-BP Refinery established in Port Harcourt in 1965, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was founded on 1 April 1977, as the country's own oil company. The corporation was granted powers and operational interests in refining, petrochemicals, commodity transportation, and marketing, in addition to its exploration activities, and…

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Ministry of Trade and Investment endorses the 2020 Corporate Sustainable Investor Report

Lagos Island Connect and Lagos State Government Office of SDG’s train youth volunteers for field work

Scaling Better: IHS Joins Forces with GRI for the SDGs at the Business Leadership Forum

Community Convos – Perhaps a Little Pick-Me-Up for the Mining Sector?