Resolutions to the causes of conflict and security breaches in the extractive sector and the effects on our collective and individual lives, were the talking points at the 7th Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI) Conference held at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja on the Monday, 21st and Tuesday, 22nd of May 2018. While…
read moreTo give clear perspective to this piece, it is fit that one start by tracing the etymology of the word “philanthropy”. The English word philanthropy is derived from the Greek word philantropos which translates literally to “man-loving” (kindly note that man as used here is generic to mean female and male). What this implies is…
read moreAccess Bank and twenty-five other leading global banks from 5 continents, are re-defining banks’ purpose and business model to align the sector with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. Both the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change have set ambitious targets to deliver a…
read moreIn conjunction with the Oxford-Morland-West Africa Graduate Scholarship West Africa includes: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, the island of Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, São Tomé and Principe and Togo. There is one Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa each year. The Scholarship for West Africa…
read moreVolunteering simply means to offer one’s services without getting paid for it. It is generally considered as an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain to benefit another person, group or organisation. The intent is to promote goodness and the quality of life. In Nigeria, many sustainability focused organisations…
read moreWhy is militancy still a huge challenge in the Niger Delta considering the fact that the funds for the Niger Delta Amnesty programme initiated by the Late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua has been largely sustained and increased. Claims of environmental degradation, human rights violation, corruption and underdevelopment are widely believed to be the genesis of…
read moreThe Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) and Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) have embarked on mobilising notable private sector leaders and organisations as partners in the execution of an improved public service delivery. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita in a statement obtained by…
read moreThe Nigeria program of the Natural Resource Governance Institute is accepting applications for its 2018 Media for Oil Reform (MFOR) Fellowship. The MFOR Fellowship is uniquely designed to support senior or mid-career journalists to deepen their mastery of oil and gas reporting through a tailored professional capacity development program over a period of one year.…
read moreNot many Nigerians have had the uncommon privilege of being featured in Time Magazine. Even if they have, not many have been described like the early post-independence Nigerian industrialists were described in the September 17, 1965 issue; “sophisticated in trade and finance”. The writer of this particular piece did not mince words when he wrote…
read moreIn the last decade, activities in the sustainability and sustainable development space have increased by the day. Corporates have employed more sustainability professionals, built robust corporate social responsibility and sustainability teams, and are still doing so. Also, there is so much noise about urbanisation and sustainable development within the public sector. So many slum communities…
read moreThe Federal Government has restated its commitment to checkmate the activities of illegal miners in the country. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, stated this at a stakeholders meeting on Wednesday in Uyo. He explained that the Federal Government had put in place measures to checkmate the illegal activities of miners…
read moreAt Christian Aid we have a vision of a better world, free from poverty and inequality. To achieve this and bring about deep and lasting change, we are increasing our investment in programme quality and learning. This role represents part of that commitment. About the role Sitting within the recently created PIF (Programme Innovation and Funding) group the…
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