Author: Constance Meju

As the world battles to combat climate change to save the earth from destruction, African women have raised their voices against contradictory policies from their governments over land use and resource extraction. They expressed dismay over governments, who while legislating to deprive communities of their indigenous land with environmental preservation as excuse, turnaround to handover thousands of acres of land to operators in extractives and agro-business, living the people holed-in and incapacitated. The women who raised their voices at the just ended one-week African Women Climate Assembly held at the Digital Bridge Institute, Lagos, lamented that the contradictory posture of…

Civil Society Stakeholders in Rivers State have rejected the Tinubu administration Students Loan Scheme as announced, saying it offers no real solution to the current crisis in the country’s education system. The stakeholders drawn from executives of non-governmental organisations in the state, lawyers, academia, media and students of tertiary institutions in honour of the third anniversary of a former frontline human rights activist in the Niger Delta, late Comrade Anyakwee Nsirim Ovu at his Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Complex, Rukpokwu Port Harcourt, pointed out flaws in the loan policy. They described the eligibility criteria as restrictive and…