Nigerians from across the country have widely publicised a peaceful #June12Protest to register their displeasure at the way the country has been governed. By this statement, the Civil Society Consortium on Civic Space wishes to remind the Nigerian Government and its security services that every citizen has a constitutionally guaranteed right to protest. Making this known in a…
Category: democracy
PRESS RELEASE ON SUSPENSION OF TWITTER IN NIGERIA
The Civil Society Consortium on Civic Space received with consternation the news of the decision of the regime of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari to suspend Twitter in Nigeria. Over the years, Twitter has become one of the drivers of freedom of expression, speech and Assembly not just in Nigeria but all over the world. It is…
THE BIRTH OF CIVIL SOCIETY CONSORTIUM ON CIVIC SPACE.
Tap initiative For Citizens Development and Heinrich Boll Stiftung hosted a meeting of civil society actors, religious leaders, traditional rulers, litigation lawyers, gender and sexual reproductive rights activists, scholars, youth groups, people living with disabilities, media organizations, media practitioners and community-based organizations. The organizations came together to form a consortium in response to the continuous…
REPORT: Colloquium on Shrinking Media and Civic Space in Nigeria On 7th November 2019
BACKGROUND Even though the attention of the world was on the role of the media in elections and democracy on this year’s World Press Freedom Day in May, the shadow of last year’s murderous attacks on free speech and journalists still loom large. Will this be the new normal? In July, The Economist, quoting a…
Tweetmeet with EFCC
We had another Tweetmeet with EFCC! On the 23rd of May 2019, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) participated in a Q&A session on our Anti-Corruption, Financial Crimes and Accountability themed TweetMeet. This was an opportunity for the EFCC to shed more light to the Nigerian citizens on the commission’s continuous fight against anti-corruption…
#OpenTheGatesNG
On the 29th of April, we held our #OpenTheGatesNG project aimed at decongesting the Nigerian prisons. In collaboration with the Corps Legal Aid CDS FCT, we carried out an initiative to pay fines for inmates whose offences were misdemeanours but could not afford to pay minor fines and have been in prison for a long…
Coming Soon!
#OpenTheGatesNg is a TapNitiative project aimed at decongesting the Nigerian prisons. In collaboration with Corps Legal Aid CDS FCT, we will be carrying out an initiative to pay fines for inmates whose offences were misdemeanors but cannot afford to pay minor fines and have been prison for a long time. This project is with an…
TweetMeet with Chief Okoi Obla Obono
The Special Presidential Investigative Panel, as established by the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provisions) Act, is chaired by Chief Okoi Obla Obono who is a special adviser to the President. On the 18th of April 2019, Chief Obono was invited to participate in our anti-corruption and transparency tweetmeet. It was an opportunity for citizens…