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The Nigeria Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said that there are misrepresentations and inaccuracies in some sections of the media arising from publications based on its recent presentation at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee had invited NEITI to its public hearing held on the Thursday, June 8, 2017 ...

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has alleged that the planned rehabilitation of dilapidated water infrastructure in Lagos State is shrouded in secrecy, even as it urged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to allow transparent and competitive bidding in the selection of companies to carry out the repair works. Gov. Ambode had announced funding to the tune of N760 ...

A new professional training programme on the transparency of climate action and support has been launched. The programme was launched in Bonn, Germany on Thursday, March 9 2017during a meeting between Yong-gun Kim, President of Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Research Centre of Korea (GIR) and Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through a ...

Corruption has been identified as one of the biggest problems that has affected the water sector not to function as expected on the African continent. The vice, which according to Transparency International (TI) is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain, is unfortunately very widespread taking many forms – the small scale corruption in bribing to get connection for ...