The impact of COVID-19 worldwide show that the pandemic will affect people differently as well as magnify existing inequalities along lines of age, class, disability, gender and income. For measures to be effective, the COVID-19 response must integrate understanding of gender norms, roles, and relations from the start. In this brief, Chitra Nagarajan tells how […]

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Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication (CCEPE)  is monitoring the distribution of relief materials to the poorest of the poor in Kwara  State. CCEPE along with other civil society organizations (CSOs) were invited to join the Kwara State COVID-19 Palliative Distribution Sub-committee in the bid to involve CSOs in the distribution of food items to the poor in various local […]

PRESS STATEMENT: April 17, 2020  A coalition of public interest organizations, under the auspices of the Action Group on Free Civic Space, have launched Legal Helplines to offer free legal services to persons whose rights are violated as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown measures in Nigeria. The organizations, comprising Spaces for Change (S4C), CLEEN […]

The Action Group on Free Civic Space in Nigeria works to co-create a unified sector position and voice to defend civic space against security-induced restrictions. Read the summary and find the full case study at the bottom of the page.     Spaces for Change: From informal networks and collaboration to the Action Group for […]

The affected hotels were Prudent Hotel, Alode, and Etemeteh Hotel, Onne in Eleme Local Government Area of the state. The demolition, according to the governor, was in line with the Government’s Executive Order 6, which banned the operation of hotels across the 23 local government areas of the state.  Wike, who monitored the operation, told […]