The Nigerian Senate recently reintroduced a bill to establish a national agency to regulate ‘hate speech’ uttered through different mediums in the country. The bill tagged ‘National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches (Estb., etc) Bill 2019’ is sponsored by the Deputy Senate Whip Sabi Abdullahi. [download id=”4323″]
On June 20, 2019, Spaces for Change | S4C and the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (SCUML) co-hosted a workshop dubbed Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Risks in the Non-Profit Sector, with support from Open Society Foundations and Fund for Global Human Rights. The workshop participants comprised a diverse mix of 62 participants […]
On June 20, 2019, Spaces for Change (S4C) and the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (SCUML) co-hosted a workshop, Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Risks in the Non-Profit Sector, which had in attendance, 62 representatives of religious groups, donor bodies, local and international non-governmental organizations operating in Nigeria’s six geo-political zones in […]
Nigeria: FATF on-site visit consultation with NPOs
On June 20, 2019, Spaces for Change (S4C) and the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (SCUML) co-hosted a workshop, Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Risks in the Non-Profit Sector, which had in attendance, 62 representatives of religious groups, donor bodies, local and international non-governmental organizations operating in Nigeria’s six geo-political zones in […]
Are non-governmental organizations in Nigeria poorly regulated? Are non-profit entities used as conduits for money laundering and terrorism financing? This Open Society Foundation-supported research study extensively analyses the results of the 2016 National Risk Assessment on money laundering and terrorist financing risks in Nigeria (Nigeria NRA). It interrogates the applicability of the legal regimes governing anti-money laundering (AML) […]