This report sums up the proceedings at the one-day public forum on Citizenship, Civic Spaces and Civil Society in Nigeria, held on February 28, 2017, in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. The public forum forms part of a broader strategy for gathering information from a  wide spectrum of non-profit stakeholders in order to gauge […]

Nigeria: Report on Closing Spaces for Civil Society & Democratic Engagement  

Commitment towards innovation, the ability to collaborate, build alliances and networks, and make impact in a sustained manner, have been listed as some of the strategic “warfare” startups and young non-profits must have, in order to meet changing conditions in the 21st Century non-governmental sector.  NGO stakeholders reached this consensus as a panel session on Civil Society Organizations: Synergies, […]

Spaces for Change’s executive director, Victoria Ohaeri, shared the findings of the organization’s research on closing spaces for civil society in Nigeria at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Private Sector Consultative Forum held at the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes in Vienna, Austria. Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) including the civil society have witnessed […]

On October 26, 2016, Dr John Dan Fulani, public commentator and lecturer at the Kaduna State University, was arrested and detained for 13 days. His offense: he made a Facebook post criticizing the government of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State. A reporter with a local newspaper, for publishing a story claiming the governor had […]

How did Spaces for Change transform from a Facebook jaw-jaw group into an international research and advocacy organization working to strengthen the participation of excluded groups – women, youth and communities – in social and economic governance in Nigeria? How is the organization using the social media to deepen democratic debate, public engagement and accountability […]