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Increase Tobacco Control Budget To N300m, CAPPA Urges NASS

As the National Assembly continues its review of the N49.7 trillion 2025 Appropriation Bill presented by President Bola Tinubu on December 18, 2024, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the Senate and House of...

Preserve Intellectual Freedom in Student Loan Policy, CAPPA Urges FG, NELFUND Managers- ………Warns Against Transforming Fund into a Discriminatory Policy.

The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the federal government and Trustees of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to abandon plans to restrict access of the loan to specific courses deemed “high demand” and...

End Mining Tragedies, CAPPA Urged FG

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the federal government and state authorities to enforce strict monitoring and regulatory measures against illegal mining activities to prevent further avoidable tragedies across the country. The group made this...

CAPPA To Launch ‘Africa Make Big Polluters Pay Storytelling Platform’

On October 28, 2024, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and the United States-based Corporate Accountability (CA) will unveil the Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBBP) Storytelling Platform, where African communities at the frontlines of climate change...

CAPPA, African Activists Demand End To Poisoning Of Water Bodies In Ghana

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and nine other rights organisations in seven African countries have demanded that the Ghanaian government immediately halt the ongoing poisoning of water bodies, lands, aquatic/marine life and human health by illegal miners. In...

Coca-Cola’s $1 Billion ‘Audio’ Investment, A Poisoned Chalice, CAPPA Warns

The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rethink his Presidency’s fraternity with corporations who break the nation’s laws and harm public health. The non-governmental organisation’s statement is coming on the heels of...

CAPPA Knocks NPA, Condemns Concession Of Water Services At Tin Can Island Port

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has criticised the Federal Government's decision to privatise the Tin-Can Water Treatment plant by handing it over to Sandust Tincan Water Project Limited (STWP) under a 16-year concession agreement, saying it raises...

CAPPA Applauds Dr. Nnimmo Bassey On Prestigious 2024 Wallenberg Medal Honour

Dr. Nnimmo Bassey Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has congratulated Dr. Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, on his well-deserved recognition as recipient of the prestigious 2024 Wallenberg Medal. The transparency watchdog noted that...

COP10: Nigerian Activists, Others Pressure Big Tobacco Over Health, Environmental Harms

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and other civil society organisations (CSOs) have renewed their demand for delegates to the ongoing World Health Organisation (WHO) biennial tobacco control summit in Panamá City, Panamá to make Big Tobacco companies...
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Gov. Abiodun Felicitates AfDB President, Akinwumi Adesina at 65

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has felicitated the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina,...
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OGSG Pledges Revitalization of Water Sector …as Special Adviser calls...

Damilola Itubanjo,Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on MDG water resources The Ogun State Government has reaffirmed that revitalizing water infrastructure across the state remains...

Court Sentences Man To Two Years Imprisonment For Importing 5.1kg Of Methamphetamine

Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court, Lagos today sentenced one Isaac Onwumere to two years imprisonment for importing 5.01 kilogrammes of...

Court Sentences Professor To 3 Year imprisonment for Announcing Fake Election Results

In a landmark ruling aimed at upholding electoral integrity, the High Court in Akwa Ibom State has sentenced Professor Ignatius Uduk of the University...

Tinubu Raises 2025 Budget From N49.7 Trillion To N54.2 Trillion Amid Additional Revenue Generation

President Bola Tinubu has revised the proposed 2025 budget upwards, increasing it from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, Channels Television reports. The adjustment comes on...