TERMS OF REFERENCE OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE OF ENGAGEMENT To provide technical and administrative support in the implementation of project activities. SCOPE OF WORK AND KEY TASK (i) Support on Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) Projects Work with the Project Leads to update work plan and budget, to schedule and implement project activities. Provide technical assistance in the implementation […]
There are still mysteries beclouding the fuel subsidy management, as evident in the House of Representatives work so far, which the EFCC must try to unravel.(View full Text) Featured picture source: http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/27361/2012/06/15/620000_bribery_scandal_police_detain_farouk_lawan_overnight.html
Despite mounting calls from groups and individuals for her resignation in order to pave way for proper investigation of the alleged fraud in the oil industry, the minister of petroleum resources made it clear that she would not resign saying that “this is democracy and Nigerians have the opportunity to speak their mind for and […]
As a result of the eight day strike and protests, Nigeria lost about N207, 408.28 billion according toThe National Bureau of Statistics when it also announced that the country’s inflation rate has come down from 10.5 to 10.3 percent. Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Sanusi Lamido Sanusi had put the economic loss to […]
Still at the House public hearing, the Chairman of the board of NEITI Prof Assisi Asobie said that the payments made by the NNPC lack transparency and due process. (view full text ) View NEITI 2006 – 2008 report on the NNPC
Revelations were made by the PPPRA’s executive Secretary Reginald Stanley that the federal government paid N649 billion subsidy on excess imported petrol in 2011. This revelation was made on the third day of public hearing on subsidy regime.(View full text) Picture source: http://www.otlafrica.com/content/pppra-grants-nimex-petroleum-temporary-reprieve
Civil Society Organizations and other groups called on the minister of petroleum and the GMD of NNPC to step aside to transparency in the move to probe payments on subsidy to fuel suppliers.(View full text) Picture Source: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/04/25/fuel-subsidy-scam-civil-society-groups-want-petroleum-minister-sacked/
PPPRA adjusted its petroleum price template capturing the N97 per litre announced by the president. The agency pledged to put every machinery in place to ensure that products supplied are fully accounted for and appropriate subsidy worked out for such deliveries. (View full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152592:pppra-adjusts-template-subsidy-rises-to-n491litre&catid=1:news&Itemid=2
As a result of the deployment of soldiers to major streets in Lagos in the wake of the subsidy protest, Lagos state governor Babatunde Fashola urged the president to withdraw soldiers deployed to Lagos saying it is undemocratic to set military troops after civilians who have not broken any law. (View full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152483:fashola-urges-jonathan-to-withdraw-soldiers-from-lagos&catid=1:news&Itemid=2
Kano state chapter of the NLC defied the directive by days after NLC national leadership suspended the national strike over fuel subsidy removal by the government, saying they will never return to work until the fuel price is reversed to the old rate of N65/ litre. (View full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152498:kano-defies-nlcs-order-to-suspend-strike&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
Following the president’s announcement of reduction in the price of petrol to N97/litre, the NLC and its allies formally announced the suspension of strikes, mass rallies and protests across the country, however, the protests still continued in some states. (View full text). http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152501:why-labour-ended-strike-protests-persist-in-kano-others&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
President Jonathan early morning January 17 announced a slash in petrol price to N97 per litre down from about N144 that it climed after the January 1 removal of fuel subsidies.Despite the president’s announcement, labour insists that strike would continue but the street protests had been called off owing to security concerns. (View full text). http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152417:petrol-now-n97litre&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
Labour and its ally unions declared Saturday and Sunday 14th and 15th January strike-free as indications emerge that negotiations would resume with the government on the area of disagreements that resulted in the mass action after previous meetings ended in a deadlock. (View full Text) http://weeklytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8214:strike-labour-to-resume-talks-with-fg-today&
Reacting to the news of the death of a protester, the IG Hafiz Ringim, said that the people that were killed by riot police during the protest were not protesters but miscreants who tried to hijack the protect to maim, loot and burn property (view full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151772:protester-killed-in-kano-nba-impeach-jonathan-if&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
A protester killed and 300 injured as police storm protest venue in Kano. (View full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151772:protester-killed-in-kano-nba-impeach-jonathan-if&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
Despite the raging protests and an imminent strike declared by labour, the Federal Executive Council rose from an emergency meeting saying there would be no going back on fuel subsidy removal. (View full text)
NLC and TUC called for an indefinite national strike and mass demonstrations starting on Monday January 9, to protest the scrapping of fuel subsidy which more than doubled petrol prices. (View full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151669:labour-unions-call-national-strike-monday&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
Labour says it will go to court to seek legal opinion on the constitutional propriety of the Christopher Kolade Committee on Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE).(View full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151575:labour-heads-to-court-over-kolade-cttee-&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
Two killed in Illorin as protesters take to the streets across major cities (Abuja,Kaduna, Makurdi, Lagos, Lokoja) around the country. Thousands of aggrieved Nigerians marched into the streets of Lagos protesting the removal of fuel subsidy as business activities collapses and facilities are vandalized. (View full text) http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151571:subsidy-protests-turn-violent&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
The NBA through its president condemned the decision to withdraw fuel subsidy, saying that the lawyers in the country are not in support of the removal. (View full story)
Reacting on the removal of subsidy, the House Deputy Minority leader Sulaiman Abdulrahman Sumaila said the house would do everything legally possible to stop the removal of fuel subsidy. (View full text)
For 51 years, the key issue responsible for Nigeria’s difficulties has been the absence of good leadership: leadership that would act in the public interest. The political elite has maintained a stiff resistance to change in a corruption-ridden and violence-prone society. view full text
Does Jonathan have a draft roadmap to pilot Nigeria through the next four years? Nigerians during the recent presidential elections invested Mr. President with ‘great’ powers, and if truly driven by people power, it implies consent and confers legitimacy.The President of the Federal Republic is also the Head of State, Chief Executive of the Federation and Commander-in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation […]
(image courtesy of Guardian.co.uk) This book is a collection of excellent academic materials by experienced and renowned scholars who have critically analyzed the devastating age-long oil violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Beyond examining the origin and nature of the conflict, it also emphasizes the way forward for the Niger Delta, based on the […]
Shell EVP for Shell Companies in Africa met with the Ambassador on October 13 to discuss the status of the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill. She said the GON wanted the National Assembly to pass the bill by November 17 and that the international oil companies would have to move quickly if the House passed the […]
Since the 1960s till date, the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry have continued to play a key role in the country’s economic growth and development. The sector generates about 95 percent of total export revenue and 80 percent of her total national income. In addition, it expends about $8 billion annually in servicing its operations. Sadly, a significant […]
At a round table discussion in Lagos on February 18, Nigerian Environmental NGOs and visiting Science Fellow and Environmental Protection Agency Federal On-Scene Coordinator, Michael Solecki, identified weaknesses in the Nigerian oil spill response mechanisms and discussed ways NGOs could improve Nigerian spill clean-up capability.view full text image of Exxon platform
Minister for Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Halima Alao reported on October 28 that Nigeria recorded 418 oil spill cases in the first six months of 2008. The spills are believed to be the results of aging oil facilities, illegal bunkering, and human error. All incidents were reported to the National Oil Spill Detection and […]
Based on their operating locations, Chevron and ExxonMobil (EM) face distinct challenges in operating in the Niger Delta. Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Todd Moss, the Ambassador, and Econoff (note taker) visited Chevron’s Escravos oil and gas complex in Delta State and EM’s East Area Project 20 miles offshore of Akwa Ibom State on January 28. […]
Legborsi Pyagbara, International Advocacy Officer for the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), said MOSOP members are unsure of “what’s happening” with cleanup efforts relating to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). It appears UNEP has ignored a July agreement which outlined cooperation and dialogue between UNEP and MOSOP, he speculated; UNEP […]
WARRI, Nigeria — The list of people with big influence over the $2 trillion-a-year global oil market has long been an exclusive one, topped by Saudi princes and American presidents. This year, someone calling himself Jomo Gbomo emailed his way into the club. Since January, the obscure Nigerian rebel group that he claims to speak for has battled […]
On August 24, the Senate passed a resolution ordering Royal Dutch Shell to pay 1.5 billion US dollars to Ijaw residents of Bayelsa State, in response to a petition from a group claiming to represent them. The petitioners claimed environmental damage from oil spills and other oil operations had killed, injured and ruined the Ijaws […]
ExxonMobil has exercised only one of its preferential bids for crude oil exploration and development in the Nigeria – Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone (JDZ). ExxonMobil matched ChevronTexaco’s bid on Block 1, leaving the Joint Development Authority to determine the final number of stakeholders for what is considered the JDZ’s most valuable block […]
The residents of Tia, a small farming and fishing community, were devastated recently when an oil pipeline jointly owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Ltd. (Shell) exploded burning acres of fertile land and polluting nearby creeks.view full text featured image culled from blog.amnestyusa.org
featured image courtesy of article.wn.com During an early August visit to Port Harcourt, CRO met with the Center for Social and Corporate Responsibility (CSCR), a Port Harcourt-based NGO operating on a grant from Catholic Relief Services, to discuss CSCR’s investigation into the major October 2002 oil spill at a Shell trunk line into Battan creek of […]
With no discernible progress in the three month-old Warri crisis, ChevronTexaco (CTX) appears to be talking to the armed Ijaw militants who killed scores of people when they attacked and razed over 40 Itsekiri villages and several oil installations. According to sources, CTX appears to be seeking a modus vivendi with the militants.view full text […]
Transocean Sedco Forex officials confirm that striking oil workers still hold 273 hostages–including 17 U.S. citizens and 79 other expatriates–on four rigs off Port Harcourt. The company’s Managing Director Ian Clark says the platforms have been re-supplied with sufficient quantities of food and water, but admits there have been threats of physical violence directed at […]
In the dense mangrove swamps of Delta State, a group of perhaps 300 militant and well-armed Ijaw youths last month was able to shut down over 40 percent of Nigeria’s oil production, costing over USD one billion to date.view full text featured image courtesy of pointblanknews.com
Minister of State for the Environment Imeh Okopido has enlisted the World Bank, the Government of Norway and environmentalists from around the world to support his position over the issue of gas flaring in Nigeria. Okopido,s personal crusade is to advance the deadline to end gas flaring from 2008 to 2004.view full text featured image […]
Les 19 et 20 janvier derniers, l’Autorité maritime du Ghana a accueilli la conférence régionale d’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre du Maritime Anti-Corruption Network « Réseau Maritime de Lutte contre la Corruption » (MACN) afin de promouvoir le dialogue entre les secteurs public et privé et entre les industries sur la lutte contre la corruption dans les ports maritimes. La conférence, intitulée « Conférence régionale des parties prenantes du secteur maritime du MACN sur les meilleures pratiques mondiales en matière de dédouanement des navires », était la toute première conférence en son genre.
On January 19th – 20th, 2023, the Ghana Maritime Authority hosted the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) West-Central Africa Regional Conference to promote public- private sector and inter-industry dialogue on tackling corruption in seaports.
We are honoured to present the “Outstanding Achievement in Collective Action Award” of the Switzerland-based Basel Institute on Governance to Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday, 14th November 2022. The award recognizes the creation of a real-time Help Desk by CBi and the MACN to address concerns […]
On October 19, 2022, Heads of Port Agencies convened at the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Commission (ICPC) Headquarters, Abuja, for a Tone at the Top Conference. The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the necessity of a Compliance Function within each agency to sustain the positive changes achieved through recent port reform. Opening the […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA, OCTOBER 26, 2022 – The Integrity Organisation/Convention on Business Integrity (“CBi”) and the United Nations Global Compact Network Nigeria (“UNGC Network Nigeria”), in partnership with the Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”), are pleased to announce the launch of a Small Medium Enterprise (“SME”) Anti-Corruption and Corporate Governance Standards Project (“SME Future-Forward Project”), funded by […]
TERMS OF REFERENCE OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE OF ENGAGEMENT To manage risks associated with the financial management of projects and the organizations. To review financial activities, provide financial guidance and support the organization to enable her make sound business decisions. To advice on financial related risk. To conduct trainings for non-financial staff. JOB DIMENSION Supervising the finance team, managing budgets and […]
TERMS OF REFERENCE Job Role: Monitoring and EvaluationJob Category: TechnicalJob Role: Consultancy Duty Station: F.C.T – AbujaEffective Start Date: As soon as possible ProjectDeadline: May 2022 As part of project activities, a mid-point study was conducted and designed toidentify the personas of professionals that were most vulnerable to corruption.Specifically, the research achieved the following: Identify […]
TERMS OF REFERENCE OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE OF ENGAGEMENT Creating user-centered designs by understanding business requirements, and user feedback. Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes and mockups. Translating requirements into style guides, design systems, design patterns, and attractive user interfaces. SCOPE OF WORK AND KEY TASK Create user-centered by understanding business requirements and user feedback Creating user flows, wireframes, […]
This is to officially inform you of the resumption of the Integrity@ 25 Essay Competition. We sincerely apologise for the delay in implementing the second stage of the essay competition. Please take note of the following instructions and timelines: Topics for the Second stage of the Essay Competition are: Secondary school category topic: Corruption Is […]