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NGO Statement on Darfur

Press release signed by 17 NGOs including NAS International on the situation in Darfur.

DARFUR – The Shadow of Our Conscience

Followers of socio-political developments all over the world will be familiar with the unsavoury circumstances that have subsisted in the horn of Africa, the Western Sudanese region of Darfur. On 10 April, 2006, concerned individuals and international humanitarian organisations will gather outside Sudanese Embassies all over the world

LEAVE US ALONE!!!

On 23 January 2006, “This Day” the national newspaper carried a report attributed to the Federal Minister of Information, Mr Frank Nweke Junior in which he alleged that the “Pirate Confraternity”, obviously intended as the PYRATES Confraternity is the “root of all cultism in Nigeria, the bane of the education system ….”.

“HEAR OUR VOICES” - A PETITION FOR A PUBLIC INQUIRY

BUDGET 2006: Observations on Spending Options

On 5 December 2005, President Olusegun Obasanjo addressed a joint session of the National Assembly in which he presented the 2006 Appropriation Bill. This project contained a number of remarkable if not unique features, some of which we shall be commenting upon.

HEAR OUR VOICES - A Nation's Reaction to Tragedy

On 22 October 2005, the nation experienced one of its darkest days in contemporary Nigeria. 117 passengers on board a Bellview Airlines 210 on its way to Abuja crashed. The effects of this accident shook the nation. Its consequence was one of anguish, frustration and deep-seated despair.

AGAINST THE ROPES - A Nation's Response to Adversity

By quirk of unusual coincidence, the Nigerian Nation was thrown into mourning with the loss, on Saturday, 22 October 2005 of 117 persons who died when Belleview Airlines Flight 210 en route Abuja from Lagos, crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria. Literally within hours, the nation lost its First Lady, Mrs Stella Obasanjo.

HIGHER AND HIGHER - The Trauma of Fuel Prices & Hikes

Yet again, the Nigerian nation has been roused into protest mode. The reason for this is the recently publicised increase in the pump price of petroleum products. Petrol and diesel previously sold for approximately N51 per litre. The price increase adds at least 20% to that price.

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NGO Statement on Darfur

DARFUR – The Shadow of Our Conscience

LEAVE US ALONE!!!

“HEAR OUR VOICES” - A PETITION FOR A PUBLIC INQUIRY

BUDGET 2006: Observations on Spending Options

HEAR OUR VOICES - A Nation's Reaction to Tragedy

AGAINST THE ROPES - A Nation's Response to Adversity

HIGHER AND HIGHER - The Trauma of Fuel Prices & Hikes

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