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National Conference of Informal Workers Organisation in Nigeria
(16-17 June, 2010)
Approximately 80% of the working population in Nigeria is employed in the informal sector, but informal sector workers continue to suffer from comprehensive absence of social protection, access to friendly business environment, lack of representation and participation in political decision making processes. Read more
Oil and Gas Conference Abuja: "Fuelling the World - Failing the Region"? (24-25 May, 2010)
(from L: José Mba Abeso, Deputy Executive Secretary General, Gulf of Guinea Commission; Rolf Hempelmann, Member of German Bundestag, Charles Ukeje, University of Ile Ife, Abdoulaye Ly, Transparency International, Senegal”)
With new oil and gas finds in the region and increasing international competition about the world’s energy reserves, the perils of resource extraction are once more coming to the fore. The FES therefore held a high-ranking two-day conference in Abuja from May 25-26, entitled “Fuelling the World – Failing the Region? New Challenges of Global Energy Security, Resource Governance and Development in the Gulf of Guinea”. Participants were drawn from regional institutions, governments, parliaments, civil society, military, academia, and the media Read more
Increasing Citizens’ participation in the Katsina Local Government Areas
On the 23rd of March 2010, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Community Information Project (CIP), organized a community dialogue in Yar Tsamiya Gino, Kankara LGA, Katsina State Read more


