Friday 9th  February 2024: Protect Child Domestic Workers: Foundation Pushe

Friday 9th February 2024: Protect Child Domestic Workers: Foundation Pushe

The 5th Estate Newsletter || Friday 9th February 2024

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Reps Reintroduce Controversial NGO Regulation Bill

When it becomes law, the controversial NGO regulations bill will have a legislative framework and regulate the activities of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).


Two People Die During Nigeria vs. South Africa Match

A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a former House of Representatives member died while nervously watching the AFCON 2023 semi-final game between Nigeria and South Africa.


NGO Donates Food Items to 30,000 Osun Residents

AN Osun-based Non-Government Organisation, Oluwaseun Peoples Foundation, has donated food items and other relief materials to 30,000 residents of the 10 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.


Food Security: NGO Partners Kano Farmers to Boost Wheat Production

A non-governmental Organization under the aegis of Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation(TAAT) has entered into a partnership with wheat farmers in Kano, as part of its contribution to assist Nigeria in cutting the cost of wheat importation.


?NGO Calls on Nigeria to Take Stringent Action against FGM

A non governmental Organisation, Impact House Centre for Development Communication has called on Nigeria government to ensure the strict enforcement of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition), Act 2015 in the country.


?Jigawa to Cultivate 150,000 Hectares as NGO, Kano Partner to Boost? Wheat Production

Jigawa state governor, Alhaji Umar Namadi, has concluded plans to cultivate 150,000 hectares of wheat in 2024 dry season farming.


723 Schools Closed on Zamfara, Adamawa, Katsina, 6 Other States Over Insecurity – UNICEF

No?fewer than 723 schools are reported to have been closed down in nine states across the country due to insecurity and occupation of the school premises by state and non-state actors, Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, including incidents of flood leading to obstruction of teaching and learning in the affected schools.


Rights Group Petitions Tinubu, PSC Chairman Over Continuous Human Rights Abuses by Enugu Police Command

A human rights organization, Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has petitioned president Ahmed Bola Tinubu over alleged grave continuous human rights violations by the Enugu State Police Command under the watch of CP, Anayo Uzuegbu.

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Reproductive Education can’t Match Up with Increase in Sexual Activities — NGO

The project manager of Hacey, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Mr Bamidele Oyewumi, has observed that critical reproductive education cannot match up with the increase in sexual activities among the people, warning Nigerians not to treat voluntary test for HIV/AIDS with levity.


Reps Step Down NGOs, CSOs Regulatory Bill

The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to step down the consideration of the bill for an Act to establish a regulatory agency for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).


Inaugurate PPP Committee to Improve Education

THE Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria (PLANE), in collaboration with the Kaduna State Ministry of Education, has inaugurated a Public Private Partnership (PPP) committee to improve education in the state.


World Bank, UNICEF Laud FG School Feeding Programme

The World Bank, United Nations Children’s Fund and the Department of State Services have applauded the school feeding programme of the Federal Government, describing it as a potent way to rescue children from the streets back to the classroom.


Nigeria to Work 10 Times Faster to End FGM by 2030 – UNICEF

With just six years to the 2030 target date to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria, UNICEF has denounced the slow progress being recorded in its eradication.


Adamawa, UNICEF Train 2,260 Adolescents on GBV

The Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, in collaboration with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), trained 2,260 adolescents on what constitutes gender-based violence.


Foundation Gifts Students Laptops, Counsels on Good Hygiene

Three students of Anglican Girls Grammar School, Benin, Edo State were gifted laptops after they emerged winners at a mini-quiz competition organised by the Emmanuel Osemota Foundation, with support from two United States of America-based entities – Conscious Cycles of University of South Florida, Tampa and Dr Lynne Dieckman of Creighton University, Ohama.


Foundation Pushes for Child Domestic Workers’ Protection

Street Project Foundation, in conjunction with the Freedom Fund, funded by the United States Department of State Grant, has held an advocacy forum on how to address exploitative child domestic work in Oworonsoki, Lagos.


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