Why NNPC/First E&P JV empowered NGOs with N53.4m - ITREALMS

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In fulfillment of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) and First Exploration & Production Limited (First E&P) joint venture (JV) has donated the sum of N53million to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Nigeria.

Under the JV’s Impact First Initiative, the donation, targeted towards enhancing societal welfare, would address areas such as good healthcare and well-being, quality education as well as economic growth within the nation.

Exposed! Al-Mustapha accuses NGOs, western countries of exploiting Nigeria's californium - ITREALMS

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The Action Alliance (AA) Presidential candidate in the forthcoming general elections, retired Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has accused some international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) of conniving with some state actors to exploit the californium precious stones in Nigeria, reports ITREALMS.

Californium is reportedly worth $27 million, one thousand, per gram, about N12,040,920,000.00 billion.

Stop harassing SERAP, NGOs, FG told - ITREALMS

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Group of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria have asked the Federal Government under the President, General Muhammadu Buhari, retired, to stop harassing them especially the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over their assertiveness in exercising constitutional rights, arising from last year ban on Twitter, reports ITREALMS. 

The coalition in a press statement available to
ITREALMS and endorsed by the Executive Director, Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, ‘Yemi Adamolekun; Executive Director, Media Rights Agenda (MRA), Edetaen Ojo; Deputy Director, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Kolawole Oluwadare; and Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative (PIN), 'Gbenga Sesan, lamented the incessant harassments by the government and its agents on non-governmental organisations in the country and rejected the allegation of destablising Nigeria.

Paradigm takes NGOs on Google Impact Challenge @ 7 cities - ITREALMS Online

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Seven cities across the federation would play host to series of workshops dedicated to nonprofit and social enterprises interested in applying for the 2018 Google Impact Challenge Nigeria, courtesy of Paradigm Initiative partnership with Google, reports ITRealms.

The workshop, ITRealms gathered is being organized by Paradigm Initiative on behalf of Google in Aba, Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Jos, Port Harcourt and Yola between June 25 and 27, 2018.

Director of Programmes, Paradigm Initiative, Tope Ogundipe, confirmed this to ITRealms, saying that the Google Impact Challenge is an important project design to empower Nigerian nonprofits and social enterprises with important resources to help deepen their work.

“The application workshops will help prospective applicants understand what the challenge is all about, its rules and the intricacies of putting forward a strong application,” she declared.

Ogundipe also said that Google is looking for 12 most innovative nonprofits and social enterprises in Nigeria and Paradigm Initiative wants to ensure that everyone doing great work in their communities stand a chance to making the cut.

“This is why we are organizing the workshop in all the 6 geopolitical zones and the federal capital territory. Great ideas are everywhere and we hope all the worthy ideas are able to compete on an equal footing. Those interested in the workshop can go to our website paradigmhq.org to register,” she said.

Ogundipe further said that the Google Impact Challenge Nigeria is an open invitation to nonprofits, social enterprises and businesses in Nigeria to share their vision for innovative ways to make our community stronger and create social impact, with a specific focus on increasing economic opportunity.

ITRealms equally gathered that judges for the 6-month challenge would include MI Abaga, John Momoh, Parminder Vir OBE, Kanu Nwankwo and Mo Abudu.

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Nigerians rank media, NGOs high on trust

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The Nigerian media and non-governmental organisations have topped scale of trustworthy entities with 78 per cent and 81 per cent respectively, reports ITRealms.

Affirming this, the Managing Director cum Chief Strategist, Chain Reactions Nigeria, Israel Jaiye Opayemi, in a welcome speech at the unveil in Lagos, said the inclusion of Nigeria in the annual survey for the first in the 18-year-old history of Edelman Trust Barometer was in fulfillment of the company’s promise last year to ensure Nigeria was in focus among the comity of nations of reckon annually sampled by Edelman.  

“Trust sits at the heart of social capital. For those who were here last year, we made a promise that Nigeria would be included in the 2018 deck of the Edelman Trust Barometer. I am happy to announce that we are here today to fulfill that promise,” he declared.

Opeyemi pointed out that the report showed the media and non-governmental organisations in Nigeria as trustworthy with 78 per cent of Nigerians saying they still trust the media despite the rise of fake news, while 81 per cent affirmed their trust in NGOs. 

“The trust score for business is 62 per cent, while government has 60 per cent,” he said.

Stressing that on these indices said, trust in NGOs was indicative of the fact that people acknowledge social interventions and humanitarian services rendered by non-governmental organisations in Nigeria, especially during some of the major disasters the country has witnessed which left thousands homeless.

He however cautioned that businesses and governments are already sitting in what he called ‘the cusp of the neutral zone’ and so must urgently improve on their trust asset so they do not slide into what he described as ‘negative zone.’

He noted that from the survey, Nigerians place a high premium on trust, which emphasized the importance for the business leaders to ensure that the company is trusted by communicating regularly with clients and customers, and their products and services are of high quality. They must also communicate regularly with employees and the CEOs must champion the effort.”

The Special Guest of Honour and Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Idiat Adebule, in her remarks commended Chain Reactions Nigeria for doing the country proud by ensuring the inclusion of Nigeria on the list of the countries surveyed by Edelman, and expressed confidence that the insights from the report would go a long way in better understanding how trust can be leveraged as an asset to improve relations between the government and the governed as well as service delivery from the government to the people.

Represented by the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Ronke Shoyobo, the deputy governor said: “No doubt, this year’s report and the debate of its implications by eminent representatives of the Nigerian government, the business community, the media and non-governmental organisations here today will strengthen the fabric of healthy relations and communications in our nation, particularly government intervention policies and programmes.”

The President, Public Relations Consultants’ Association of Nigeria, John Ehiguese, and President, Africa Public Relations Association, Yomi Badejo-Okusanya, in their goodwill messages affirmed that trust is everything in today’s world and organisations must do everything possible to build trust and credibility and maintain same in order to remain attractive to their stakeholders.

Moderated by Data Analyst, Channels Television, Babajide Ogunsanwo, members of the panel included Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan; Shoyobo; respected Financial and Investment Analyst and CEO of Financial Derivatives, Bismarck Rewane; Lead Consultant/CEO of Thistle Praxis, Ini Abimbola; and Executive Head of Marketing and Communications, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Nkiru Olumide-Ojo.

Others were seasoned journalist and Editor of BusinessDay newspaper, Anthony Osae-Brown; President, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, Dotun Oladipo; Executive Chairman, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, Comrade Debo Adeniran; and Public Affairs commentator, Comrade Nelson Ekujumi.

Dignitaries at the presentation ceremony cut across the four mainstream institutions of the Nigerian society such as government, business, media and non-governmental organisations as well as the Nigerian marketing communications sector.

They included Lagos State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Wale Oluwo, represented by a Director in the Ministry, Adebayo Ajisebutu; Vice President, Centre for Value and Leadership, Adegbenro Rasheed; Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Lagos State Chapter, Olusegun McMedal; Chairman/CEO, C&F Porter Novelli and past president of PRCAN, Nn’emeka Maduegbuna; CEO, Blueflower Communications, Chido Nwakanma; CEO, SY &T Communications, Simon Tumba; CEO, TruContact, Dr. Ken Egbas; Chief Operating Officer, Soulcomms Publicis, Moji Saka; Chief Operating Officer, BlackHouse Media, Moruff Adenekan; and Lead Consultant, StepCraft, Eniola Mayowa.

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