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CLIMATE CHANGE: Threat or Opportunity?

Exploring the challenges facing the Nigeria energy mix, resource optimization, and environmental crisis Significant recent events impacting the ecosystem, environment, climate, and energy are all associated with climate change. The effects of climate change on various societal sectors are interconnected. Food production and human health can be harmed by drought. Flooding has the potential to […]

ENERGY TRANSITION; The Nigerian Realities

The reality that the planet is going through some changes that are attributable to climate change is nothing new. Climate change has recently affected many parts of the world, with carbon dioxide accounting for 76% of all greenhouse gas emissions[1]. The ambition of the Energy Transition is to implement a long-term, sustainable global action-based strategy to […]

Leveraging Public Accounts Committees to Improve Accountability at Subnational Level in Nigeria

There has been an increased public demand for transparency and accountability at the subnational level in Nigeria because of dwindling revenues occasioned by falling oil prices and outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in the early 2020. There has necessitated the need for Public Accounts Committees (PACs) at the subnational level to be responsive to this public […]

Moving from Transparency to Accountability at Subnational Level in Nigeria

Transparency and accountability are twin concepts that are essential pillars of democratic governance in modern societies. Transparency is often and subtly intertwined with accountability, in governance but it is a tool for holding public officials accountable and fighting corruption as such, transparency is a “means” and not an “end” in itself. When a government’s meetings […]

Governance Issues in Nigeria: Are Citizens Helpless?

Like many countries in the world, Nigeria is a democratic state and democracy provides citizens with civic powers, rights, and corresponding obligations to influence government policies, activities and decisions. Governance issues in Nigeria have not been fair to a common man as citizens in different parts of the country grapple with enormous challenges facing the […]

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