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Press Release Mr. President: Recall the Declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers State Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) notes with regret President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, thereby suspending the executive and legislative arms of government for six months and appointing a sole administrator. This raises…

By Eze Onyekpere Laws and policies fix times and schedules for the performance of public duties. These times and schedules are not fixed arbitrarily. They are based on reason, common sense and empirical evidence. Essentially, timing is attached to the purpose and objectives of the public duty to ensure that these objectives are achieved in…

Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) with the support of the European Union Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Project RoLAC 2 is implementing a program on “Improving the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Processes and Reforms in Nigeria”. The goal of the project is to contribute to increased effectiveness of anti-corruption laws, policies, interventions and strategies for the…

National Inflation Profile The recently published Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of July 2024 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reveals a slight drop in the headline inflation rate by about 0.8% points from 34.19% in June to 33.40% in July 2024. The 12 months preceding the latest report had seen the…

In times of grave national crisis as we find ourselves in Nigeria, presidential speeches are meant to be uplifting, re-assuring, offer and renew hope in the nation and its leaders and point to real silver linings amidst the hardship and prevalent gloom. Such speeches are opportunities for policy pronouncements, to change course in a course…

Revenue and expenditure provisions of budgets are crafted against the background of projections of underlying assumptions, which ideally should be founded on empirical evidence. These projections are made following a review of the national, regional, and international economic and political environment, the performance of previous forecasts and factors which may shape economic performance in the…