EiE Nigeria Weekly Update Friday, December 21, 2018

I Have Presented the Budget

December 21, 2018 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Friday,  December 21, 2018 EiE Nigeria Weekly Update

 

"You need to be part of the change you want to see!You can no longer be on the sidelines."- Juliet 'Kego (Co-founder, Whole WoMan New Network.)

#2019Budget  

President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2019 budget to the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 19th. The N8.83 trillion is N27 billion lower than the 2018 budget of N9.1 trillion.

Victory for #OfficeOfTheCitizen  

A former lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele was sentenced to two years in prison by Justice Maureen Onyetenu for sexually harassing his student, Monica Osagie.This judgement is a major boost for the campaign against sexual harassment especially in tertiary institutions.Thank you Abiola Akiode - Afolabi for defending Monica which has resulted in a first guilty verdict against the university don.Active citizenship in action! Use your voice!!!

You can follow the conversation on #OfficeOfTheCitizen radio programme.

Never forget, the Office of the Citizen is the highest office in the land! 

Tweet at @EiENigeria using #OfficeOfTheCitizen to be a part of the conversation.

#NoDebateNoMandate  

As part of our #RSVP campaign towards #NigeriaDecides2019, we are planning Debates/Town Hall Meetings for the Presidential, Governorship & Legislative candidates across the country.

Would you like to work with us? Send an email to [email protected].

It was 1,710 days on Wednesday, December 19th since 276 #ChibokGirls were kidnapped. 112 of them remain missing, 5 #DapchiGirls unaccounted for, Leah Sharibu and Red Cross worker, Alice Ngaddah still in captivity.

We will keep demanding till our girls are brought BACK & ALIVE!

#EducationIsNotACrime #BringBackOurGirls

Abuja – Unity Fountain, Daily, 5 – 6pm

Lagos - Noon – 1pm

Ikoyi (Every Saturday) – Falomo Roundabout, Ikoyi.

Ejigbo (2nd & 4th Saturdays) - 64, Adewale Adenuga Street, Orilowo Bus stop via Binta International School.

The #BringBackOurGirls Lagos family on Wednesday, December 19th, organized a children's Christmas party at the Ejigbo area of Lagos. We hope that the missing  girls will once again have a reason to dance and smile again.

We will observe all public holidays (Tuesday, December 25th; Wednesday, December 26th; Tuesday; January 1st) and run skeletal operations until January 7, 2019. Our weekly newsletters will return on Friday, January 12th. Messages will be sent out if there is a call to action.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The EiE Nigeria Team