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African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development
African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development
Child Labour is a common phenomenon around the globe, with developing countries being more heavily impacted. Millions of children under the age of 15 are reportedly engaged in the workforce, while some families depend on income generated by such children who consequently lack proper education and schooling. Working children are the objects of extreme exploitation in terms of toiling for long hours for minimal or no pay. Their work conditions are especially severe, often not provided the stimulation for proper physical and mental development, while many of them endure lives of pure deprivation, child labour is a man menace that has remained. One of the great dilemmas of our time.
The report highlights the imperatives of institutionalising robust natural resources governance (NRG) frameworks in the ECOWAS region to ensure sustainably exploitation and management of the region’s rich natural resource endowments for the benefit of the people. The ECOWAS region suffers from the ‘resource curse’ as its rich minerals endowments have not translated into improved standard of living of the people as evidenced by the incidence of poverty in the region. The extractive sectors has generally tended to develop in enclaves without multiplier effect on the economies of the member states of ECOWAS
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has become a global phenomenon and Nigeria is not an exception, especially with the advent of COVID-19 pandemic.This study found evidence of verbal and sexual harassment, sexual violence, physical violence and socio-economic violence within the mining sector, with violence sometimes operationalised to concentrate control of resources and higher valued roles with men.
This Study investigated mining community development agreement (CDA) practice in Nigerian within the context of the extant provisions i the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act 2007 and the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Regulations 2007. it was undertaken against the backdrop of how CDAs are construed as a tool for transferring social and economic benefits of resources extraction to communities as well as a magic wand for resolving perennial conflict relations between extractive resources companies and their host communities around the globe.
The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization established in 2010 to build strategic leadership for sustainable development in Africa (See www.centrelsd.org). The Centre was formally registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission on January 17, 2010 with registration number CAC/IT/No. 36563.
The Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, 2007 stipulates that the Holder
of a Mining Lease, Small Scale Mining Lease or Quarry Lease, shall,
prior to the commencement of any development, activity within the
lease area, conclude with the host community
Nigeria is a resource endowed country. Official statistics suggest that the country has over 44 solid minerals distributed across the 36 States of the country.
The future belongs to the youth. As leaders of tomorrow, the youths should begin
to act today. Young people possess enormous power and responsibility to
influence the political direction of their countries.
Anambra State is one of the fast growing states located in southeast Nigeria with an estimated population of over five million in 2013, based on the 2006 census figures and a growth rate of 2.8%.
The problem of poor natural resource management manifests in various ways. There is no independent, objective and fair oversight of the sector.
It is well known that the Nigerian nation for several decades has continued to grapple with the challenge of effectively utilizing its resources to support equitable economic growth, effective service delivery and social cohesion.
The main Report, commissioned by Centre LSD, which preceded this present edition contained extensive review work on the state of policies and legislation to combat the menace of corruption in Nigeria and comparative analysis of the anti-corruption laws and policies of other jurisdictions within and outside Africa.
