Lagos Water Corporation’s Propaganda Against Sacked Workers Disappointing, Says CAPPA
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has expressed shock and disappointment over what it described as the Lagos Water Corporation (LWC) management’s mischievous propaganda regarding the payment of entitlements to 391 workers recently served letters of disengagement by the corporation. CAPPA’s criticism comes in response to a recent statement by the Managing Director of […]
Mainstream Water Access, Climate Change Programming, Gender Justice into Health Policies – CAPPA tells Govt
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has said it is essential for the government to mainstream water access, climate change programming, gender justice, food and tobacco control policies into health policies to achieve health equity. The group, during a webinar to mark the 2024 World Health Day with the theme: ‘My Health, My […]
OWORAC Commemorates World Water Day 2024
On the occasion of World Water Day 2024, observed on March 22, the Our Water Our Right Coalition – a group and network of pro-public water advocates, labour unionists, activists, and communities across Africa – convened a hybrid press conference to commemorate the day and its theme, “Water for Peace’’. In his opening remark at […]
CAPPA asks state governments to solve water inaccessibility in Nigeria
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on state governments to solve water inaccessibility in Nigeria. In an address to commemorate World Water Day 2024, Oluwafemi Akinbode, CAPPA’s executive director, noted that over 400 million people across Africa still lack access to safe drinking water. Akinbode spoke on Friday, in Lagos at a […]
World Water Day: 113 Million Nigerians lack access to drinkable Water
A Pan-African organization, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), has bemoaned the fact that millions of people in Africa and Nigeria in particular lack access to drinkable water. 400 million people in Africa and 110 million in Nigeria are currently deprived of the basic right to safe drinkable water — a development described as […]
World Water Day: 113 Million Nigerians Deprived Of Drinkable Water — CAPPA
A Pan-African organisation, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), has decried poor access to water by millions of people in Africa and Nigeria in particular. The organisation said over 400 million people in Africa and 110 million in Nigeria were deprived of the basic right to safe drinkable water — a development it described […]
World Water Day 2024: Public Control of Water Promotes Community Peace
Statement by Akinbode Oluwafemi, Executive Director, Corporate Accountability & Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) at the Our Water Our Right Coalition’s (OWORAC) Press Conference to Mark World Water Day on March 22, 2024 Today, on the occasion of World Water Day 2024, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) denounces the unjust reality that over 400 […]
110 million Nigerians lack safe drinking water — Report
Over 400 million people in Africa and 110 million in Nigeria lack access to the basic right to safe drinkable water. The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) made the declaration on Saturday to mark International Water Day. It expressed worry over the poor access to water by millions of people in Africa and […]
Over eight million Lagosians lack access to good water – CSO
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa has said over eight million Lagos state residents still lack access to potable water due to inaccessibility to good water on privatisation. The Chief Executive Officer of CAPPA, Akinbode Oluwafemi, made this known on Friday while commemorating the annual World Water Day under this year’s theme of ‘Water for […]
‘We haven’t had potable water in 15 years’
Following reports of water contamination in some parts of Lagos State and ahead of the World Water Day on March 22, 2024, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA)’s water team members SEFA IKPA and GIDEON ADEYENI visited Iludun Town, in Agege Local Government Area (LGA), where residents narrated their water challenges. A resident, Mrs. Felicia Fagbemi, told CAPPA […]
