Seven senior male Oxfam officials have been investigated over safeguarding allegations in the past year, including sexual harassment and the covering up of exploitation. The seven men in question are working as country directors in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A total of 37 country directors are supervised by Oxfam GB. These particular cases are […]
Read More Nigeria’s Oxfam, Programme Coordinator of Good Governance, Mr. Celestine Okwudili, confirmed that Oxfam has assisted 245,000 people in Nigeria with water, sanitation and hygiene kits. He said that aim was to improve lives in the short term and create long-term sustainable change. Okwudili, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Jos, […]
Read More Oxfam International on Wednesday in Abuja unveiled its ‘Inequality in Nigeria’ report, which revealed the harsh economic reality in a country where 112 million citizens live in abject poverty, stating that the combined wealth of five of her richest citizens, put at about $29.9bn, could end extreme poverty in the nation. Quoting Forbes, the agency […]
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The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing that the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population. Timed to coincide with this week’s gathering of many of the super-rich at the annual World Economic Forum in […]
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