Citizens Free Service Forum - CFSF

Cross section of participants at the Citizens Free Service Forum - CFSF and International Labour Organization Journalist training on climate change and just transition held 23-24 September 2025 at the United Nations Building Abuja.

Citizens Free Service Forum - CFSF Executive Director, Comrade Sani Baba joined the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and other civil society groups at the 2025 national planning meeting on project activities to confront privatisation in Nigeria.

On 20 March 2025 Citizens Free Service Forum - CFSF and her partners - Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI). Environmental Defenders Network ( EDEN), Ecumenical Water Network Africa (EWNA), New Life Community Care Initiative (NELCCI), Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) and the Socio-Economic Research and Development Center (SERDEC) released a report - Dry Taps: A Damning Verdict on the State of Water Utilities in Nigeria.

Dear friends,

Ahead of the World Water Day commemoration on Saturday 22 March 2025, a coalition of water justice groups in Nigeria will today release a report - Dry Taps: A Damning Verdict on the State of Water Utilities in Nigeria.

The report examines 6 states in Nigeria - Lagos, Oyo, Kano, Enugu, Edo and Kogi - and exposes how water utilities built with public funds have been deliberately neglected by the state governments, starved of funds, and staff demotivated to ensure the collapse the utilities and ultimately pave the way for their privatisation.

The authors reject privatisation and demand instead that the Nigerian authorities declare a state of emergency in the water sector and uphold democratic public control of water utilities.

The investigation was carried out by the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), Ecumenical Water Network Africa (EWNA), Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), Citizens Free Service Forum (CFSF), New Life Community Care Initiative (NELCCI) and Socio-Economic Research and Development Center (SERDEC).

More details coming...

CFSF and our union allies at a symposium and protest march for reversal of electricity sector Privatisation held December 13 in Maryland, Lagos.

Privatization in Focus: Socio-Economic & Political Impacts on Nigeria’s Public Assets The Public Services International (PSI), the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Technical and Recreational Employees (AUPCTRE), and the National Union...

Picture of the CFSF team that paid a courtesy visit to the office of the Water Resources Engineering Construction Agency (WRECA) in Kano on Thursday, 19 December 2024.

WRECA, established in 1975 was responsible for the construction of earth dams, roads, canals and other civil engineering projects. Public sector enthusiasts believe WRECA is one of the organisations that can drive the Public-Public Partnership model of managing public assets and utilities.

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