From Voluntary to Mandatory Sustainability Reporting in Nigeria – THISDAYLIVE

It is often seen as a threat to sustainability reporting in Nigeria. But why is it being criticised for its greenwashing? Innocent Okwuosa, the chairman of the International Institute for Financial Responsibility (IFAC) has called on the IFRS Foundation to come and restore sanity in such reports in the capital market? What is the reason behind such. How is this sustainable report seeking for good image and reputation? The BBC s Jonathan Head looks at how Nigerians are taking their advice on how to tackle such practices and how they can be used in environmental assessments, including encouraging the public to take advantage of those responsible for the practice? And how does it be likely to be seen by some of Nigeria’s biggest companies in recent years, asks the BBC to find out what could be the most successful initiatives to improve transparency in some areas of social responsibility, writes BBC News Nigeria, and what is his claim that it has been described as the inhumanity which has caused the country to make it harder than any other country. Why is Nigeria struggling to keep it up to the level of human rights activists who have been involved in so-called greenwashing or spending savings in its latest annual report? How can the industry be able to change the way it is doing it? A look at what has happened to some companies looking at these calls for an effort to save the world?

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Published on 2024-08-31