Maryamu Aminu

In January, we started off the new year with information that Big Oil was putting pressure on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to water down their forthcoming rule to implement of the Cardin-Lugar law (Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act).

Life carries on outside of a major gold mine in Ghana. Photo credit: Olivier Blaise/ PWYP On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally voted to adopt the final rules implementing the Cardin-Lugar extractives transparency provision or Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The law passed in July 2010 and these long-awaited rules were

Last week, in a very proud moment for ONE members, our former CEO David Lane, appeared before Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., and Ranking Member Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., of the US Senate’s Subcommittee on Africa as a presidential nominee to the position of US Ambassador to the UN food agencies in Rome, Italy: the Food and

Tuesday is going to be an exciting day at ONE. On April 17, a diverse array of 150 ONE members from the college, faith, medical and retired military, homemaker, and volunteer communities from across the country are going to be on Capitol Hill. They will be taking your collective messages to members of Congress, asking

Photo credit: Noelle LuSane. Today Africa lost a faithful champion, and ONE lost a true friend in the fight against extreme poverty. In the early hours of the morning, Congressman Donald Milford Payne (NJ-10), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health and member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), lost his battle

Each day this week, we’ll highlight a major accomplishment in the fight against poverty that ONE members helped achieve in 2011. Today, ONE’s Assistant Director of ONE’s Government Relations Team Maryamu Aminu discusses our impact on the US FY2012 budget. Did the year fly by for you? If you measure by our work, it was

Once again, Nigerians have been ranked the happiest, most optimistic and most hopeful in the world. As one of many Nigerians dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country, it’s easy to disagree, especially given how the country and its people are portrayed in the media. Nigerians have spent the majority of our

Big, big news: The Cardin-Lugar Transparency amendment just passed in the Senate! Late in May, ONE put out an urgent call to all our members to call their Senators and urge them to vote in favor of including the Cardin-Lugar Transparency amendment to the Senate Financial Regulation bill. Our members generated more than 1,000 calls

Late in May, ONE put out an urgent call to all our members to call their Senators and urge them to vote in favor of including the Cardin-Lugar Transparency amendment to the Senate Financial Regulation bill. Our members generated over 1,000 calls to the senate and helped secure enough support for its sponsors Senator Ben

Last month, we asked ONE members to petition their Senators to sign a bi-partisan letter to Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Ranking-Member Judd Gregg (R-NH) of the Senate Budget Committee. This letter urged them to fully fund the administration’s request of $58.5 billion for international affairs (also known as the 150 account). Thanks to your

As we approach the homestretch of the budget process for fiscal year 2011, we remind ourselves that we are fighting for funding increases for effective aid programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; put millions more children in school; save the lives of millions of mothers and young children; provide millions more with access to