Dusk: A Dangerous Time To Be Female In Nigeria
By Rommy Mom Esq The periodic indiscriminate arrest of women in Abuja has a history. Whenever there is push back either from intensive...
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- Jan 17, 2019
- 5 min
Love and Equity: The Stride towards ending Gender Based Violence
By Jerome Uneje Baba Junior, not again! “Must you always look for an excuse to hit me…tonight you will kill me o! Just because you think...
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- Feb 12, 2018
- 5 min
HUMAN RIGHTS, SECURITY AND THE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION
By Rommy Mom Esq, President, Lawyers Alert INTRODUCTION Institutionalized Government historically evolved from persons within a...
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- Dec 11, 2017
- 5 min
#StandUp4HumanRights
…..by Laz Mom “ Nigeria : Fifty Persons slaughtered in renewed clashes between Farmers and Herdsmen.’’ “ US : Boy 18, gunned down by...
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- Sep 8, 2017
- 5 min
NIGERIA AND THE FAILURE OF DATA AND POPULATION FIGURES
By Jerome Uneje We are 150 million he shouted! No we are over 200 million! He shouts back! 150! No, 200 million plus where are you...
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- Feb 23, 2017
- 1 min
Nigeria Civil Society Advocacy Points on the 2017 Budget Proposals
*Ministries, Departments and Agencies5Create a health basket fund from bilateral and multilateral funding for the health sector within...
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- Nov 26, 2015
- 4 min
TAX JUSTICE, PRESUMPTIONS AND THE BENUE WOMAN
By Jerome Uneje. It’s a hot Monday afternoon, sun is high up in the sky, temperature in the city of Makurdi is as high as the afternoon...
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- Sep 9, 2015
- 12 min
THE MEDIA IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NIGERIA OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY CONTENT DEVELOPMENT ACT, 2010
A PAPER PRESENTED BY THE FORMER MINISTER OF LANDS, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, RT. HON. NDUESE ESSIEN, TO MEMBERS OF THE NIGERIA UNION...
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- Sep 7, 2015
- 2 min
Civil society, media call for stiffer punishment for violation of Local Content Act
Civil society groups and the media have called on the Nigerian government to impose stiffer punishment on multinational oil firms, which...
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- Sep 4, 2015
- 5 min
THE LOCAL CONTENT ACT 2010 AND THE NIGERIA OIL AND GAS SECTOR, BEING A PAPER PRESENTED BY OREBIYI TE
PREAMBLE This paper is not an academic discourse, it is basically to tease out the content of the law, its genesis and also an attempt at...
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- Sep 4, 2015
- 3 min
OIL AND GAS SECTOR:COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A ONE DAY MEETING OF THE CSOs/MEDIA WORKING GROUP
A joint Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, and Media meeting held today the 3rd Day of September 2015 at Ajuji Hotel Abuja with regard to...
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- Aug 16, 2015
- 6 min
Is Agip Above The Law?
August 16, 2015Premium Times I am not a fan of any of the multi-national oil companies operating in the country. The reason for my...
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- Jul 19, 2015
- 3 min
U.S. to trace Nigerian stolen assets, boost military help
By Lesley Wroughton The United States will offer to help Nigeria’s new leader track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and...
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- Jul 15, 2015
- 3 min
The Changing Face Of Business In Nigeria
By Amy Jadesimi Ask most people what they think of Nigeria and the answer will likely include references to oil, population and...
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- Jun 23, 2015
- 3 min
Buhari, Nigerian leader faces monumental struggle with graft
By Marianne Barriaux Lagos (AFP) – When Nigeria’s new first lady Aisha Buhari appeared at her husband’s inauguration wearing what looked...
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- May 31, 2015
- 5 min
From MDGs to SDGs: Indigenous African women as missing link
By Gwain Colbert It was President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia who said at the opening of the International Institute of Democracy...
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- May 15, 2015
- 2 min
Nigeria’s Economy: President-Elect Buhari Will Face Fuel Shortages, Low Revenues And Boko Hara
By Kathleen Caulderwood @kcaulderwood k.caulderwood@ibtimes.com Men guide a boat carrying drums filled with refined stolen oil through a...
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- May 7, 2015
- 5 min
Why Buhari must discontinue fuel subsidy
By Eze Onyekpere Nigerians have elected a new government at the centre and there are great expectations of change that will lead to...
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- May 7, 2015
- 2 min
High Court declares the right to health Justiciable in Uganda
Kampala –Uganda – The High Court of Uganda has today declared that the right to health can be justiciable in Uganda. While delivering a...
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- Apr 27, 2015
- 3 min
The Right to Information. Nigerias’ Snap Picture
……..Jimmy Tor Esq The general notion in the country is that corruption is the foremost challenge hindering the development of the...
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