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World gender gap index 2013: see how countries compare, Nigeria ranks 106.

by Ami Sedghi theguardian.com Iceland has been named the country with the narrowest gender gap in the world by the World economic Forum....

Oct 31, 20132 min read

DANGOTE CEMENT AND MBAYION COMMUNITY: DOCUMENTATION OF ESCR VIOLATION AND CEMENT PRODUCTION

– Asan Gabin Bennedict Even before the take-over of the Benue Cement Company located in the Mbayion Community of Benue State by Dangote...

Oct 8, 20133 min read

The FOI Act Should Be The Envy Of Any Democracy, Says Judge (FOI Law Report 9)

FOI Law Reports In the High Court of Justice of Benue State of Nigeria In the Benue State Judicial Division Holden at Makurdi July 15,...

Sep 25, 20138 min read

Groups Plan Freedom of Information Rally at Nigeria National Assembly on September 26

Scheduled for 10am at the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja, participating organizations in the rally include Enough is Enough...

Sep 25, 20132 min read

The Right to Food: Lessons from India.

– Elvis –Wura Towolawi On Monday 2nd of September, 2013, India took steps away from the table of poverty and acute malnutrition by...

Sep 25, 20135 min read

Nigeria’s GIS – SURE – P, and Youth Unemployment

In this piece Elvis – Wura Towolawi an Intern at lawyers Alert examines GIS-SURE a program the Nigeria Government rolled out in the wake...

Sep 4, 20136 min read

Forgive us our (chemical) trespasses

By Carolyn Raffensperger My environmental health friends have long argued that the fact that every last person, human and nonhuman,...

Aug 14, 20133 min read

TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGEMENT IN FLOOD FUNDS MATTER

Below is the copy of judgment as delivered by Justice Ada Onum of the Benue State High Court who referred to and styled the flood funds a...

Aug 5, 20138 min read

Half a million children face malnutrition in forgotten crisis in northern Nigeria

By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) More than half a million children in northern Nigeria face severe malnutrition this...

Aug 3, 20134 min read

Trying Crimes from a Human Rights Perspective

Khaled Saifullah Crime in any form undermines the rights of the victim. While some of these rights are created by national penal laws,...

Jul 25, 20136 min read

FLOOD ASSISTANCE FUNDS A RUMOUR SAYS COURT

The Benue High Court 2 presided by the Hon. Justice Ada Onum today dismissed the suit filed by Rommy Mom Esq seeking details on the...

Jul 15, 20131 min read

FLOOD VICTIMS FUND MATTER: JUDGEMENT FOR 15TH JULY 2013

The matter before the Makurdi High Court wherein Rommy Mom seeks information from BSEMA on the status of the flood victims fund has been...

Jul 8, 20131 min read

COALITION OF BENUE NGOS TO SUE BENUE STATE GOVT TO HAND OVER FLOOD FUND TO VICTIMS

A number of registered NGOs in Benue State have come together under a coalition with the objective of suing the Benue State Government to...

Jul 8, 20132 min read

DRAFT REPORT National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights C

The Presidential Committee on Nigeria Position following the UN Periodic Review in 2009, which I am a member, has finished its Draft...

Jun 27, 20131 min read

Rommy Mom vs BSEMA

Suit between Rommy Mom Esq and BSEMA successfully relisted today. Full hearing slated for 13th June, 2013. #13thjune #mom

Jun 3, 20131 min read

Benue Government hints on how Flood Money will be Spent

In a Phone in Program on Harvest FM, today 21st May 2013, an official of BSEMA reportedly mentioned that the State Government will use...

May 21, 20131 min read

Suswam Government Did NOT Give us Flood Money – BSEMA

Benue State Emergency Managemnet Agency BSEMA today filed its reply in the suit brought against it by Rommy Mom Esq, President of Lawyers...

May 17, 20133 min read

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