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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
EGYPTIAN CRISIS: WHITHER DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
By Elvis –Wura Towolawi The World has been enthralled, and then enraged by the disturbing events unfolding in Egypt. At first, it was...
Aug 16, 20134 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
FOI Act: Where His Lordship got it wrong
By Edetaen Ojo IN a recent ruling, his lordship, Justice Gabriel O. Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja suggested that the...
Aug 14, 20136 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
RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE: MYTH OR REALITY
By Timothy Tion Timothy Tion is a Nigerian Lawyer with a passion for the intersection of law and information and communications...
Jul 18, 201312 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
SUSWAM WANTS ME DEAD Being text of a Press
SUSWAM WANTS ME DEAD Being text of a Press Release by Rommy Mom Esq, President, Lawyers Alert BACKGROUND After the flood that displaced...
May 29, 20134 min read
Unlawful Killings in Nigeria: It could have been me
By Rommy Mom esq After the hearing of my case in the Makurdi High Court on the 9th of May 2013, I was billed to leave for Abuja on the...
May 11, 20134 min read
COURT REPORT: ROMMY MOM VS. BSEMA
The matter between Rommy Mom Esq and the Benue State Emergency Agency came up today the 9th May 2013 before the Hon. Justice Ada Onum of...
May 9, 20131 min read
CASE TO UNRAVEL WHY BENUE STATE WILL NOT RELEASE FLOOD RELIEF FUNDS FOR HEARING ON THE 9TH DAY OF MA
We all are aware of the flooding that ravaged people and communities in Benue. As a result, the FG, Philanthropists, State Governments...
May 2, 20131 min read


Illegality of Clamping Cars in the FCT
No doubt the need for resources exists to enable governments, including the government of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja to...
Apr 29, 20135 min read
Lawyers Alert Protecting Women’s Rights in Abuja
At the dark corners across Abuja popular streets, away from the street lights, men in uniform allegedly commit rape under the guise of...
Apr 26, 20136 min read
REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHT ENFORCEMENT; LAWYER’S ALERT AND EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN NIGERIA
LAWYERS ALERT AND EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN NIGERIA In its simplest form, Extra-Judicial killing connote executions outside the...
Jun 19, 20122 min read
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