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Mar 25, 20193 minDISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT 2018: WAY FORWARDBy Ifeyinwa Onochie The National Population Commission of Nigeria (NPC) has estimated that no fewer than 19 million Nigerians are living...
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Nov 5, 20184 minWomen Participation in Politics: 2018 Primaries in FocusCompiled by Mr Lazarus M.A, Miss Jerum Uneje, R.A. Hwande Esq and S.P. Oobulu Esq. Women are an integral part of the political process...
Nov 2, 20184 minConcluded Party Primaries: A Perspective and Matters ArisingCompiled by: Mr Lazarus m., Miss Jerume Uneje, R.A. Hwande Esq and S.P. Ozobulu Esq. If democracy is the government of the people for...
Apr 28, 20181 minLAWYERS ALERT RELEASES REPORT ON MILITARY INVASION OF NAKA, BENUE STATE, NIGERIA.Following the invasion and razing down of the Naka, a town in Benue state by the Nigeria military on the 19th day of April, 2018, Lawyers...
Mar 28, 20184 minIncrease State Resource Allocation on HIV efforts: Lawyers Alert Tells the National Assembly at theThe Nigeria Budget Proposals, or better properly called “The 2018 Appropriation Bill” which encapsulates what and how the federal...
Mar 9, 20186 minWomen and the Benue KillingsBy Jerome Mary Uneje The sound of the whistle pierces through the quiet dark night in the neighbourhood of Ityo Gbenda, a suburb of...
Feb 23, 20171 minNigeria 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...
Oct 12, 20158 minTHE EVOLUTION OF BOKO HARAM AND THE ROLE OF CITIZENSBY ROMMY MOM Beginnings of Boko Haram It is widely believed that the movement started out as a pious and strict way of Islam intended to...
Oct 5, 20152 minBehind the arrest of a Nigerian ex-minister in London is a maturing Nigerian presidentWritten by Yinka Adegoke For some Nigerians, there’s an inevitable feeling of deja-vu about their country’s former petroleum minister,...
Sep 9, 201512 minTHE MEDIA IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NIGERIA OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY CONTENT DEVELOPMENT ACT, 2010A PAPER PRESENTED BY THE FORMER MINISTER OF LANDS, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, RT. HON. NDUESE ESSIEN, TO MEMBERS OF THE NIGERIA UNION...
Sep 7, 20152 minCivil society, media call for stiffer punishment for violation of Local Content ActCivil society groups and the media have called on the Nigerian government to impose stiffer punishment on multinational oil firms, which...
Sep 4, 20155 minTHE LOCAL CONTENT ACT 2010 AND THE NIGERIA OIL AND GAS SECTOR, BEING A PAPER PRESENTED BY OREBIYI TEPREAMBLE 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...
Sep 4, 20153 minOIL AND GAS SECTOR:COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A ONE DAY MEETING OF THE CSOs/MEDIA WORKING GROUPA joint Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, and Media meeting held today the 3rd Day of September 2015 at Ajuji Hotel Abuja with regard to...
Aug 16, 20156 minIs 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...
Aug 12, 20154 minTHE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY CHANGEBy Dr. Otive Igbuzor Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD) The President Muhammadu...
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