On Tuesday 24 February 2015, a bill, Cybercrime Bill passed second reading at the House of Representative – the lower legislative arm in...

Volunteer Lawyers across 23 states in Nigeria came together in Abuja between the 2nd to 6th of February 2015 to educate themselves on the...

By ELVIS-WURA TOWOLAWI Election is an indispensable factor that validates democracy and when considered free and fair – confers...

I am Baga. I am an African. And it concerns me – all of this madness and mayhem. I am Charlie second to being Baga. Yet the eyes of the...

Yesterday, on January 11, 2015, the world witnessed an unprecedented demonstration of solidarity in Paris. In an extraordinary coming...

By Elvis-wura Towolawi Recently, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) disclosed that it has on record 981, 416 Internally...

by Andrew Smith, Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19 Identifying and understanding the contours of that relationship has always been a deeply...

By Elvis-Wura Towolawi Take this as an unofficial allocotus, but we cannot turn a blind eye to a social sore that’s fast festering. A...

By Elvis-Wura Towolawi One of the hallmarks and pillars; nay, benefits of a virile democracy is the leverage given to the citizenry to...

By Elvis-wura Towolawi The recent attack in Paris on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebd by some extremist elements has left 12...

President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to take decisive action against troublemakers before, during and after the 2015 general elections....

Being a Press Release By NOPRIN NOPRIN is a network of 46 civil society organisations spread across Nigeria and committed to promoting...

Credits: BBC The Freedom of Information Act came in 10 years ago. It’s led to the unearthing of a trove of facts. Ten years ago, thanks...

In an interview with NPR.com, Nigerian Gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi, who was the first person to come out as gay on Nigerian TV,...

Front Line Defenders is currently accepting nominations for the Eleventh Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk...

the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 by Marc Limon, Nazila Ghanea and Hilary Power It is almost impossible to turn...

2014 Award Winners Held on March 21, 2014 at the Barbican Centre, the 2014 Freedom of Expression Awards honoured these four courageous...

Alicia Ely Yamin 23 October 2014 The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many lessons, not least for global...

By Horace G. Campbell Ali A. Mazrui the great humanist joined the ancestors on Sunday, 12 October, 2014 in Binghamton, New York, where he...

The beauty and glory of any democracy lies in the ability of the people to voice dissent–Free expression. In fact, the cardinal pillars...