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...
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- Aug 14, 2013
- 3 min
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,...
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- Aug 14, 2013
- 6 min
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...
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- Aug 5, 2013
- 8 min
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...
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- Aug 3, 2013
- 4 min
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...
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- Aug 3, 2013
- 2 min
Nigeria: Pastor Goes to Jail on Account of Same Sex Conduct
The Founder and General Overseer of a Pentecostal Church in Benin City, Nigeria, Pastor Phillip Ogbebor is an inmate at the federal...
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- Jul 25, 2013
- 6 min
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,...
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- Jul 18, 2013
- 12 min
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...
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- Jul 15, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 9, 2013
- 5 min
Killers’ life terms ‘breach their human rights’
The appeal was brought by three killers – Jeremy Bamber (L), Douglas Vinter (C) and Peter Moore The European Court of Human Rights has...
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- Jul 8, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 8, 2013
- 2 min
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...
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- Jun 27, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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- Jun 26, 2013
- 2 min
Four executions in Edo State, the end of the moratorium
Press Release – Avocats Sans Frontières France / Lawyers Without Borders France Abuja, June 25, 2013 Avocats Sans Frontières France...
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- Jun 26, 2013
- 3 min
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INVASION: STRIKING A BALANCE
By Elvis Towolawi Esq In recent history, if there is any strand of human rights that has come under great threat of extinction and...
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- May 29, 2013
- 4 min
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...
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- May 2, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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- Apr 29, 2013
- 5 min
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...
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- Apr 26, 2013
- 6 min
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...
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- Aug 28, 2012
- 5 min
EDUCATING/SENSITING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF OFFENDERS HUMAN RIGHTS: FOCUS ON BENUE, PLATEAU A
EDUCATING/SENSITING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF OFFENDERS HUMAN RIGHTS: FOCUS ON BENUE, PLATEAU AND NASARAWA STATES OF NIGERIA. This...
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