By Elvis Torkuma. Project Officer. We carried out need assessment in Kabusa a community within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja...

By Innocent Doris U ESQ This day was declared on December 17, 1999, by the United Nations (UN), 20 years ago, but the history of this...

In recent times, we have seen the girl child break the bounds and limits society placed on her in the past. Now, the girl child can dare...

By Devaan M. Mom Busola Dakolo’s decision to call her pastor out could not have been an easy one. She is after all, a successful...

By Doris U. Innocent Esq Sexual rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international human...

Sunday Adaji Esq On behalf of Lawyers Alert, we join other NGOs, CSOs and the entire womenfolk to say Happy Mother’s Day. March 31 of...

By Ifeyinwa Onochie The National Population Commission of Nigeria (NPC) has estimated that no fewer than 19 million Nigerians are living...

by Kyenpya Katkuk Esq In the light of the recent event celebrating women on International Women’s day all over the world on the 8th of...

By Jerome Uneje Baba Junior, not again! “Must you always look for an excuse to hit me…tonight you will kill me o!  Just because you think...

By Yua Miriam A taxi driver on his way to the motor park was attracted to a young lady who is a newspaper vendor. He decided to stop by...

Introduction On the 24th of September 2018, a case of human trafficking was reported to us at Lawyers Alert for legal advice and possible...

Dated 12Th June 2018. The problem of gender-based violence (GBV) is an age-long problem in our communities which has led to loss of...

In continuation of our project which seeks to reduce and eliminate violence against women and girls, Lawyers alert has added 5 states to...

By Jerome Mary Uneje The sound of the whistle pierces through the quiet dark night in the neighbourhood of Ityo Gbenda, a suburb of...

By Jerome Uneje Bang! Bang!! Bang!!! Bot (not real name) keeps hitting on the door as he hollers her name in the still of the night....

By Jerome Uneje. It’s a hot Monday afternoon, sun is high up in the sky, temperature in the city of Makurdi is as high as the afternoon...

Governor Al Makura By Jerome Uneje Mary So much has been written and heard concerning this issue in both the social and mainstream media....

Nigerians were generally jubilant when news of the rescue of large groups of women abducted by Boko Haram broke. Prior to that many had...

Abridged paper developed by the Da’wah Institute of Nigeria (DIN) of the Islamic Education Trust (IET) Minna, and the Development...

By Gwain Colbert It was President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia who said at the opening of the International Institute of Democracy...