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 rumour. With respect to the Hon Judge, Lawyers Alert is of the opinion that his reasoning was faulty owing principally to the fact the BSEMA did not deny the existence of the flood funds but simply stated that it was not given it . Secondly the issue of the floods and assistance thereof in Benue and Nigeria had assumed such notoriety that t

By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) More than half a million children in northern Nigeria face severe malnutrition this year in a humanitarian crisis that has largely gone unnoticed because of ongoing conflict in the region, aid agencies say. Violent clashes between insurgents and Nigeria’s security forces in 11 northern states have forced thousands of people to flee to neighbouring countries in search of food, shelter and livelihoods. Aid organisations are fi

The Founder and General Overseer of a Pentecostal Church in Benin City, Nigeria, Pastor Phillip Ogbebor is an  inmate at the federal medium security prison, Oko after  a magistrate court ordered that he be remanded for having sex with a male member of his Church. The pastor  did not the allegation of homosexuality saying  “I am only passing through temptation, my lover is 22 years old,  let God decide my case.” The Pastor  was apprehended recently by men of the State Criminal

By Timothy  Tion Timothy Tion is a Nigerian Lawyer with a passion for the intersection of law and information and communications technology or techno-legal issues and  intends to obtain an LLM in Internet Law and Policy in the near future Introduction We live in a world today where vast Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructures and extensive flows of information have become natural and unquestioned features of modern life. For instance in when I sat for

The Presidential Committee on  Nigeria Position following the UN Periodic Review in 2009, which I am a member, has finished its Draft Report. A stakeholders Forum comes up in Abuja on the 28th and 29th of June 2013. Venue is Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Time 9am daily. CSOs are especially invited to make inputs at the forum towards having an all encompassing and proven report to the UN Human Rights Council later in the year. Kindly for the purposes of making in

Press Release – Avocats Sans Frontières France / Lawyers Without Borders France Abuja, June 25, 2013 Avocats Sans Frontières France (ASFF) condemns in strong terms the execution by hanging of 4 inmates on death row on Monday June 24, 2013, in Edo State, Nigeria. These executions were carried out despite the application for stay of execution by a human rights organisation. The executed inmates still had rights to appeal the decision of the Federal High Court. Recall that in Oc

PURPOSE: This report provides a brief on the Economic & Socio-Cultural Rights training                                given to staff of the Commission. TRAINING OBJECTIVES The two-day training which took place in Abuja had the following objectives: To enhance the capacity of Staff of National Human Rights Commission in their appreciation and understanding of Socio Economic Rights. To enhance the capacity of Staff of the National Human Rights Commission in Investigating, Monit

In defence of Abuja women on AUGUST 5, 2012 · in PERISCOPE 12:07 am BY BEN AGANDE Reprieve may be on the way for Abuja women who have been at  the receiving end of alleged harassment by men of the Nigeria Police and Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), as a non-governmental organisation, Lawyers Alert Association, has dragged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General of the Federation, among others, to cour

LAWYERS ALERT AND EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN NIGERIA In its simplest form, Extra-Judicial killing connote executions outside the parameters of judicial procedure. Any killing outside of judicial pronouncement of the killing is deemed to be summary execution. The act of extra-judicial killing is about the highest human rights violations, as the victim(s) is/are denied the right to fair hearing, defense and life. In it report to mark the 63rd anniversary of the United Nations H

An Over view: Most often, campaigns into offices in Nigeria and indeed Africa are usually not issue based and even when specific undertakings and/or commitments to the electorate are made, the Electorate are not sufficiently equipped nor empowered to engage government and demand accountability. The Mandate Protection project basically seeks to build the capacity of the electorate towards demanding for accountability and transparency from the elected officials based on specifi

Lawyers Alert is a Civil Society Organisation that is non-partisan and non-profit made up substantially of Lawyers and other professionals committed to the entrenchment of democracy, rule of law and socio-economic development of residents of Nigeria. It was founded in 2000, and became operational in 2002. It is registered according to the laws of Nigeria and BenueState. We are headquartered in Makurdi, Benue State with offices in Abuja. Our vision is the entrenchment of viril