Lawyers Alert with the kind assistance of  AmplifyChange has developed a Documentation of sexual and reproductive health rights violation...

By Roseline Oghnebrume Lawyers Alert in partnership with UNAIDS Nigeria, brought together human rights lawyers under the auspices of...

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....

BY 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...

Written by Yinka Adegoke For some Nigerians, there’s an inevitable feeling of deja-vu about their country’s former petroleum minister,...

A PAPER PRESENTED BY THE FORMER MINISTER OF LANDS, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, RT. HON. NDUESE ESSIEN, TO MEMBERS OF THE NIGERIA UNION...

Civil society groups and the media have called on the Nigerian government to impose stiffer punishment on multinational oil firms, which...

PREAMBLE 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...

A joint Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, and Media meeting held today the 3rd Day of September 2015 at Ajuji Hotel Abuja with regard to...

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

By Leo Igwe President Muhammad Buhari has stated during his recent visit to the US that his government would not consider decriminalizing...

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...

By Dr. Otive Igbuzor Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD) The President Muhammadu...

By Osilama Okuofu Sixteen unbroken years into our present democratic experience and Nigerians are none better than what transpired under...

By Rommy Mom In the last four weeks or so, a gale of anti Ortom wind has ‘literally” blown off Tiv community listserves! Interrogation...

By Lesley Wroughton The United States will offer to help Nigeria’s new leader track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and...

By Amy Jadesimi Ask most people what they think of Nigeria and the answer will likely include references to oil, population and...

By Wendy Wright NEW YORK, July 10 (C-Fam) Nigeria publicly chastised the UN human rights office for trampling on universally-agreed...

By James T Apev Esq. Poverty means much more than having no income, food and education. The majority of the poorest are also...

…….Rommy Mom Esq Onyeche looks through her window to see the evening sun go down as it makes way for the fast approaching dusk. Her eyes...

By Obinna Anyadike Photo: Nigerian Defence Headquarters Security and humanitarian priorities – out of kilter? NAIROBI, 5 June 2015 (IRIN)...

President Al-Bashir’s atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region churn the stomach. African leaders who are shielding him from arrest do...

By Marianne Barriaux Lagos (AFP) – When Nigeria’s new first lady Aisha Buhari appeared at her husband’s inauguration wearing what looked...