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...

We deeply deplore the vicious, ruthless attacks against civilians in the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga, where Boko Haram has...

Still without a voters card? as the elections approaches, try the below link http://voters.inecnigeria.org/static/lgas/ #INEC...

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....

By Otive Igbuzor, PhD Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD) 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...

As Nigeria prepares for the 2015 Elections, Seermber Nyager takes a look at the elections from the perspective of the Freedom of...

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...

Lawyers Alert, LA, recently visited and met with  the management of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, in Abuja over  the...

Being a Press Release by the Doing Democracy Movement, DDM. DDM have received with utter shock the untenable display of might as right,...

Aniebo Nwamu Those who, from the outset, described the National Conference as a jamboree must be laughing by now. In its last days,...

It started mildly, before one could realize, it had gone beyond proportions. The waters of River Benue had over flown it’s banks into...

Rommy Mom The President of Lawyers Alert, Rommy Mom, represents the civil society at the ongoing national conference. He once stood on a...

To many, the internet is a ‘no man’s land’ with different association exercising varying control over the web space; the United States...