To effectively meet the growing trend of infections among infants and growing infections in rural Nigeria, Lawyers Alert proposes the...

Written by Adeyemi Adepetun THE growth profile of Nigeria’s electronic commerce (e-commerce) industry, with a current value of $35...

by equalityedge There are many major gender based inequality issues in our societies that need addressing: on the one hand there is rape...

Lawyers Alert is pleased to announce that its President, Rommy Mom Esq, is one of four persons shortlisted for the Index Censorship...

by NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA Nigeria’s significant housing demand has been estimated at 17 million, with an additional 2 million units needed...

………Coalition for Sexual Rights in Nigeria 1. Clause 1(1): Marriage contract or civil union entered into between persons of same sex is...

We, the undersigned human rights defenders, groups, individuals and civil society organizations hereby demand that the recent passage of...

A CALL FOR ACTION ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE SAME SEX MARRIAGE PROHIBITION BILL, 2011 ON INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN...

…….Victor TC Anyanwu 2014 marks Nigeria’s 100years of existence, with the evolution of various problems and developmental challenges far...

…..Comrade Nelson Nnanna Nwafor All through its history, and throughout all the metamorphosis that it has undergone, the Nigeria National...

By Victoria Ohaeri Victoria Ohaeri The growing repression of citizen reporters and advocates that challenge the never-seen-before levels...

…….Elvis –Wura Towolawi. History and Time have not been fair to women. In many societies in the world, being born a girl-child, into the...

Photo: Discharged former Maoist rebels and child soldiers carry their belongings after a ceremony at Rolpa,west of Katmandu, Nepal,...

When ELVIS-WURA TOWOLAWI walked into my office and discussed starting a human rights education project in churches in Makurdi, Benue...

Nelson Mandela ( Madiba) 1918- 2013 #NelsonMandela

by Colin Stewart Location of Katsina State in Nigeria. The legislature of Katsina State in northern Nigeria added to that country’s...

By Abubakar Ibn Kachalla Recently, the Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Hans Hodel, said his country had discharged its legal obligations...

The Senate has reached an advanced stage to pass a bill that seeks seven years jail term for social media critics found guilty of...

–  The Punch MORE than two centuries after the obnoxious trade in human beings was officially abolished in the British Empire in 1807,...

Ben Ezeamalu The Nigeria Civil Society Election Situation Room monitored the supplementary election. The just concluded supplementary...

Kabura Zakama Randomised A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), has observed that less than 26 per...

……. Elvis Wura Towolawi Wherever there is power, naked and unrestrained – abuse of same is inevitable. This age- tested philosophy...

Taken from UNA Vancouver “The worst crisis most people have never heard of” – Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the UN. As a community of...

….. Anne G Bahá’í Scripture emphatically states that women will be the greatest factor in establishing universal peace and international...