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DANGOTE CEMENT AND MBAYION COMMUNITY: DOCUMENTATION OF ESCR VIOLATION AND CEMENT PRODUCTION
– Asan Gabin Bennedict Even before the take-over of the Benue Cement Company located in the Mbayion Community of Benue State by Dangote...
Oct 8, 20133 min read


The FOI Act Should Be The Envy Of Any Democracy, Says Judge (FOI Law Report 9)
FOI Law Reports In the High Court of Justice of Benue State of Nigeria In the Benue State Judicial Division Holden at Makurdi July 15,...
Sep 25, 20138 min read


Groups Plan Freedom of Information Rally at Nigeria National Assembly on September 26
Scheduled for 10am at the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja, participating organizations in the rally include Enough is Enough...
Sep 25, 20132 min read


ASSOCIATION OF FLOOD VICTIMS PAY LAWYERS ALERT A COURTESY VISIT.
…...Laz Aule Victims of the 2012 flood disaster that affected some parts of Benue State have formed an Association that seeks to mobilize...
Sep 25, 20132 min read
Highlighting the plight of pregnant women and babies in Nigerian prisons
– Angela Uwandu, ASF France Head of Office Women and children in the Nigerian prisons across the country are plagued with several...
Sep 25, 20134 min read
Imo State ‘Abortion’ Law: Twists and Turns.
– Elvis –Wura Towolawi Literally, peace and tranquility has eluded the Executive and Legislative arms of Government in Imo State for...
Sep 25, 20136 min read
The Right to Food: Lessons from India.
– Elvis –Wura Towolawi On Monday 2nd of September, 2013, India took steps away from the table of poverty and acute malnutrition by...
Sep 25, 20135 min read
Nigeria’s GIS – SURE – P, and Youth Unemployment
In this piece Elvis – Wura Towolawi an Intern at lawyers Alert examines GIS-SURE a program the Nigeria Government rolled out in the wake...
Sep 4, 20136 min read


ASSOCIATION OF FLOOD VICTIMS PAY LAWYERS ALERT A COURTESY VISIT.
…...Laz Aule Victims of the 2012 flood disaster that affected some parts of Benue State have formed an Association that seeks to mobilize...
Aug 21, 20132 min read
EGYPTIAN CRISIS: WHITHER DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
By Elvis –Wura Towolawi The World has been enthralled, and then enraged by the disturbing events unfolding in Egypt. At first, it was...
Aug 16, 20134 min read
Forgive us our (chemical) trespasses
By Carolyn Raffensperger My environmental health friends have long argued that the fact that every last person, human and nonhuman,...
Aug 14, 20133 min read
FOI Act: Where His Lordship got it wrong
By Edetaen Ojo IN a recent ruling, his lordship, Justice Gabriel O. Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja suggested that the...
Aug 14, 20136 min read


Corporations: human rights’ real enemies?
Corporate misconduct is well-known and wide-spread. For example, Shell has been complicit in forcefully chasing the Ogoni people of...
Aug 12, 20133 min read
Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws: How a Dutch Activist Got Caught in the Crosshairs
Andrew Katz, Time On July 21, Russian authorities detained and questioned four Dutch nationals who were working on a documentary film...
Aug 5, 20134 min read
TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGEMENT IN FLOOD FUNDS MATTER
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...
Aug 5, 20138 min read


The Researchers are Coming to Get You!
Dear Christian Friends An article from the Life Issues Institute’s website (http://www.lifeissues.org/cloningstemcell/article.html)...
Aug 3, 20131 min read
Half a million children face malnutrition in forgotten crisis in northern Nigeria
By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) More than half a million children in northern Nigeria face severe malnutrition this...
Aug 3, 20134 min read
Nigeria: Pastor Goes to Jail on Account of Same Sex Conduct
The Founder and General Overseer of a Pentecostal Church in Benin City, Nigeria, Pastor Phillip Ogbebor is an inmate at the federal...
Aug 3, 20132 min read
Trying Crimes from a Human Rights Perspective
Khaled Saifullah Crime in any form undermines the rights of the victim. While some of these rights are created by national penal laws,...
Jul 25, 20136 min read


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Human rights are for humans, not for ideologies Courtesy: THE SECULAR SOCIETY, IRELAND’S STUDENT-LED SECULAR MOVEMENT A Jewish man has...
Jul 19, 20133 min read
Monitoring and Documentation of Economic and Social Rights Violations in Mbayion Community of Benue
Lawyers Alert has commenced the above project in Benue State, project location being the community hosting the Benue Cement Company. The...
Jul 18, 20132 min read


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Why It’s Hard to Believe Abortion is Wrong by Laura on July 18, 2013 I used to not think about abortion – at all. It just wasn’t on my...
Jul 18, 20134 min read


Why Sudanese President wasn’t arrested, by Foreign Ministry
Lately Nigeria seem to revel in “shocking” the world and itself out of the comity of Nations. If after Nigeria’s “interference” in the...
Jul 18, 20131 min read
RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE: MYTH OR REALITY
By Timothy Tion Timothy Tion is a Nigerian Lawyer with a passion for the intersection of law and information and communications...
Jul 18, 201312 min read
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