By Carolyn Raffensperger My environmental health friends have long argued that the fact that every last person, human and nonhuman,...

By Edetaen Ojo IN a recent ruling, his lordship, Justice Gabriel O. Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja suggested that the...

Corporate misconduct is well-known and wide-spread. For example, Shell has been complicit in forcefully chasing the Ogoni people of...

Andrew Katz, Time On July 21, Russian authorities detained and questioned four Dutch nationals who were working on a documentary film...

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...

Dear Christian Friends An article from the Life Issues Institute’s website (http://www.lifeissues.org/cloningstemcell/article.html)...

By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) More than half a million children in northern Nigeria face severe malnutrition this...

The Founder and General Overseer of a Pentecostal Church in Benin City, Nigeria, Pastor Phillip Ogbebor is an  inmate at the federal...

Khaled Saifullah Crime in any form undermines the rights of the victim. While some of these rights are created by national penal laws,...

Human rights are for humans, not for ideologies Courtesy: THE SECULAR SOCIETY, IRELAND’S STUDENT-LED SECULAR MOVEMENT A Jewish man has...

Lawyers Alert has commenced the above project in Benue State, project location being the community hosting the Benue Cement Company. The...

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...

Lately Nigeria seem to revel in “shocking” the world and itself out of the comity of Nations. If after Nigeria’s “interference” in the...

By Timothy  Tion Timothy Tion is a Nigerian Lawyer with a passion for the intersection of law and information and communications...

Anchoring his demand on the Freedom of Information Law  2011, Gabin Asan Bennedict has written to the Bureau of Local Government and...

The Benue High Court 2 presided by the Hon. Justice Ada Onum today dismissed the suit filed by Rommy Mom Esq seeking details on the...

The appeal was brought by three killers – Jeremy Bamber (L), Douglas Vinter (C) and Peter Moore The European Court of Human Rights has...

The matter before the Makurdi High Court wherein Rommy Mom seeks information from BSEMA on the status of the flood victims fund has been...

A number of registered NGOs in Benue State have come together under a coalition with the objective of suing the Benue State Government to...

The Presidential Committee on  Nigeria Position following the UN Periodic Review in 2009, which I am a member, has finished its Draft...

Press Release – Avocats Sans Frontières France / Lawyers Without Borders France Abuja, June 25, 2013 Avocats Sans Frontières France...

By Elvis Towolawi Esq In recent history, if there is any strand of human rights that has come under great threat of extinction and...

Empowering Women Reduces Violence By Ian Hughes ……disordered World The global struggle for gender equality is not only about justice....

Recall Lawyers Alert had sued the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Commissioner of Police of the FCT seeking ...