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FACILITATION OF EFFECTIVE SRHR MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA BEGINS.
Lawyers Alert on the 14th and 15th of May 2018 organised a meeting with Lawyers representing the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria...
May 18, 20181 min read
LAWYERS ALERT RELEASES REPORT ON MILITARY INVASION OF NAKA, BENUE STATE, NIGERIA.
Following the invasion and razing down of the Naka, a town in Benue state by the Nigeria military on the 19th day of April, 2018, Lawyers...
Apr 28, 20181 min read
LAWYERS ALERT RELEASES DATA ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WITH REGARD TO HOMOSEXUALS IN NIGERIA
The report is a compendium of reported violations of sexual minorities in Nigeria between April 2017 to March 2018, with particular focus...
Apr 22, 20182 min read
Increase State Resource Allocation on HIV efforts: Lawyers Alert Tells the National Assembly at the
The Nigeria Budget Proposals, or better properly called “The 2018 Appropriation Bill” which encapsulates what and how the federal...
Mar 28, 20184 min read
Benue As a Metaphor for Official Mischief
by Lazarus Mom A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the day it is hatched. So goes a popular saying. Put in another way, an...
Mar 21, 20187 min read
Women and the Benue Killings
By Jerome Mary Uneje The sound of the whistle pierces through the quiet dark night in the neighbourhood of Ityo Gbenda, a suburb of...
Mar 9, 20186 min read
HUMAN RIGHTS, SECURITY AND THE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION
By Rommy Mom Esq, President, Lawyers Alert INTRODUCTION Institutionalized Government historically evolved from persons within a...
Feb 12, 20185 min read
Benue: Of Cattle Colonies, Ranching and Grazing Routes
By Rommy Mom Growing up on the Plateau, in the 80s, the yearly tradition was to see Herdsmen arrive on the rocky plains just before the...
Jan 14, 20184 min read
AMPLIFYCHANGE VISITS LAWYERS ALERT
A representative of AmplifyChange, Mr. Patrick MccLure paid a working visit to the Abuja Office of Lawyers Alert located at Area 11,...
Jan 4, 20181 min read
#StandUp4HumanRights
…..by Laz Mom “ Nigeria : Fifty Persons slaughtered in renewed clashes between Farmers and Herdsmen.’’ “ US : Boy 18, gunned down by...
Dec 11, 20175 min read
Benue Salary logjam: A Tale of Insincerity, Half Truths and the Rest of Us.
By Laz Mom Targema is fuming with anger. Ngodoo, his daughter, has been sent away from school owing to failure in payment of fees. His...
Oct 23, 20174 min read
Benue: When Floods Occur
By Laz Mom Floods occur in Benue routinely. Between the years 2000 and 2017, five cycles of flood have occurred with grievous effects....
Oct 15, 20174 min read
Suit to challenge termination of employment on account on HIV status: Activists and PLHIV identify w
The suit challenging the termination of Mr X by his employers on account of his HIV status came up a fortnight ago at the National...
Oct 6, 20172 min read
The Nigeria proposed Non-Governmental Organisations’ Regulation Bill
By Sunday Adaji…Legal Officer, Lawyers Alert. One of the most controversial Bills before the floor of the National Assembly (the...
Oct 2, 20177 min read
NIGERIA AND THE FAILURE OF DATA AND POPULATION FIGURES
By Jerome Uneje We are 150 million he shouted! No we are over 200 million! He shouts back! 150! No, 200 million plus where are you...
Sep 8, 20175 min read
Women and Non-passage of the 35% Affirmative Action Bill by Nigeria Parliamentarians
By Sunday Adaji Esq Context Wednesday the 26th of July 2017 will go down in history as the day Nigeria’s National Assembly (the country’s...
Aug 15, 20175 min read
WOMEN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ON THE PLATEAU: A RISING WARNING OCTAVE
By Jerome Uneje Bang! Bang!! Bang!!! Bot (not real name) keeps hitting on the door as he hollers her name in the still of the night....
Jul 20, 20174 min read
Lawyers Alert sensitize Journalists on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights
The training was organized by Lawyers Alert for journalists as part of a sensitization and advocacy drive within the media community. The...
Jul 16, 20175 min read
LAWYERS ALERT TO SUE NIGERIA ARMY OVER BENUE KILLING
Lawyers Alert has taken up the matter of the wrongful killing by the Nigerian Army of one Master Ipaven Paul AYEM, a JSS 3 student of...
Jun 1, 20172 min read
LAWYERS ALERT PRESS RELEASE. BENUE KILLINGS: BEYOND THE CONDEMNATIONS; MATTERS ARISING
Billows of smoke, lifeless bodies, charred cars and deserted streets best describe the scenarios in Buruku, Ukum, and, to a lesser...
Mar 25, 20176 min read
Nigeria Civil Society Advocacy Points on the 2017 Budget Proposals
*Ministries, Departments and Agencies5Create a health basket fund from bilateral and multilateral funding for the health sector within...
Feb 23, 20171 min read
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: INTERNATIONAL ZERO TOLERANCE DAY
Startled by this loud reverberation from her phone, Ms. Elizabeth Johnson (not real name) jumps out of bed, looked at her bedside clock...
Feb 14, 20175 min read
NIGERIA: MANDATORY HIV TESTING AND DISMISSAL OF AN EMPLOYEE ON THE BASIS OF HIV-STATUS
http://www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/cases/ongoing-cases/nigeria-mandatory-hiv-testing-and-dismissal-of-an-employee-on-the-basis...
Jan 17, 20171 min read
Reason to monitor Human Rights Abuses
By Sunday Adaji Esq One common denominator among human rights defenders is the passion to fight, protect, and defend the fundamental...
Jan 15, 20173 min read
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