…..by Laz Mom “ Nigeria : Fifty Persons slaughtered in renewed clashes between Farmers and Herdsmen.’’ “ US : Boy 18, gunned down by...

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...

By Laz Mom Floods occur in Benue routinely. Between the years 2000 and 2017, five cycles of flood have occurred with grievous effects....

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...

By Sunday Adaji…Legal Officer, Lawyers Alert. One of the most controversial Bills before the floor of the National Assembly (the...

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...

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...

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....

The training was organized by Lawyers Alert for journalists as part of a sensitization and advocacy drive within the media community. The...

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...

Billows of smoke, lifeless bodies, charred cars and deserted streets best describe the scenarios in Buruku, Ukum, and, to a lesser...

*Ministries, Departments and Agencies5Create a health basket fund from bilateral and multilateral funding for the health sector within...

Startled by this loud reverberation from her phone, Ms. Elizabeth Johnson (not real name) jumps out of bed, looked at her bedside clock...

http://www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/cases/ongoing-cases/nigeria-mandatory-hiv-testing-and-dismissal-of-an-employee-on-the-basis...

By Sunday Adaji Esq One common denominator among human rights defenders is the passion to fight, protect, and defend the fundamental...

Lawyers Alert with the kind assistance of  AmplifyChange has developed a Documentation of sexual and reproductive health rights violation...

By Roseline Oghnebrume Lawyers Alert in partnership with UNAIDS Nigeria, brought together human rights lawyers under the auspices of...

By Jerome Uneje. It’s a hot Monday afternoon, sun is high up in the sky, temperature in the city of Makurdi is as high as the afternoon...

Governor Al Makura By Jerome Uneje Mary So much has been written and heard concerning this issue in both the social and mainstream media....

BY ROMMY MOM Beginnings of Boko Haram It is widely believed that the movement started out as a pious and strict way of Islam intended to...

Written by Yinka Adegoke For some Nigerians, there’s an inevitable feeling of deja-vu about their country’s former petroleum minister,...

A PAPER PRESENTED BY THE FORMER MINISTER OF LANDS, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, RT. HON. NDUESE ESSIEN, TO MEMBERS OF THE NIGERIA UNION...

Civil society groups and the media have called on the Nigerian government to impose stiffer punishment on multinational oil firms, which...

PREAMBLE This paper is not an academic discourse, it is basically to tease out the content of the law, its genesis and also an attempt at...