The organisers of the Freedom Rally which took place on the 23rd of December 2019 at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) offices in Lagos and Abuja in response to the 14 days ultimatum given to the Federal Government of Nigeria welcome the release of Omoyele Sowore and Sambo Dasuki on the 24th of December 2019.
The Office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation has reviewed the pending criminal charges against the duo of Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and Omoyele Sowore. Whilst the Federal High Court has exercised its discretion in granting bail to th ...
Tony Ojukwu, Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dear Sir, Two weeks ago, over 200 civil society organisations, representing a cross-section of Nigerians that have played various roles in Nigeria's journey to civil rule, gav ...
There is a sense in which we cannot successfully fight mega unless we make sense of petty corruption such as extortion. On Friday, I travelled from Yola, Adamawa State to Azare in Bauchi State. About five kilometres after Numan from Yola, there was a mili ...
“US universities treat Nigerian English as a foreign language. The Oscars say it is not foreign enough”. As a linguist and former teacher of English, I have always wondered why Nigerian English has never been deemed official by law and recognised, in i ...
(Being the paper presented at the 2019 Human Rights Day symposium organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (Ikeja Branch) on December 10, 2019). Introduction At the 30th anniversary ceremony of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights which he ...
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Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, December 5th, ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to release Omoyele Sowore, within 24 hours and also awarded a N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) fine against the DSS over ...
This is very important. We already have enough laws covering falsehood in speech - slander, defamation, libel - and a Cybercrime Act that is heavy-handed as it is. Disingenuous to speak of developed countries; they, in addition to existing laws, hold plat ...
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