On Justice Rahila Cudjoe and AVM Usman Muazu reports, Kaduna govt got it wrong, claims Atyap group

By Sule Tinat Bodam, Secretary-General Atyap Community Development Association 1. On 29th June 2020, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser on Media and Communication to Governor Nasir Ahmad El Rurai, issued a statement informing the public that the Kaduna State Government had set up a White Paper Committee on 1992 Zangon Kataf Crisis. According to Adekeye, the main…

July 19, 2020276Comments

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People power and trust in the judiciary: How Malawi stood up for democracy

The Southern Africa Human Rights Roundup is a weekly column aimed at highlighting important human rights news in southern Africa. It integrates efforts of human rights defenders and facilitates evidence-based engagement with key stakeholders, and institutions on the human rights situation across the region. The roundup is a collaboration between the Southern Africa Human Rights…

July 10, 20200Comments

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Video: BBC Documentary on Nigeria’s Coronavirus Isolation Centres

July 10, 20200Comments

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Restructuring: Imperative of Political Will

The clamour for restructuring of the country requires political will to drive the process. However, due mainly to the divergence of perspectives on the concept, especially between the north and south divide; restructuring may take a long while or just never happen.Evidently, the country is stagnated if not retrogressing because of its current structure. A…

August 10, 2018613Comments

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Why No Women Should Be Left Behind From The Commission Of The Status Of Women (CSW)

From March 12th to 23rd 2018, thousands of women from every corner of the globe, braved the blizzards and cold in New York to be part of big decisions about rights of women and girls in rural areas. For two weeks, representatives of United Nations Member States, civil society organisations and United Nations agencies partook in the…

April 10, 20180Comments

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From Chibok to Dapchi: An end to this madness

It is cheering however that the Jama’atuNasril Islam (JNI), the Muslim umbrella body, had expressed deep concern over the abduction of the Dapchi school girls, insisting that the continuous abduction of school girls is a potent attempt to frustrate girl child education in Northern Nigeria. The organisation in a statement lamented that despite the many enrolment…

March 10, 2018120Comments

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Hate Speech Vs Freedom of Speech

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the society is dissolved and tyranny is erected on its ruins” Benjamin Franklin. Tension is rife in the country presently. The pro and anti-government advocates have doused themselves in a war of words that is gradually dovetailing into…

December 29, 20174Comments

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