Law & Human Rights

Protection, Not Prosecution: Why Nigeria must decriminalise attempted suicide

By Angela Uwandu Uzoma-Iwuchukwu The National Suicide Prevention Bill, 2026 offers the Senate an opportunity to align Nigerian law with its human rights obligations and with the evidence on suicide prevention. That opportunity should not be lost. On 13 October 2026, the Senate passed the National Suicide Prevention Bill, 2026 (SB. 730) on second reading. […]
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Most judges appointed are neither prepared nor mentally equipped – Azinge

Prof. Epiphany Azinge, SAN is the Director-General Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The institute is the apex body for legal training in the country. Recently the institute decided to mount a specialized judicial track training programme for lawyers desiring to seek appointment to the bench.

Implementing Lagos State special people’s law

As part of measures to achieve the implementation of Lagos State Special People’s Law 2011, Persons With Disabilities, PWD, has stressed the need to isolate and identify the various relevant stakeholders involved towards the implementation of the law.

Wanted: A new constitution for Nigeria (2)

There is the National Assembly Act, the Nigeria Police Act, the Electoral Act; and where there is no Act or law now in place on any subject contained in any of the four offending chapters of the Constitution, the National Assembly or State Assembly concerned can enact one.

20 years after Ejigbo crash: Falana vows to fight for victims’ widows

Twenty years after some military officers lost their lives in the Nigerian Air Force C130 Hercule that crashed in a swamp, in Ejigbo, Lagos, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, a rights activist, has assured their widows of his readiness to use instrument of law to fight their course.

Counsel corner: Motorcyclist ‘raped’ by HIV ladies

With Dayo Benson There is a case of two ladies who boarded a commercial motorbike and when they got to a lonely spot they forced the bike to stop and forced the rider to have sex with them in-turn at gun point. They   were aware that they were HIV positive, how will the case  be […]

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