By Usman Bukar Bwala THE Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 is in line with the criminal justice in Nigeria and S.162 of the Act has spelt out conditions for granting bail in serious criminal cases in Salami Ibrahim vs FRN supra as “A defendant charged with an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term […]

Top human rights activists and senior lawyers have called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to renew its interest in taking up cases that deepen people’s access to justice and protection of their socioeconomic economic rights as spelt out in the Nigerian constitution and other statutes. The lawyers spoke at a webinar conference organised by […]

THE Nigeria Army, Police and State Security Service continued to torture and ill-treat detainees throughout the year 2019.

Avocats Sans Frontières France (Lawyers Without Borders France), ASF France, has called on security agencies to exercise decorum and respect human rights in the discharge of their duty in maintaining law and order while enforcing the lockdown.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says gender inequality is the “overwhelming injustice of our age and the biggest human rights challenge we face”. Guterres made the assertion at an event organised by the UN in New York on Friday to commemorate the International Women’s Day 2020. He noted that gender equality is a question of power, […]