The humanism of Ali Mazrui: His journey to the vision of openness
By Horace G. Campbell Ali A. Mazrui the great humanist joined the ancestors on Sunday, 12 October, 2014 in Binghamton, New York, where he...
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Oct 23, 20142 min read
LAWYERS ALERT PRESENTS REPORT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY DANGOTE CEMENT COMPANY GBOKO TO NATIONAL
Lawyers Alert, LA, recently visited and met with the management of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, in Abuja over the...
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Jul 22, 20144 min read
IMPEACHMENT OF ADAMAWA STATE GOVERNOR: ATTACK ON CONSTITUTIONALISM/LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
Being a Press Release by the Doing Democracy Movement, DDM. DDM have received with utter shock the untenable display of might as right,...
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Jul 21, 20144 min read
Nigeria national Confab: Another Lost Opportunity?
Aniebo Nwamu Those who, from the outset, described the National Conference as a jamboree must be laughing by now. In its last days,...
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Jul 20, 20143 min read
BENUE FLOOD VICTIMS COMPENSATION STRUGGLE: A TIME-LINE
It started mildly, before one could realize, it had gone beyond proportions. The waters of River Benue had over flown it’s banks into...
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Jul 4, 20146 min read
FG sets up NGOs to counter opposition —Mom
Rommy Mom The President of Lawyers Alert, Rommy Mom, represents the civil society at the ongoing national conference. He once stood on a...
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Jun 19, 20142 min read
Who rules the Internet?
To many, the internet is a ‘no man’s land’ with different association exercising varying control over the web space; the United States...
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Jun 13, 20143 min read
Islam and feminism: A battle of viewpoints
This article was posted on March 25, 2014 at indexoncensorship.org By Morgan Meaker This month, British charity Maslaha launched the...
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Jun 5, 20145 min read
Africa: GDP Is Macho and Keeps Women Poor
By Alice Kanengoni, 22 May 2014 First published in Allafrica For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used the world over as...
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Jun 3, 20143 min read
On Ban of #BringBackOurGirls Protest in Abuja: A Response
The beauty and glory of any democracy lies in the ability of the people to voice dissent–Free expression. In fact, the cardinal pillars...
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Jun 2, 20142 min read
A Girl With A Book
“Soldiers are not what frightens Shekau and his gang, Boko Haram. What frightens them is a girl with a book” – Laurent Duvillier It’s...
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Jun 1, 20144 min read
BENUE: OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS TEACHERS, STRIKES AND WAGES
By Rommy Mom That Primary Schools in Benue have been closed owing to industrial actions by teachers for nearly 7 months is no news. What...
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Jun 1, 20142 min read
Rommy Mom: Nigeria’s gay marriage law is misleading and harmful
By Alice Kirkland The wording of Nigeria’s recent anti-gay marriage law is misleading and has provoked a spike in hate crime towards the...
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May 22, 20141 min read
Index On Censorship and Lawyers Alert Echo the Campaign
Staff of Index on Censorship and Rommy Mom Esq of Lawyers Alert give voice to the Campaign #BringBackOurGirls #Chibok
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May 15, 20142 min read
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark Statement on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
May 17 2014 The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia provides an opportunity to reaffirm that the rights of LGBT people...
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May 15, 20144 min read
OUR WOMEN ARE MARCHING
Following the abduction of the nearly 300 School girls at Chibok by Boko Haram and their lily livered Shecow, sorry Shekau, women largely...
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May 9, 20145 min read
Tackling the Insurgency
by Eze Onyekpere Nigeria is under siege; the people are distraught and hope seems to be a scarce commodity in the land. No arm of...
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May 9, 20142 min read
Who is Shekau?
The below posting has practically no relation to the law and articles on Lawyers Alert Blog. However, with the definition of politics,...
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May 4, 20143 min read
CHIBOK, EDUCATION AND NIGERIA
The recent abduction of over 234 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State during their S.S.C.E Exams by...
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May 4, 20147 min read
Subject confab’s outcome to referendum –Mom
Courtesy Punch Newspapers of 3rd May 2014 Mom | credits: File copy Rommy Mom, a legal practitioner is a civil rights activist and a...
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May 4, 20146 min read
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE: PARTICIPATION TO WHAT END
……Rommy Mom When I was informed of my membership of the National Conference, alias Confab, two thoughts hit me: the constitutionality of...
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Apr 27, 20143 min read
WORLD HAPPINESS DAY 2014 – SUFFERING & SMILLING
Sometime weeks ago, precisely on 20th March 2014 the World marked Happiness Day: a day set aside by the United Nations to celebrate...
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Apr 25, 201412 min read
How Nigeria Courts frustrate corruption cases
Femi Falana (SAN) in this paper he presented at the 2014 Law Week of the Aba Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abia State...
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