UN chief, Antonio Guterres The UN yesterday highlighted the need to defend women’s rights which were under threat, citing a reversal in hard-won progress, increasing violence against women and a growing digital gender divide. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said this at the opening of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of...
•Edison Ehie A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt today dismissed the preliminary objection by counsel to the Nigerian Police, Celestine Dickson, challenging the jurisdiction of the Court to hear the fundamental rights suit by the Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Hon. Edison Ehie against the police for lack of merit. The [&h...
•Akinlade Olutunji The National President of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, Akinlade Olutunji, has said that no state governor in Nigeria has the legal right to ban mining activities in their states. He said that the mining act is found in the executive list and under the control of the federal government, reports Daily […...
•Zainab Duke Abiola An Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu has ordered the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, to pay the sum of N50million to Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, for violating her fundamental rights. The court, in the judgement […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will appeal an N100m fine imposed on it by the Federal High Court, Abuja, over the violation of the rights of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele had instituted a fundamental human rights suit against the agency, the federal […]
The bloody legacy of past and present administrations has, over the years, presented the country as a killing field where no premium is placed on human life. The fact that little is done to remedy rights abuses and violations is simply troubling and soils the country’s image internationally. While state actors at different levels are […...
•Emefiele A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama has scheduled January 8 for judgment in the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele. Justice Olukayode Adeniyi chose the date after lawyers to the parties in the case made their final submissions. Justice ...