Press Statement The family of a Nigerian woman who died suddenly in Poland has decried the cremation of their daughter’s body by her polish husband without their permission and raised suspic... Read more
By Dan Bilefsky As boy bands go, it was an unlikely crew. In a five-minute video posted online this week, a band of seven aging Nigerian leaders — all but one of them retired — sang a New Ye... Read more
New York, December 29, 2016–Angolan authorities should immediately drop charges against two journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Rafael Marques de Morais, who... Read more
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA), a non-governmental organisation, says it will continue to support any initiative aimed at protecting whistle-blowers of corrupt practices. Mr. Edetaen Ojo, th... Read more
Leaders and sector commanders of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), a group of loosely organized vigilantes fighting the Islamist group, Boko Haram, have been lectured on Human Rights Edu... Read more
Press Release On or about 1900 hours of Tuesday the 20th day of December, 2016, our client, Mrs Comfort Baikie, a Superintendent of the Nigeria Customs Service, was accosted by five armed me... Read more
Job Title: Programme Officer Location: Lagos/Nigeria Date of Joining: February 2017 Reporting to: Centre Coordinator Job-Type: 2-year renewable contract About the Wole Soyinka Centre for Inv... Read more
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Mr. Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders over alleged “intimidation, har... Read more
Half a million conflict-affected children to benefit ABUJA, 16 December 2016 – The Government of Norway has donated $11.5 million, (approximately 3.6 billion Naira) to improve basic educati... Read more
Press Release The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Transparency International-Nigeria (TI) and Zero-corruption Coalition (ZCC) expresses concern at the circumstances surro... Read more
