The Keynote Address delivered by Professor Epiphany Azinge, SAN on March 13, 2021 at the Inauguration of the Centre of Immigration Law Studies, Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State, renamed Professor Epiphany Azinge Centre for Immigration Law and Policy in his honour. This Address is particularly pertinent today, in light of the influx of criminal aliens causing mayhem across the length and breadth of Nigeria. The first part of the Address, was featured last week. This is the second and concluding part
Immigration and Challenges of National Security
As earlier posited, our immigration Enactment did not provide for our extensive hand borders, and nothing offered for control measures and mechanism. The consequence of our porous borders and inadequate border control measures, is infiltration of migrants with arms and ammunition. Today, Nigeria’s challenges of insecurity are attributable to extensive porous borders across the country.
Conflict-Affected Children at Heightened Risk of Grave Violations due to COVID-19, as 2020 Marked OPAC’s 20th Anniversary
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The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated children’s vulnerability to grave violations in situations of armed conflict and restricted the realization of their rights, highlighted the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict in her annual report to the Human Rights Council, which covers the period from December 2019 to December 2020.
While children continued to suffer the consequences of atrocious wars, the response to the outbreak often had an unintended adverse impact on children’s fulfilment of their rights to education and health, as well as their access to justice, social services, and humanitarian aid. School closures made children even more vulnerable to other grave violations, in particular recruitment and use, and children in camps for internally displaced people and those deprived of their liberty have bee