The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ruled in favour of six women who were harassed and abused during raids by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), police and other law enforcement agents in April 2019. The six women, through a team of lawyers comprising of Deji Ajare, Mojirayo Ogunlana-Nkanga, Bamidele Jacobs, Jennifer Ogbogu, […]
Lawyer Alert said its findings and statistics from surveys and online SRHR monitoring tool have revealed how states have been reluctant to domesticate and enforce progressive SRHR laws passed by the National assembly
The NGO that partnered LA on the project include Cara Development Foundation, Ikra foundation for women and youth development, Debachanya Girl Child Empowerment Initiative, Eminent Empowerment & Inclusion Network.
Others are Centre for the Advocacy of Justice & Rights, Kehinde Orungbeja & Co, Lawyers Watch for Initiative International, Ibrahim Abdullahi & Co and Legal Awareness for Nigerian Women (LEADS Nigeria).
The memorandum was signed by Mr Bamidele A. Jacobs on behalf of Lawyers Alert and other NGOs.
Rommy Mom
I cannot pretend to be of the Innocent Chukwuma breed that fought the military junta from campus to activism with badges and relics of what that generation of activists suffered or went through in birthing democracy.
Fate had thrown me quickly into mingling with these icons faster than I would imagine. I had successfully challenged the electoral Body compelling it to conduct LG elections as against simply appointing LG Chairmen by state Governors. In a rare show of government compliance with court judgments, OBJ ordered for and released funds for local government elections.
At the next Annual General Meeting of the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, the Chair, Festus Okoye, applauded my courage as a fresh member and immediately helped facilitate my election into the Coordinating Council (Board) of the TMG.
Rommy Mom
I cannot pretend to be of the Innocent Chukwuma breed that fought the military junta from campus to activism with badges and relics of what that generation of activists suffered or went through in birthing democracy.
Fate had thrown me quickly into mingling with these icons faster than I would imagine. I had successfully challenged the electoral Body compelling it to conduct LG elections as against simply appointing LG Chairmen by state Governors. In a rare show of government compliance with court judgments, OBJ ordered for and released funds for local government elections.
At the next Annual General Meeting of the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, the Chair, Festus Okoye, applauded my courage as a fresh member and immediately helped facilitate my election into the Coordinating Council (Board) of the TMG.