Xenophobia in South Africa: Re-enacting apartheid?
Racial killings and displacement of foreign nationals living in South Africa, including Nigeria, evoked international condemnation from countries and civil rights organisations, writes Senior...
World Health Day: Nigeria’s poor nutrition status in focus
The 2015 World Health Day with the theme ‘Food Safety’ held globally on April 7. In Nigeria, while coalition of rights groups marked the...
Presidential election: Mixed bag for INEC
In assessing the performance of the presidential and National Assembly elections conducted on March 28 by the INEC, it received kudos for good performance,...
NGOs and commitment towards credible elections
With the governorship and House of Assembly elections still ahead, various non-governmental organisations have put up programmes aimed at informing and sensitising the public...
Workshop identifies causes of grassroots corruption
In Nigeria and other African countries, corruption has generally been seen as the game of the elite. But a recent workshop organised by Socio-Economic...
Sanitation: Does restriction of movement constitute a breach?
Recently, a Lagos High Court pronounced a verdict that restriction of movement during monthly environmental sanitation exercise is unjustifiable and an infringement. But looking...
ESGN: Breaking the endometriosis silence
For an incurable disease that affects over 176 million women globally, one would expect that so much noise would be made in sensitisation. However,...
Echoes of 2015 International Women’s Day
Senior Correspondent, ONYEWUCHI OJINNAKA, captures some of the activities that heralded this year's International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 in Nigeria.
International Women’s...
Eradicating poverty and youth unemployment in Nigeria
On November 26, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly during its 24th session, adopted February 20 as the World Day of Social Justice. The...
We need special court for electoral offences – Ezike
Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) Executive Director,, in this interview with Senior Correspondent, ONYEWUCHI OJINNAKA, decries the use of military and shoddy preparations by INEC,...
