A Death or Death Situation: Covid-19 v. Extra-Judicial Killings by Daphne Onoja
It is no news that the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic has taken a great toll on humanity. The right to freedom of movement, right to peaceful assembly, right to dignity of human person and most of all, right to life has been put to great threat. The virus has affected a lot of
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Voluntary Retirement: The Nigerian Army’s Misconstrued Congectures
My attention has been recently drawn to a report by Premium Times, published on 5th of April 2020, and reported by other online news sites about an internal memo released by the echelons of the Nigerian Army to the effect that The Nigerian Army has suspended approvals for voluntary retirement requests from soldiers. Although the
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HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN A PANDEMIC
PROTECT PEOPLE IN CUSTODY AND IN INSTITUTIONS COVID-19, like other infectious diseases, poses a higher risk to populations that live in close proximity to each other for example in Ibadan or those who live in Batcher in Northern Nigeria no thanks to a poor urban and regional planning system in Nigeria. This disproportionately affects older
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Although sexual and gender-based violence is not uncommon in times of war or emergency as currently, we are fighting a war of survival from the virulent Covid-19 virus. The SGBV actors could be police or joint security forces engaged to enforce restriction orders by Federal and State Governments or it could be spouses who are
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A DETHRONED KING: LEGAL OR NOT?
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II was recently dethroned by the Kano State Government and this raised some legal and constitutional issues. The Emir was dethroned yesterday, 9th March 2020 and banished to Nasarawa state, where he will be exiled at the pleasure of the Kano State Government. The Emir arrived at his
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