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For Kole Shettima and Amina Saliu on Their Special Anniversaries

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2020In: People in ActionTags: C4C, CBAAC, CISLAC, CITAD, CLO, DFID, HEDA, LASUNo CommentsViews:
For Kole Shettima and Amina Saliu on Their Special Anniversaries

By Tunde Akanni, PhD For my former colleague at Concord Press, now a young grandma, Patience Akpan, every child or grandchild of hers is her favourite. The scintillatingly beauteous and fash... Read more

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Does Nigeria Hang Women? Yes

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Amnesty International, CLO, Crime and Punishment, EU, Maryam Sanda, Transitional justiceNo CommentsViews:
Does Nigeria Hang Women? Yes

It must be that there have been extremely low cases of women in the sort of crime that attracts capital punishment. That can be the only explanation for why whether women are ever hanged or... Read more

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Maroon Square Debuts in Discourse Politics

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'China in Africa', 'China in Nigeria', CLO, Lagos State University - LASU, Maroon SquareNo CommentsViews:
Maroon Square Debuts in Discourse Politics

The online platform, Maroon Square, is putting together a fiesta of ideas March 21st and 22nd, 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria. Its publicity to that effect shows that it would first be engaging “Nig... Read more

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Nigerian Human Rights Community Storms Owerri

Posted By: adminon: September 04, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: CLO, Ekeukwu Owerre Market, Gov Rochas OkorochaNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Human Rights Community Storms Owerri

All human rights eyes are on Owerri, the capital of Nigeria’s southeast state of Imo which is scheduled to be the location of a gathering of the Nigerian Human Rights Community schedul... Read more

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Investigate Demolition of Ekeukwu Owerre Market, CLO Tells Nigeria’s Imo State Government

Posted By: adminon: August 26, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: CLO, Ekeukwu Owerre Market, Imo State GovernmentNo CommentsViews:
Investigate Demolition of Ekeukwu Owerre Market, CLO Tells Nigeria's Imo State Government

The Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) is demanding investigation into alleged use of troops to effect the demolition of Ekeukwu Owerre Market by the Imo State Government in eastern Nigeria.... Read more

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Radical Activists Have Abandoned Nigerians At the Political Sea, Says ‘Maradona’ (Part 1)

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2017In: GovernanceTags: ABU, Al Mustapha, CLO, Deradicalise, Kwara Poly, NANS, Radical Activists, State security, ZariaNo CommentsViews:
Radical Activists Have Abandoned Nigerians At the Political Sea, Says ‘Maradona’ (Part 1)

Radical Activists Have Abandoned Nigerians At the Political Sea, Says ‘Maradona’ (Part 1) His name sent jitters into the mind of vice-chancellors and the security establishment in those days... Read more

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