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Legal Aid Council, Nigeria was established to provide legal services and access to justice to poor and marginalized Nigerians whose rights have been breached and who cannot afford the services of legal practitioners or who do not have the financial means to seek redress through the judicial system.
Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACoN) National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) National Boundary Commission; National Council of Arts and Culture (NCAC) National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND) National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
Access to Justice (AJ) is a Nigeria-focused human rights organization based in Lagos.According to their website, "it is a justice advocacy group working to defend the rights of equal and non-discriminatory access to courts of law, expand access of marginalized people to equal and impartial justice, attack corruption in justice administration, support legal struggles for human dignity and ...
He later proceeded to Nigerian Law School for advanced legal training. He was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2007. Opeoluwa worked as staff attorney with Nigerian Legal Aid Council. He later moved to United States to further his legal career and attended Howard University School of Law ...
Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the current constitution of 1999. [1] While Nigeria has made major improvements in human rights under this constitution, the American Human Rights Report of 2012 notes several areas where more improvement is needed, which includes: [2] abuses by Boko Haram, killings by government forces, lack of social equality and issues with freedom of speech.
Muiz Adeyemi Banire (born 6 October 1966) is a Nigerian lawyer and activist. Banire formed the United Action For Change which serves as a pressure group and think tank with the drive to build a society where people are valued and treated equally, enjoy their rights as full citizens.
In 2015, the World Bank selected JCLA and Abdel Aziz to provide the Nigerian government with technical support in which she engaged with a series of legal aid capacity-building and quality assurance workshops in Nigeria. [27] [21] [28]
Danjuma undertook her national service in the NYSC as a State Counsel with the Ministry of Justice of Lagos State, and was a legal counsel to the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria. She worked as an Executive Assistant at Nigerian Acceptances Limited (NAL), [3] a Merchant Bank, from 1977 to 1978.