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This was to translate into his agitating for and facilitating the creation of the Nigerian Legal Aid Association, alongside Chief Solomon Lar and Chief Debo Akande, which evolved into a full creature of Statute via the Legal Aid Decree 1977 (later the Legal Aid Act). [1]
He established a private legal practice, and was co-founder and first national secretary of the Nigerian Legal Aid Association. [ 4 ] In 1972, Lar joined the board of Amalgamated Tin Mines of Nigeria.
Funmi Falana [2] is the wife of Femi Falana, a Nigerian activist and lawyer; [3] and mother to Falz, a Nigerian recording artist and actor. [4] she attended St. Louis Girls’ Grammar School, Akure, Ondo State. [5] She obtained her bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Benin, and later bagged her law degree (LL.B) at the ...
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Nigerian Content Monitoring and Development Board (NCMDB) Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) - defunct [1] Rural Electrification Agency (REA)
After his call to Bar in 1985, Nwankwo went on to take part in Nigeria's one year mandatory National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) and was deployed to the Legal Aid Council as a Counsel, at Ijebu-Ode, Lagos (1985-1986). [2] Nwankwo is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association. He was the Executive Director and founder of Constitutional Rights ...
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Major Law Firm Helps "Nigerian" Scam Defraud Americans Two Baker Hostetler partners helped defraud nine investors of over $1 million in a ...
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 ...
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.