In this interview with JULIANA FRANCIS, Mom speaks on how to encourage more women to participate in politics
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It focused on leadership skills, investigative reporting and mainstreaming girls and women as leaders and expert sources in news.
LA is assisting persons affected by TB in accessing free legal services in situations when their rights have been violated.
Peter Obi, their choice, is contesting on the platform of the Labour Party that, in political parlance, is said to be a party that currently has “no structures.” The term “structures” here is taken to mean physical party offices across the 774 LGAs in Nigeria; membership across the 774 LGAs in Nigeria; and a fair spread of elective office holders. These structures or machinery are deployed to ensure that the party has champions who can drive votes at the local level, protect these votes through party agents and sometimes use state resources and influence, even illegally, in swaying issues at critical times to favor the party. The question is whether the Labour Party with very little of all of this, can win a presidential election which translates to receiving a majority of the vote and over and 25 per cent of the vote in at least 24 of the 36 states.
The President of Lawyers Alert, Rommy Mom, noted that many people were no longer wearing face masks and that many have jettisoned other measures recommended to prevent the spread of the virus.
The police governing body, which said its high powered team was already in Edo State for the election, served the warning on the policemen in a statement on Thursday
Mom said the Police Service Commission is a creation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that its powers, mandate and what it can do or cannot do can only be carried out by constitutional amendment.
Lawyers in Nigeria have scaled up the push for the decriminalisation of petty offences in the country to curb unwarranted imprisonment of poor and indigent citizens over minor issues.
The main essence of justice in any sane society is to ensure a just and an equitable state, in which in some circumstances requires punishment for perpetrators of bad deeds to serve as deterrent to others to stay away from acts which if not treated would erode justice.
The President of Lawyers Alert Nigeria, Rommy Mom, has observed that criminalizing petty offences is an indication of inequality in justice delivery system in the country.
A human rights group under the aegis of Lawyers Alert’s Initiative for Protecting Rights of Children, Women and the Indigent has sued the Government of Borno State for demolishing people’s buildings without following the due process.
This was the thrust of a two-day reflection session organized by DFID/PERL through the Engage Citizen Pillar, which took place in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
In a letter to the Senate on the nomination, which was read at plenary by President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, Buhari also requested the confirmation of six other nominees as members of the commission.