Month: August 2021

The advent of the  Fourth Republic had heralded hopes of transition to a democratic era of free speech, rule of law and respect for human rights. However, events unfolding thereafter have rather been one of an anti-climax. Between 1999 and 2015, several journalists were arrested and unlawfully detained by state agents. In 2001, Dayo Omotosho, […]

The Ugandan government said on Friday it had ordered 54 non-governmental organisations to suspend operations, a major escalation of its efforts to tighten control over civil society. The groups affected include the country’s most prominent rights organisation, Chapter Four, as well as religious, environmental and electoral democracy groups. The shutdown was ordered “with immediate effect”, the […]

Awka – A human rights group, the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre, RULAAC has blasted the Nigeria Police Force for Sunday’s statement where it claimed 22-year old girl, Gloria Okolie, spied on the Nigerian security agencies for the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The Police statement issued yesterday by the Public Relations Department of […]

  Under the banner of another collective action research, titled, The Security Playbook, 13 members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) converged in Lagos on July 1 to kick off the collaborative study on the rising misuse of digital technologies, counter-terrorism and national security laws to restrict the civic space in Nigeria. Amid the Twitter ban, […]