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Stakeholders emphasize dialogue as a key strategy for effective conflict resolution.

Stakeholders on Tuesday decried the impact of inequality, social injustice and disinformation on peaceful co-existence and urged for renewed efforts to combat them. Speaking at the Ministry of Women...

FG implores the Adoption of ADR Technique in Conflict Resolution on Water

The Federal Government has implored the adoption of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) technique in conflict resolution on water management. The Acting Executive Director, Nigeria Integrated Water...

After 41 peacekeeping missions and 200,000 troops, Nigeria seeks UN Security Council

The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, has addressed the 79th United Nations General Assembly, emphasising Nigeria’s longstanding commitment to international peace and security. Speaking in New...

In Nigeria, judicial appointments have become network of corruption, by Chidi Odinkalu

“Fools at the top would cause damage to any system not to talk of the fragile institutions of a fledgling democracy.”—Charles Archibong, A Stranger in Their Midst: A Memoir, 97 (2021) IN the last week...

National Summit on Justice 2024 Adopts Revised National Policy on Justice

COMMUNIQUE OF THE NATIONAL SUMMIT ON JUSTICE 2024 Distinguished Colleagues, Recall that on April 24–25, 2024, the Federal Ministry of Justice, the National Judicial Council (NJC), and the...

North-east Nigeria: Ringing the alarm bell on the malnutrition crisis

About 700,000 of these children may suffer life-threatening severe acute malnutrition (SAM). “So how far away are we from a crisis? We are in the middle of a crisis. We need to be clear on that...

Opinion: Here is an agenda for the new Chief Justice of Nigeria,

Amid the greatest crisis of judicial authority since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on 23 August 2024 swore in an Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). For the...

Nigeria Signs Partnership Agreements with UK, Gets N589bn Support

Nigeria is to reap about N589 billion (£272.6 million) from eight partnership agreements it signed with the United Kingdom yesterday in Abuja. The programme implementation agreements signed by the...

UN Country Team visits Maiduguri, pledges more support for flood affected people

“I witnessed firsthand the devastation and untold hardship caused by the flooding, including the destruction of homes, businesses, and infrastructure.” – Fall The severe flash flooding in...