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The second wave of COVID-19 has been adjudged by experts to be deadlier, but shockingly the police in Lagos State are flouting the Coronavirus protocols, thereby endangering their lives and those of detainees. In this report, JULIANA FRANCIS looks at how police and the Nigeria Correctional Service breach COVID-19 guidelines with arbitrary arrests and frivolous demands for tests Stakeholders on criminal justice system A human rights...

The second wave of COVID-19 has been adjudged by experts to be deadlier, but shockingly the police in Lagos State are flouting the Coronavirus protocols, to endanger their lives and those of the detainees. In this report, JULIANA FRANCIS looks at how police and the Nigeria Correctional Service breach COVID-19 guidelines with arbitrary arrests and frivolous demands for tests In the beginning Nigeria had its COVID-19...

https://soundcloud.com/joke-fayemi/covid-19-kaduna-idps-and-the-challenge-of-water-and-sanitation Stories about internally displaced persons anywhere in the world are usually ones that elicit empathy. These vulnerable individuals are forced to leave their comfort zones to environments where they become total strangers. IDPs, especially in Nigeria, struggle for basic things of life like food and shelter. Oftentimes, they are at the mercy of both local and international non-governmental organizations who provide them with relief...

Mr. and Mrs. Adesoye, a Visually Impaired couple with four children in Modakeke-Ife narrated the affliction that befell their family during the lockdown with barely anything to survive on. The wife, Mrs. Comfort Adesoye who wasn’t working before the lockdown explained how she was filled with suicidal thoughts as a result of her failure to provide for the needs of her family. “There were days we...

During the COVID-19 lockdown that lasted for over five months in Nigeria, a lot of Nigerians particularly the vulnerable were unable to access health centres. The ICIR’s NIYI OYEDEJI reports on how people living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) battled for survival during the lockdown. ON April 16, 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria, pregnant Hauwah Abdulkareem, 34, a resident of Ilorin,...