News Release: Malawi Takes Key Step To Advance Digital Payments And Drive Inclusive Growth

(Government, private sector, mobile operators and development organizations convene to establish a plan for the future)

News Release: A Critical Evaluation Of The Despicable Activities Of Red-Capped Igbo Natives In Nigeria

Igbo Chiefs on a recent visit to Buhari

A core foundation upon which International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law-Intersociety was founded in 2008 is for the recognition, respect, preservation and protection at all times of right to ethnic identity of all ethnic groups in Nigeria particularly the Igbo race. The right to ethnic identity under reference is such that must be recognized and respected during national elections, formulation and implementation of national policies and allocations of national political appointments. Our concept of right to ethnic identity, which is also in line with international standards; is the right of every ethnic nationality and citizen in Nigeria to live and prosper side by side with another member of Nigeria’s ethnic nationality and citizenship without emasculation and magisterial lordship. Nigeria’s present first class and second class citizenship is frowned at, at all times and must be fought to a stand-still.

News Release: Labour Party To APC; "Eschew Frivolities, Prepare For Governance"

The Labour Party has challenged the recent claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the Jonathan Administration is selling government properties and carrying out fresh recruitment into the civil service. This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the National Secretary of the party, Barrister Kayode Ajulo.

News Release: Out-going Governors & Democratic Accountability In Nigeria, Time For Stock Taking

The 2015 General Elections  with their supplementary segments; involving one Presidential, 29 Gubernatorial, 109 Senatorial, 360 House of Reps and 1,152 State Legislative polls, have come and gone. What lies on the table of the out-going governors and the Presidency is democratic accountability and stock taking. On 19^th April 2015, we (International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law) issued a public statement titled: “Revisiting & Institutionalizing Obinomics Governance Approach As A Standard Benchmark For New Governors In Nigeria”.  The Obinomics remains an indisputable standard of measurement for public governance accountability in Nigeria. It involves the beginning and end of a democratic governance process.

Speech: "A Progressive Government Must Turn Its Face From The Austerity Policies Of The Outgoing Administration"

Tinubu

(Being an address delivered By Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chancellor of  Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso on the occasion of the Institution’s 12th Convocation Ceremony.)

News Release: Campaign For Democracy Condemns Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

The Campaign for Democracy (CD) condemns the wave of anti-immigrant violence that has swept South Africa in recent days, leaving several dead, many wounded and property destroyed with authorities scrambling  to detain those responsible and prevent further bloodshed. 

Article: Politics Of Fuel Stares At Buhari

By SKC Ogbonnia

 

The politics of fuel ignited the downfall of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The politics of fuel will ultimately ignite the success or failure of the second coming of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

News Release: Media Falsehood & Propaganda On Rampage In Nigeria

By Section 22 of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999, with its last amendment in 2011; the press, radio, television and other agencies of the mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this Chapter (Two) and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the Government to the People. By Section 39 (1) of the same Constitution, every person shall be entitled to the freedom of expression including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference. By subsection 2, without prejudice to the generality of subsection 1 of this section, every person shall be entitled to own, establish and operate any medium for the dissemination of information, ideas and opinions. The Freedom of Information Act of the Federation of Nigeria 2011 is also derived from the two sections above particularly the latter.

News Release: Obinomics; A Standard Benchmark For New Governors In Nigeria

Governor Willie Obiano

It is the position of the leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law that the two pillars holding the democratic foundation in modern time particularly in Africa are laid on input and output legitimacies. When a governor emerges in an election through credible popular votes, his or her emergence becomes a product of input legitimacy. But if he or she emerges otherwise, his or her emergence becomes a product of mechanical legitimacy. Output legitimacy is the case when the input legitimate governor changes and upgrades the socio-economic conditions of his or her people and their environmental abode through innovative and creative governing styles.

U-Report: Colourful Procession To Commemorate Birth Anniversary Of Sayyedah Zahra (S) Held In Kano

Report By Stephen Lawan

Sisters Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky last Wednesday held a procession to commemorate birth anniversary of Sayyedah Fatimah al-Zahra (AS), Beloved daughter of the Holy Prophet (SAWA).

News Release: Brand South Africa Joins The Rest Of The Country In Condemning The Acts Of Violence

Brand South Africa joins the rest of the country in condemning the acts of violence that have been leveled against some foreign national residing in some of the nine provinces of South Africa.

News Release: Free Activist Samuelson Iwuoha Now

Activist Samuelson Iwuoha

Activist Samuelson Iwuoha is an Owerri based human rights activist who accused the Speaker of Imo House of Assembly , Rt Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu of corruption. He has been in the Imo State prison Owerri since June 3rd 2014 on the orders of the governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha and the Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly. He is a political prisoner. In Imo State of Nigeria, critics of Rochas Okorocha are facing harassment, victimization and oppression.

News Release: Labour Party Cautions General Buhari Over Chibok Girls and Other Campaign Promises

The Labour Party has warned the President-elect and his party, the All Progressives Congress not to take Nigerians for granted by backing down on their campaign promises, as the people are expectant of real change. This is contained in a statement issued in Lagos by the National scribe of the party. Barrister Kayode Ajulo.

News Release: New Research Reveals Wide Gap Between Perception And Reality Of Perimeter Security Effectiveness

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has today released the latest findings of the 2015 Data Security Confidence Index (DSCI). The report reveals a widening gap emerging between the perception and the reality of perimeter security effectiveness amongst global IT decision makers. The research shows increasing levels of investment in this area of data protection, despite an exponential growth in the number of data breaches. Investments in Breach Prevention Rise Despite Increased Breaches of Perimeter Security

Photonews: Abia State Governorship Election 2015 Alleged Offenders

News Release: Public Comment Blunders & Related Issues: Why Buhari Should Be Sent To The National Democratic Institute In The United States

Buhari

There is urgent need for the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to ferry and register its President-Elect, Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari for intensive training at the National Democratic Institute based in Massachusetts Avenue in Washington DC, USA or its equivalent elsewhere in overseas. This public call of ours is of uttermost public importance following blunders inherent in Mr. Buhari’s recent public comments following his presidential emergence in the highly divisive and ethnicized presidential poll. The President-Elect’s comments are also found to be highly ethnical, divisive, sectional, vindictive, undemocratic and unfriendly to rule of law and due process.  The totality of these is against the spirit and letters of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, which the President-Elect will swear to uphold, abide by and enforce at all times come 29^th May 2015.

Open Letter: A Call For Immediate Arrest & Prosecution Of Oba Rilwan Akiolu Of Lagos

Oba Akiolu Of Lagos

INTERSOC/SE/NG/01/04/015/ICC/Genocide/Int.

 

Mrs. Fatou Bensouda

Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC)

The ICC Headquarters, Maanweg, 174

2516 AB, The Hague, The Netherlands

 

Dear Prosecutor,

A Call For Immediate Arrest & Prosecution Of Oba Rilwan Akiolu Of Lagos, The Governor Of Lagos State & The Inspector General Of Police Of Nigeria For Commission, Aiding & Abetting Of Crime of Incitement To Genocide Against The Igbo Ethnic Group In Lagos State Of Nigeria

The leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law, Southeast Nigeria, humbly writes your locally and internationally respected office over the subject above referenced.

News Release: Campaign For Democracy Mourns Oronto Douglas

Oronto Douglas

The Campaign for Democracy (CD) mourns the death of renowned environmental campaigner, social crusader and Special Adviser to the President on Research and Documentation, Mr. Oronto Douglas. 

News Release: Labour Party Says Nigeria Is In Danger Of One-Party State

The Labour Party has expressed concern over what it describes as danger of the All Progressive Congress (APC) turning Nigeria into a one party state when it finally assumes power in May this year, especially in the face of a decimated and cowed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which is not prepared to play opposition politics. 

Article: Celebrating A Crime Hero

President Jonathan

 By Abdullahi Danladi

The outcome of the presidential election of 28th March, 2015 has put to rest the tenure of Good luck Jonathan’s administration. The five or six years of Jonathan’s government has been characterized by bloodshed, corruption and total disdain to the ethics of good governance.

News Release: Threats On Lagos Igbo Natives: Intersociety Rejects Proxy Apologies & Gives IGP 48Hrs To Investigate Oba Akiolu Or Be Dragged To ICC

Oba Akiolu of Lagos

Our organization has heard and studied the defensive and apologetic positions taken by the Lagos State Branch of the APC, Mr. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Mr. Femi Falana, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Mr. Patrick Utomi and other supporters and apologists of APC in Lagos State over the death threats issued against the Lagos Igbo Natives by the stranger-Oba of Lagos, Retired AIG Rilwan Akiolu. We are also in the know of a statement credited to the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman A. Abba at the NPF official function in Abuja on 7^th April 2015 to the effect that “Police cannot investigate Oba Akiolu because he has denied making the (genocidal) statement and that since the traditional ruler has denied the allegation, I am not in any position to state otherwise”.

Open Letter: Now That You Have Won: An Open Letter To President-Elect Buhari

Buhari

By SKC Ogbonnia

 

I am one of the millions of masses who yearned and prayed for the change that motivated you to democratic power. Though I have remained overjoyed with President Jonathan’s defeat and the meek manner of his concession, I am finding it difficult to celebrate your victory.

News Release: Labour Party Urges Buhari Not To Retrench Workers.

The Labour Party has said that the President-Elect of Nigeria, General Muhammad Buhari of APC will be making nonsense of its victory at the polls if he make any attempt to retrench workers as a means of saving cost or as fallout of reforms in the civil service.

News Release: How Ancient Igbos Co-Founded The Obaship Of Lagos

Oba Akiolu Of Lagos

It is vividly recalled that on 3^rd day of April 2015 we issued a public statement, titled: Political Trading In Nigeria: Time For Formidable & Credible Opposition. In the said statement, we condemned the spate of political harlotry and merchandising in Nigeria and called for respect and preservation of the rights and decisions of the electorates at the polling booths no matter political party affiliations. On 5^th April 2015, we issued another public statement, titled: From Polling Booths To Information Propaganda Warfare: Enemies Of Igbo Nation Are At It Again!. In the statement, we condemned the unprovoked massacre of over 5,000 sons and daughters of the Igbo Nation through politically sponsored Islamist insurgency in the core Northern Nigeria and the systematic and scientific way in which some ethnic zealots at INEC rigged out the Igbo and the minorities of Northern and Southern Nigeria during the just held Presidential Poll. We also frowned at coordinated information propaganda warfare being unleashed on Igbo Nation by the Southwest controlled print media over the massive rejection by the Southeast and the South-south zones at polling booths, of the APC and its candidates in the two zones during the referenced poll. The voting exercise of the referenced is popularly seen as a collective protest against the Party dominated by the core North and the Southwest over legion of atrocities committed against the Igbo Nation in recent times.

News Release: From Polling Booths To Information Propaganda Warfare: Enemies Of Igbo Nation Are At It Again

The leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law has observed with dismay and total disappointment over unleashing of another round of warfare against the Igbo nation in Nigeria. It is vividly recalled that the referenced Nation have on 28^th March 2015 voted massively for the out-going President & Commander-in –Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and his PDP. The massive Igbo votes came from sedentary Igbo natives (Igbo natives of home origin) and pastoralist Igbo natives (Igbo natives of outside residency). The massive Igbo votes would have been doubled or tripled but for systematic and scientific castration of their voting strengths by Prof Attahiru Jega’s INEC by way of denial of PVCs leading to exclusion of millions of their registered brothers and sisters from the voting. As if it was not enough, millions of them with PVCs were further denied voting by designed widespread Card Reader failure in polling booths particularly in most of over 15,000 polling units in the Southeast zone.

News Report: Nigeria's Oil Delta Quiet As Militants Weigh Options After Jonathan Defeat

Dokubo; Ex Niger Delta Militant

Credit: Reuters

The militant leaders who once wrought havoc in the Niger Delta oil industry have suddenly gone quiet following the defeat of Nigeria's incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, in an election this week.

Article: We Say Enough To The Government Of Thieves In Imo State

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State

By Kenneth Uwadi

It was normal news report in a popular Owerri based newspaper; the type we are used to seeing regularly, but would, most likely, merely glance through before turning our attention to more ‘important’ matters. But when I saw a particular report, confined to a small corner of the newspaper, something about it spoke a very clear message to my heart of what will happen in the Governorship election in Imo State. The newspaper has the heading, “Imo Speaker loses Senatorial election,” another headline said “ Rochas Okorocha furious over defeat”

News Release: Political Trading In Nigeria, Time For Formidable & Credible Opposition

Political Trading in Nigeria includes defecting from one political party to another for the purpose of material and other vested interests. It is also Political Trading when religious leaders or preachers turn their playing grounds into political Mecca and Jerusalem receiving, praying and prophesying for elected top political office holders such as president, vice president, governors, senate or deputy senate president, speaker or deputy speaker of federal and State legislative houses; for the purpose of getting bountiful cuts and contracts from the government coffers; without putting electoral, governance or legislative illegitimacy of the referenced elected politicians into account.

News Release: World Health Day: GM Crops Are “False Miracles,” Warn Global Experts

With 'Food Safety' being the theme of this year’s World Health Day on April 7, 37 laureates of the Right Livelihood Award from across the world have endorsed a declaration on the future of nutrition, denouncing Golden Rice and Genetically Modified Bananas as 'false miracles' to achieving food security. Golden Rice is a genetically engineered rice variety offered by GM proponents as a cure for Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD), while GM bananas are proposed to compensate for a lack of Vitamin A and iron.  

News Release: Equatorial Guinea Ratifies New Exxonmobil Exploration Agreement

(Block EG-06 is located offshore Bioko Island, adjacent to the international border with Nigeria)

The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy of Equatorial Guinea (http://www.equatorialoil.com) is pleased to announce the Ratification of Production Sharing Contract for Block EG-06 by the government of Equatorial Guinea. The contract was signed on January 16, 2015 between ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Equatorial Guinea (Offshore) Limited, GEPetrol and the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, represented by the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy.

News Release: 2015 Presidential Election Outcome: Other Than Threat Of Violence, Asari Dokubo Has Said It All

Asari Dokubo

The 2015 Presidential Poll in Nigeria may have papery come and gone, but the wounds inflicted on different ethnic nationalities by masqueraded ethno-religious zealots wearing the gown of unbiased electoral umpire can never heal in a hurry. If extreme care is not taken, the wounds can transform into triggers, which in turn, can snowball into a new generational militancy and insurgency in the country including its oil rich zone. The injured and wounded ethnic nationalities remain the minorities of the Southern Nigeria, the minorities of the Northern Nigeria popularly called the Middle-Belt; the Christian minorities of the North, the pastoralist Igbos and  the pastoralist minorities or Igbos and Southern minorities of the Southwest and the  Northern residency; and the Igbo nation. Below is the public statement issued on 1^st April 2015 by Mr. Asari Dokubo of the suspended Niger Delta Volunteers Force, on behalf of the Southern Minorities Self Determination Groups popularly called Niger Delta Militants. It is important to point out here that we are not a party to violence or insurrection in Nigeria or any part thereof, but fundamental issues Mr. Asari Dokubo raised other than threat of insurrection or violence, are very appealing to us.

News Release: Intersociety Dedicates Presidential & NASS Polls’ Security Success To Armed Forces & Southern Voters

We humbly wish to dedicate the security and safety of Nigeria and Nigerians so far following the conduct of the 28^th March 2015 Presidential and NASS polls to the gallantry of the armed forces of Nigeria including the National Intelligence Agency and the Department of State Security Service. Our hope is that triggers capable of causing post election violence will remain bottled following the final announcement and declaration of results, their winners and losers.

News Release: MEND Congratulates Buhari

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) extends our heartfelt congratulations to President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari on his victory in the 2015 presidential elections.