FCT COURTS SENTENCING GUIDELINES
The issue of decongestion of our correctional centers has been on the burner in public discourse for a long time now. Many interventions have been made by the government in this regard, however, the focus on litigation and legal representation as a solution has proven ineffective. According to the provisions of Part 44 of the ACJA and S.40 to 44 of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act,...Read More 0
ASSESSMENT OF AMAC AND BWARI AREA COUNCILS’ SERVICE DELIVERY ON EDUCATION, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION
Service delivery in the Nigerian public service structure is complicated and has created concerns about services rendered to citizens by the local governments ( LGs ) as inaccessible and inadequate. Local governments or area councils, constitutionally created as the third tier of government (government at the grassroots) have become appendages of states’ government, leading to...Read More 0
PROMINENCE OF POLICE BRUTALITY AMONGST YOUTHS IN NIGERIA
This year alone, from January and October 2020 the number of force brutality incidents, and these include the Nigerian Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Nigeria Customer Service, stands at 88. About 116 people have been killed in these 88 incidents. Of the 88 incidents, at least 51% of cases (46) were attributed to police...Read More 1
ASEESSMENT AND SUMMARY OF GENDER IN THE JUDICIAL SECTOR OF NIGERIA
The aim of this assessment is to interrogate to what extent the legal, policy, practices, and institutional frameworks flowing from the UNSCR and the NAP have coalesced towards fulfilling their underlying principles. Anchoring its probe on the judiciary, this study examines the levels and quality of gender awareness, representation and participation, the extent of gender sensitivity,...Read More 0
REPORT AND SUMMARY OF GENDER ASSESSMENT OF THE SECURITY SECTOR IN NIGERIA
Despite the fact that women make almost half of the Nigerian population, they are largely excluded from governance processes, conflict management structures and peacebuilding mechanisms In recognition of the pivotal role that women play in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, Nigeria launched its first National Action Plan (NAP) in August 2013 to domesticate the United Nations Security...Read More 0
PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILDREN AGAINST SGBV IN KANO STATE
In recent times, Kano has been plagued with prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence cases. Although this is not an issue peculiar to Kano alone. From 2017 to 2020, the sexual assault referral center (SARC -WARAKA) in Kano has attended to 2158 cases of SGBV. These statistics reveal that 84.9 percent of children in Kano have faced one form of violence or another in their childhood. ...Read More 1
Training Manual for Divisional Station Officers, Crime Inspectors, Investigating Police Officers and prosecutors of the Plateau State Police Command on the Provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2018
PWAN has developed this “Training Manual for Divisional Stations Officers, Crime Inspectors, Investigating Police officers and Prosecutors” of Plateau State Police Command on ACJL 2018. The manual will assist officers of Plateau State Police Command and other states to improve their investigative and prosecutorial skills in the course of delivery of justice.DOWNLOADRead More 0
LAWS PROTECTING CHILDREN AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) IN KANO STATE
Some of the provisions in these laws protect the welfare, custody, adoption, and foster care of children. Others, prohibit hawking, trading, child labour, offences of GBV against children, custody of a child in remand home and educational structure of a child when a child commits an offence. DOWNLOADRead More 0
THE IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON NIGERIAN WOMEN
A rapid assessment of the impact of the lockdown on women across the country conducted by The Rule of Law and Empowerment Initiative also known as Partners West Africa Nigeria (PWAN), has revealed amongst other issues, that there has been an increase in reporting of sexual and gender-based violence related offences across the country since the lockdown began. The economy of the country has not...Read More 1
Police Accountability: A Comparative Analysis of Nigeria and the United States of America
#BlackLivesMatter and #NigerianLivesMatter Recent weeks saw protests across Africa, including in Nigeria, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement happening in the United States that later snowballed across major cities around the world. These protests have been matched with powerful government statements across Africa.; but while the killing of George Floyd, who died when a white...Read More 0