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List Of Nigerian Human Rights Activists
There are several human right activists in Nigeria. This is a list of notable Nigerian human rights activists in a list. References {{Human rights in Nigeria * Nigerian activists Nigerian human rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeola Austin Oyinlade
Adeola Austin Oyinlade (born 6 August 1981) is a Nigerians, Nigerian human rights lawyer. Early life and education Adeola Austin Oyinlade was born on 6 August 1981 in Akure, Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria to the family of Elder and Mrs. Oyinlade. He obtained his undergraduate (LL.B) and postgraduate (LL.M- Master of Laws) degrees from University of Lagos. Career and legal practice Oyinlade is the Principal Partner of Adeola Oyinlade & Co; a law firm based in Lagos, Nigeria with practices in human rights, Intellectual Property, Commercial, Corporate and International Law. He worked for the African Union Commission (AU). He created "Know Your Rights Nigeria" initiative on radio (UNILAG FM) and founded 'Constitutional Rights Awareness and Liberty Initiative; a Non-Governmental organization. Public speaking In April 2011, Oyinlade addressed the plenary sessions of the African Union's Pre-AU Summit (African Youth Forum 2011) in Addis Ababa, Ethiop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femi Falana
Femi Falana, SAN (born 20 May 1958)In the town of Ilawe, Ekiti State He is a Nigerian lawyer and Human right activist.He is also the father to Folarin Falana popularly known as Falz. Femi Falana is a well-known activist for human rights, always trying to show sympathy towards people.Femi Falana is well known for opposing oppression, from successive military authorities. Education Femi Falana was a student of St. Michael’s School from 1963 to 1968. After finishing from this school, Femi Falana attended Sacred Heart Catholic Seminary from 1971 – 1975, He began his legal practice in 1982. After finishing his law practice in 2012, Femi Falana became a Senior Advocate in Nigeria he graduated from the University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife Osun State. He is a Principal Partner at Falana&Falana Chambers which he runs with Funmi Falana his wife. He contested and lost the governorship election of Ekiti State in 2007 on the platform of the National Conscience ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian Human Rights Activists
Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Baron Frederick Lugard, a British colonial administrator. ''Nigeria'' is composed of various ethnic groups and cultures and the term Nigerian refers to a citizenship-based civic nationality. Nigerians derive from over 250 ethnic groups and languages.Toyin Falola. ''Culture and Customs of Nigeria''. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 4. Though there are multiple ethnic groups in Nigeria, economic factors result in significant mobility of Nigerians of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds to reside in territories in Nigeria that are outside their ethnic or religious background, resulting in the mixing of the various ethnic and religious groups, especially in Nigeria's cities.Toyin Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Achapka
Priscilla Mbarumun Achakpa is a Nigerian environmental activist. She is the founder and Global President of the Women Environment Programme (WEP) that provides women with sustainable solutions to everyday problems. Just before that, she was the executive director of WEP. In Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Achakpa serves as the national coordinator for Nigeria. She is the chair of the board of the Abaagu Foundation for youth empowerment. In the United Nation Environmental Programme, she was elected as a co-facilitator. Early life and education Achakpa was married at age 16, became a mother of three children, and then her husband died, leaving her as a young widow. Her husband's family disinherited her and she enrolled in school earning degrees in Developmental Studies, Business Administration and Management, follows by postgraduate degrees in Management and Business Administration, and in Developmental Studies. She completed a Ph.D. from the University of Busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi
Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi is a Nigerian lawyer and civil rights activist. She is the founding Director oWomen Advocates Research and Documentation Center(WARDC), a non-governmental maternal and reproductive health advocacy organization which major objective is to promote women's rights, human rights, governance and rule of law. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi is an executive board member of West Africa Network for Peacebuilding and the Nigerian Women's Trust Fund. She teaches International Humanitarian Law at the University of Lagos. In 2016, She was elected the chairman oThe Monitoring Group(TMG), the coalition of 400 civil society organizations. Early life and education Akiyode-Afolabi was born in Kwara State but she grew up in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. She studied Law from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, where she started her journey in human right activism as the first female public relations officer. She earned her master's degree at the Notre Dame Law School, Indiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segun Awosanya
Segun Awosanya, known as Segalink, is a Nigerian realtor, human rights activist, and business consultant. Awosanya was one of the early organisers (advocates) of the campaign against police brutality in Nigeria using social media as a tool, while engaging authorities across arms of government with #EndSARS #ReformPoliceNG advocacy, which yielded results when the Buhari-led government of Nigeria announced a total overhaul of the department of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, popularly known as SARS. Career Awosanya is the founder and president of the Social Intervention Advocacy Foundation (SIAF). He is also the founder and executive director of ALIENSMEDIA (a futuristic brand regarding identity media, technology, and brand strategy consultancy). He has continued to freely educate and enlighten the public through Twitter, with successful direct intervention in bridging institutional gaps between the people and government institutions. Awosanya consults for several firms, governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonny Okosun
Sonny Okosun (1 January 1947 – 24 May 2008) was a Nigerian musician, who was known as the leader of the Ozzidi band. He named his band Ozzidi after a renowned Ijaw languages, Ijaw river god, but to Okosun the meaning was "there is a message". His surname is sometimes spelled Okosuns and his first name Sunny. He was one of the leading Nigerian musicians from the late 1970s to mid-1980s.''The Independent'', 24 June 2008Sonny Okosun obituary./ref> Okosun's brand of African pop music, Ozzidi, is a synthesis of Afro-beat, reggae and funk music. From 1977, he became known for protest songs about Pan-Africanism, freedom and a few other social and political issues affecting Africans. Early life As a young boy, Okosun spent his early childhood with his grandmother at Ibore, near Esan Central, Irrua in Edo State, thereafter, he moved to Enugu to live with his parents and where his father worked with the Nigerian Railway Corporation. Okosun attended various training schools starting wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omoyele Sowore
Omoyele "Yele" Sowore (born 16 February 1971) is a Nigerian human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner, known for founding the online news agency Sahara Reporters. In August 2018, he founded the African Action Congress party and ran as its presidential candidate in the 2019 Nigerian general election. Sowore is also running for president in the 2023 Nigerian general election. On 3 August 2019, Sowore was arrested by the Nigerian State Security Service (SSS) for alleged treason after calling for a protest tagged ''RevolutionNow''. He was arrested again and beaten during a protest in Abuja on 1 January 2021. Sowore was injured by a police officer during a protest in Abuja on 31 May 2021 Early life and education Yele Sowore is from Ese-Odo, Ondo State in South West Nigeria. Sowore was born in the Niger Delta region of the country (comprising six states in South-South region, Ondo, Abia and Imo States) where he was also raised in a polygamous home with sixteen childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olisa Agbakoba
Olisa Agbakoba is a Nigerian human rights activist, maritime lawyer and former President of Nigerian Bar Association. Early life Olisa Agbakoba was born on 29 May 1953 to Chief Justice Godfrey Ubaka and Mrs Phina Agbakoba in Jos. He later moved to Onitsha in 1965, two years before the Nigerian civil war. He attended Government Primary School, Jos from 1959 to 1960, Hillcrest School, Jos; 1961, Government Primary School Jos, 1962 1963; Zixton Public School Ozubulu in 1964 and Christ the King College, Onitsha between 1966 and 1967. Olisa Agbakoba also attended College of Immaculate Conception in Enugu from 1970 to 1972, Government College in Ughelli in 1973, University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 1973 to 1977, Nigerian Law School in Lagos in 1978 and London School of Economics & Political Science from 1979 to 1980. He holds an LLB (Hons) of the University of Nigeria, BL of the Nigerian Law School and LLM (1980) of the University of London. Early professional career Fresh out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (30 December 1927 – 1 June 2003) was a paediatrician, activist and health minister of Nigeria. Early life and education Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was born in Ijebu Ode on 30 December 1927, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria. His mother, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a prominent political campaigner and women's rights activist, and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. His brother Fela would grow up to be a popular musician and a founder of Afrobeat, while another brother, Beko, would become an internationally known physician and political activist. Ransome-Kuti attended Abeokuta Grammar School, University of Ibadan and Trinity College Dublin (1948–54). Career Ransome-Kuti was a house physician at General Hospital, Lagos. He was senior lecturer at the University of Lagos from 1967 to 1970 and appointed Director of child health at the Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola Oni
Ola Oni (1933–1999) was a Nigerian marxist political economist, socialist and human right activist. Early life The anti-military and pro-democracy, Ola Oni hails from Ekiti State southwestern Nigeria where he was born but based in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Nigeria. He was a lecturer at the University of Ibadan but was sacked due to his radicalism. Ebenezer Babatope's book, "Student Power in Nigeria" (1956-198), tells the life of Ola Oni. He died on December 22, 1999, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me .... After his demise, he was immortalized and a social research center, Comrade Ola Oni Centre For Social Research was named after him. Personal life He was married to Kehinde Ola Oni, a retired civil servant who is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiki Mordi
Nkiru "Kiki" Mordi is a Nigerian investigative journalist, filmmaker, writer and entrepreneur. She dropped out of school because she was harassed by a lecturer in her school. This ordeal was what led her to shoot the ''Sex for Grades'' video with the '' BBC Africa Eye''. The documentary exposed the depth of sexual harassment among Nigerians and Ghanaian lecturers. In 2016, she won the award of Outstanding Radio Program Presenter (South-South) at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards. Career Kiki Mordi is a Nigerian investigative journalist and on-air personality. She is known for the ''BBC Africa Eye'' program ''Sex for Grades'' documentary that amplified the voices of victims of sexual assault in tertiary institutions in Nigeria and Ghana. In 2017, Mordi started an online petition to stop the extortion and exploitation of youths by the Nigeria policemen. She launched this petition after her ordeal with some Nigerian policemen who invaded her home, arrested her and boyfriend and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
