The Port Harcourt Correctional Centre, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has commended the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) for its donation to inmates of the centre.The centre also expressed its...
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Jalingo advocates for improved funding of Correctional Centres in Nigeria
Journalist and human rights activist, Agba Jalingo has advocated for improved funding as part of reforms to overhaul Correctional Centres across Nigeria.Jalingo who himself spent six months as inmate at the Calabar...
Olympus Marino Deck Hosts Legal Roundtable, Advocates for Prompt Administration of Justice
Olympus Marino Legal Roundtable It is estimated that up to 75 percent of persons currently in Nigeria’s custodial facilities are awaiting trial. A large share of them have never had the privilege of appearing in a...
Before Anarchy Reigns in Nigeria
The National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, notes with deep concern the recent escalation of farmers/herders clashes and related insecurity in Oyo and Ondo States together with the killings that...
International Day of Education: Need for Increased Investment in Education
The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) joins the rest of the world in marking the International Day of Education. This year's commemoration, only the third since a United Nations resolution created...
Umalokun Massacre: An Unlawful Murder Among Many Past & Present that Blights the History of Nigerian Police
On December 27, 1983, men of the Nigeria Police Force in Ughelli, then in old Bendel State, shot six Nigerian youths dead in cold blood. The murdered Nigerian youths from different tertiary institutions, namely Kester...
The Kankara Pupils: An Abduction Too Many!
The recently reported abduction of more than 400 pupils of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara District, Katsina State, North West, Nigeria is distressful and of great concern for the welfare and wellbeing...
Rekindling Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Fight: Options for Fresh Strategy
PRESS RELEASE Corruption is often the difference between the flourishing wealth with stability of nations and the crippling poverty with prevalent entropy in others. It has a major impact on the effectiveness or...
International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020
Building Back Better Post COVID-19: Enhancing This Ability for All Disabilities, Visible and Invisible Creating and empowering equality and inclusivity ensures that we play our part to guarantee the rights of all...
Terrorists Massacre 43 Zabarmari Rice Farmers
PRESS RELEASE The news of the gruesome murder, by terrorists, of 43 farmers on rice fields at Zabarmari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State in North Eastern Nigeria, is shocking and saddening. Saturday's attack,...
Pyrates decry alarming violence against women, minors
...Urges NHRC to establish "dedicated" toll-free number to report cases The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Pyrates Confraternity, has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), particularly in Rivers...
International Day for The Elimination of Violence Against Women
PRESS RELEASE Today, the world observes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls. On the 20th of December 1993, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the declaration on the...