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Nigeria
| Capital
: Abuja
Land
Area : 923,768 sq km
Head
of Government : President Olusegun Obasanjo (since 29
May 1999)
Population
: 128,771,988 (July 2005 est.)
Major
Languages : English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo
(Ibo), Fulani
Major
Religion(s) : Muslim 50%, Christian
40%, indigenous beliefs 10%
Date
of Joining : 1960
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CHRI Submission to CMAG :
April 1999
February
1998
Fact
Finding Mission
Articles
from CHRI Newsletter:
- HIV/AIDS
policy will protect workers,
CHRI Newsletter, Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2005.
- Abuja's
CHOGM: the word on the street, CHRI Newsletter, Volume
11, Number 2, Spring 2004.
- My
Abuja experience…, Annie Watson, Chair, Trustee
Committee CHRI, CHRI Newsletter, Volume 11, Number 2,
Spring 2004.
- Participation
for all?, Jo Offer, Head of the Human Rights Desk
with Radio Nigeria's Network News Division, Federal Radio
Corporation of Nigeria, CHRI Newsletter, Volume 11, Number
2, Spring 2004.
Articles
from RTI Updates:
- Political
Conference Committee Proposes Constitutional Guarantee
of Access to Information, May 2005.
- FOI
Bill Receives Massive Support at Senate Public Hearing,
26 April 2005.
- Freedom
of Information Bill Scales Second Reading in the Senate,
Media Rights Agenda, 22 February 2005.
- Public
Hearing on Freedom of Information Bill Postponed to April
12, Media Rights Agenda, 23 March 2005.
- Letter
to the Senator, Re: Submission to Senate Committee on
Information recommending improvements to the Freedom of
Information Bill 2004, CHRI, 14 March 2005.
- A
Battle Editors Must Win, Newswatch, 19 July 2004.
- Update
On The Status Of The Nigerian Freedom Of Information Bill,
Excerpt from an email from the FOI Coalition Nigeria,
11 November 2003.
News
Updates from Prison Reforms:
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