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Country Profiles
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Nigeria
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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.
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