Members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Kano State chapter, have called for the establishment of special courts to adjudicate family matters. The female lawyers explained that the creation of special courts on family matters has become exigent given the slow pace of trials of sexual related cases as well as cases associated ...

The new National Executive Committee of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) yesterday stated that the group was planning to build a modern shelter for victims of gender-based violence in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Speaking in Abuja at the weekend, Country President of the group, Mrs Amina Agbaje, who also doubles as International ...

The International Federation of Women Lawyers said it has successfully foiled an attempt to traffic and sell a set of twins at the Ndoki axis of old Port Harcourt town. FIDA’s chairperson in the state, Adata Bio-Briggs, who disclosed this in Port Harcourt, said the rescue followed a complaint by the mother that a prophetess ...

International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria, Kogi State branch, is seeking a legal framework to back women’s participation in the country’s politics. The chairperson, Lilian Okolo, disclosed this in Lokoja, at a town hall meeting organised to mark the International Women’s Day (IWD) with the theme ‘Gender Equality Today For A Sustainable Tomorrow’. While ...

A woman and her two children who had been undergoing domestic abuse at the hands of her husband in Nairobi’s Umoja estate have been rescued. The rescue followed the intervention of Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) who obtained a court order to protect the woman and her children from the abuse. A statement by FIDA ...

The International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, Rivers branch has raised alarm over rising cases of defilement pf of pupils and students of primary and secondary schools in the state by teachers, proprietors and minders. FIDA Chairperson in Rivers, Adata Bio-Briggs and publicity secretary Sophia Afolayan in a joint press statement regretted that people who ...

Twenty-two children believed to be from South-Eastern states of Anambra, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi have been rescued from suspected child traffickers in oil rich city of Warri, Delta State. The victims were allegedly being exploited through street begging by the seven suspected women who allegedly faked blindness while in Warri. Officials of the state Ministry ...

The Rivers State chapter of the International Federation of Female Lawyers has called for the abolition of Female Genital Mutilation especially in some communities in the Abua-Odual Local Government Area of the state. FIDA State Chairperson, Adata Bio-Briggs, who spoke during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation and sensitization campaign at ...

The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Nigeria has applauded the recommendation of the Joint Senate and House Committees on Constitution Review on the reservation of more legislative seats for women in the national and state houses of assembly. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Christiana Adejumo, on Tuesday, FIDA noted that ...

The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) yesterday appealed to the Kano State Government to hasten domestication of Child Rights Act and Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act. The Chairperson of FIDA in Kano, Ms Bilkisu Suleiman, said domestication of the act, after been infused with the State Sharia Laws, would assist to reduce cases of ...

International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria has condemned in strong terms, the torture and death of Sylvester Oromoni Jr, the twelve-year-old boy of Dowen College, Lagos. It also condoled with the family over this great and unfortunate loss of a young child with great promise for a bright future. FIDA which also called for ...

The International Federation of Women lawyers has called for establishment of special court to try cases of gender-based violence. The call was made by the chairperson of the FIDA, Ebonyi State Chapter, Grace Chima, on Saturday in Abakaliki. She spoke with newsmen as part of events marking this years 16 days of activism. Chima enjoined ...

FIDA Nigeria has raised alarm over the rising cases of Gender Based Violence, calling on stakeholders to collaborate and develop implementation emergency response plans to address the ills in the society. This is also as FIDA Nigeria said it had greatly stepped up her intervention efforts at curbing the high rate of GBV, especially during ...

GOODWILL MESSAGE FROM Y. C. MAIKYAU, SAN, TO FIDA NIGERIA ON HER 2021 CONFERENCE/AGM HOLDING IN ABUJA FROM THE 24TH TO 29TH OF NOVEMBER, 2021.

The Internal Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria, Kogi State branch has restated her commitment to raising the standard of women and children’s rights and implementation of women empowerment so as to cater for their families particularly the children. The Chairperson of FIDA, Kogi State branch, Mrs Lilian Okolo, gave the assurance at the opening ...

"FIDA Nigeria condemns in totality the recent bombardment and invasion of the privacy of Hon Justice Mary Odili, JSC at her premises in Abuja by persons identified as EFCC operatives and other security operatives working under the guise of carrying out an ‘investigation’."