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17 Mar

Is the UK Really A ‘Force For Good’ In Nigeria?

By Ayo Adedoyin, CEO, PSJUK . This week the UK Government published it’s refreshed update of the ‘Integrated Review’ – a key policy peg outlining its core measures of both national security and overseas strategy. Within such, the UK’s approach to development, diplomacy, and defence are coordinated in a symbiotic and presumably more impactful way.  […]

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10 Mar

The Significance Of The Next Weeks For Nigeria Cannot Be Overstated

Nigeria’s Presidential and National Assembly elections took place on Saturday, 25th February. Four days later, on Wednesday 1st March Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling, All Progressives Congress (APC) was announced as president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Bola Tinubu won with 37% of the vote, followed by Atiku Abubakar collecting 29%, while […]

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2 Sep

Nigeria’s insecurity reaches Westminster Hall

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20 Jul

Can Nigeria dare to dream for a brighter future of religious freedom?

Pastor Ayo, CEO of peace organisation PSJ UK, shares highlights from their fringe events at the Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference, and his hopes for Nigeria Peace and Social Justice (PSJ UK) is an international non-profit organisation that seeks to promote peace building, social justice and sustainable development in Nigeria and other parts of […]

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20 Jul

Westminster Hall debate on Nigeria’s security crisis

Watch as the Members of Parliament gather in Westminster Hall, UK Parliament, to debate Nigeria’s Security Crisis after the launch of our report; Titled:- On The Brink?

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22 Jun

PSJUK – Electoral Act Amendment Bill & Democracy in Nigeria

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21 Jun

Kate Osamor MP — To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations officials in her Department have received from (a) organisations and (b) representatives of the Nigerian diaspora in the UK on the frequency of attacks taking place across Nigeria and potential solutions to bring about peace in the region.

Vicky Ford MP — Increasing insecurity across Nigeria is having a devastating impact on affected communities. We welcome views from both organisations and representatives of the Nigerian diaspora in the UK, including on peace-building efforts in Nigeria and the wider region. I [Minister Ford] regularly respond to correspondence from MPs on behalf of constituents who are members of the […]

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20 Jun

Baroness Cox — To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the joint report by the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust, International Organisation for Peacebuilding and Social Justice and Christian Solidarity International Breaking Point in Central Nigeria? Terror and Mass Displacement in the Middle Belt, published in March.

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park — We welcome this report and its recognition that the underlying drivers of violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are complex. The Minister for Africa visited Nigeria in February 2022 and raised rising insecurity and its impact on the Nigerian people in meetings with the Vice President, Foreign Minister and several […]

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20 Jun

USCIRF Delegation Travels to Nigeria to Assess Religious Freedom Conditions

USCIRF Delegation Travels to Nigeria to Assess Religious Freedom Conditions Washington, DC – United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Commissioner Frederick A. Davie along with USCIRF staff traveled to Abuja, Nigeria from June 4-11 to meet with Nigerian and U.S. government officials, religious communities, civil society representatives, and human rights defenders to assess religious freedom […]

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12 Jun

Impunity in Nigeria – Democracy Day should be renamed Deborah Day

Deborah Samuel – Stoned and Burnt to death by Schoolmates June 12 is Democracy Day in Nigeria, but this year it also happens to be the one-month anniversary since an angry mob of un-hooded classmates savagely hunted down Deborah Samuel, having accused her of blasphemy and proceeded to mete out a death sentence even though […]

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