by Richard | Sep 3, 2025 | Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Nigeria, What We Do
Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), in partnership with the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative West Africa (PILIWA), is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of the ACA-PILIWA Moot Court Competition—open exclusively to law students from universities in...
by Richard | Aug 20, 2025 | Home Slider, Nigeria, Science, What We Do
When Paul Adjekota, a Science Fellow with Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), first visited Igbogidi in southern Nigeria, he noticed something alarming: boreholes drilled just a few feet from septic systems. Concerned about possible contamination, Paul shared...
by Richard | Jul 17, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Nigeria
A member of ACA’s Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA), Courage Nsirimovu, has initiated pro bono legal steps to retrieve a car for a Nigerian widow, Pleasure Amadi, whose husband passed away on August 28, 2022, after a short illness. Madam...
by Richard | Apr 24, 2024 | Home Slider, Nigeria
Two human rights groups, the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA) and PILEX Centre For Civic Education Initiative-The Peoples Advocates, are embarking on health, social and environmental impact assessment of unchecked pollution in three...
by Richard | Apr 22, 2024 | Home Slider, Nigeria
The College of Law, Caleb University, Lagos, is collaborating with the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA) to groom its students in the act of public interest lawyering. As part of the grooming process PILIWA will facilitate the process to...
by Richard | Dec 7, 2023 | Nigeria
With the help of Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), Nigerian lawyers are building new institutions that champion the fundamental human rights of West Africa’s poor and marginalized communities, especially those that are threatened by the destructive impacts...
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