Concerned Nigerians is a non-profit, Non-Partisan social change movement dedicated to the advancement of democratic governance, human rights, accountability and rule of law in Nigeria.
Concerned Nigerians work to promote Human rights, citizen’s Participation in governance, Transparency and accountability in government.
To provide a platform for accelerating social change by training and empowering citizens to lead change in their community and uniting hundreds of thousands of voices and partners under a single positive identity that challenges the social norms that stunt Nigeria’s growth and entrench rule of Law.
To help build a Nigeria where everyone will have an equal opportunity regardless of gender, ethnic or religious background.
On the International Day of the Girl Child, we are confronted, as a nation and citizens, more than before the challenges facing the Nigerian girl child. Nigeria has 13.2 million out-of-school children of which the girl-child accounts for 60 percent of this figure. Many girls are still held hostage by the Boko Haram terrorist group, […]
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Mr. Adeyanju stated that “because of the strategic position of Nigeria, such news should be treated with every sense of urgency and necessity as if it were a serious national issue.” The health authorities in Uganda have declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the Sudan ebolavirus was confirmed in Mubende district in […]
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The convener of Concerned Nigerians, Mr. Deji Adeyanju, has once again appealed to President Buhari to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, who has been held in prison by the federal government as his trial lingers. Recall that Kanu was apprehended in Kenya on Sunday, June 27th, […]
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INTRODUCTION Generally, human rights are deemed almost sacrosanct in most part of the world where democratic tenets are upheld, and this is why they have universal appeal. However, there are certain instances where these rights have been restricted or suspended in Nigeria. These instances range from war, state of the emergency, coup, outbreak of pandemics, […]
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Pro-democracy and Human Rights group, Concerned Nigerians, has condemned the deportation of ‘Street beggars’ popular known as the Almajiris over the widespread of the Coronavirus pandemic. The group in a statement made available in Abuja, the Nation’s capital, described the deportation as an ill-thought-out, inhumane, callous and gross abuse of the fundamental rights of the […]
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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has arrested political activist and convener of group ‘Concerned Nigerians’, Deji Adeyanju, along with two others, while he was preparing for a planned peaceful protest by the group to the Headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force scheduled for at 9 a.m this morning Deji had announced through the social media […]
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