Access to Justice and Civic Space in Nigeria

Today’s episode features a thought provoking conversation between Deborah Mancini Griffoli - the Director of the Africa Program at PartnersGlobal - and Odi Lagi - Program Director at the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI) in Nigeria. NULAI is a network of clinical programs promoting access to justice, legal aid and public interest lawyering. Their conversation explores several topics ranging from legal hurdles and efforts by civil society to improve the situation for pretrial detainees in Nigeria to the security landscape and its impact on civic space resiliency. 

As a development professional and human rights advocate with over 12 years experience promoting human rights based programming in Nigeria, Odi is a force to be reckoned with. Her work has led to the development of clinical law programmes across Nigeria’s university system, as well as University-based legal aid clinics. She is an Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) Human Rights Fellow with a Masters in Human Rights from the Central European University and a trained human rights educator from Equitas (International Centre for Human Rights Education, Canada).

Resilient Conversations is a podcast that explores different facets of individual, organizational, sectoral and systemic resiliency as it relates to civil society. It is produced by PartnersGlobal, a DC-based nonprofit organization working in service of civil society around the world to be more resilient and bring about peaceful and locally led solutions to complex issues. Don’t forget to subscribe and please if you have a moment, leave us a comment or rating if you like what you hear!