Campaigns and Events
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June, 2020 | Abuja, Nigeria
Make A Difference Initiative launched a – one week campaign against rape in Abuja.
Founder & Executive Director, Communication and Advocacy, Lemmy Ughegbe speaking with the media at the Unity Fountain in Abuja during the nationwide protest the initiative coordinated to pressurise government to arrest and bring to book the father and son, Andrew & Victor Ogbuja who allegedly drugged, raped & sodomised 13 year old Ochanya Elizabeth Ogbanje for 5 years until she died of health complications as a result of the serial abuse.
We help to combat human rights abuses worldwide by our detailed research and strong campaigning. We ‘re taking the torturers to court. Change the laws of oppression. And free people were jailed just for expressing their opinion.
Pro-gender Initiative, Barr. Esther Uzoma and Founder of MAD, Lemmy Ughegbe sharing thoughts and experiences gathered on the field during the one week activism by Civil Society Organisations in Abuja.
Wanda Ebe, founder of Wanda Adu Foundation & Lemmy Ughegbe, Founder of Make A Difference Initiative at the Unity Fountain in Abuja in June 2020 during a protest over the rising cases of rape in Nigeria.
Aug 28, 2018 | San Francisco
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Sep 02, 2018 | San Francisco
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News and features
MAD warns NAPTIP against bungling trial of alleged rapist
Photo above: Ijato Ugbagwu, Director of Child Care, Make A Difference Initiative. A human rights and good governance advocacy group – Make A Difference Initiative (MAD) has issued warning to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP)...
Just Before the Creation of State Police, By Lemmy Ughegbe
…all hands must be on deck and we should not just jump towards the creation of state police, but we should consciously and meticulously commit all stakeholders to attaining a national consensus for its creation, while eliciting commitments from all and sundry thereof...
MAD Demands Dismissal Of Service Chiefs Over Slain Soldiers
Make A Difference Initiative (MAD), a non-governmental organization has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss Nigeria’s current service chiefs, following the killing of scores of soldiers by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Executive Director of MAD, Lemmy...