Security Operatives Brutalize Journalist, Seize His Phone At First Lady’s Empowerment Program

  Efecha Gold, a reporter with Golden Nation Multimedia, has narrated how the security personnel harassed and brutalized him while covering the Renewed Hope Initiative agricultural empowerment program organized by…

CD/HURIDE Flays NAFDAC Over Alleged Extortion of Onitsha Drug Market Traders

  The Human Rights Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’Foundation (HURIDE) and Campaign for Democracy (CD), South East Zone have unequivocally condemned the exploitative and extortionist tendencies of the National Agency…

Kinsmen torture man to death, abandon corpse after doctor pronounced him dead

  …Imo CP orders probe The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, has launched an investigation into the brutal killing of Chibugo Amadi, a resident of Umuora village in…

ECOWAS Court orders Ghana to pay $75,000 for detaining 30 unlawfully

  The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Government of Ghana to pay $75,000 in damages to 30 members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation over their prolonged and…

Police in Imo demote officer for assaulting traveler in viral video

  The Imo State Police Command has demoted a sergeant, Anayo Ekezie for assaulting a road traveller using a smoke gunner along the Owerri-Aba Expressway. The Command also announced the…

Midnight Raid: Police accused of rights violation on Abia family, as RULAAC demand probe

  Human rights group, Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has called for an urgent investigation into the alleged abduction-style arrest and detention of a family by police…

Police officers steal ₦350,000 from traveller at checkpoint in Imo

  Operatives attached to the Imo State Police Command have allegedly stolen over ₦350,000 from a traveler during a stop-and-search operation at the Awogwu Logara junction, locally known as “Big…

Police detain social media influencer for criticizing Borno government official

  The Borno state police has arrested Sultan Usman, a social media activist, for criticising Adam Bababe, the executive secretary of the state geographical information service, over flood prevention measures…

“Tell Your Papa”: Banning a song for criticizing Govt, unlawful – Amnesty

  Amnesty International has accused Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of violating fundamental human rights by banning Eedris Abdulkareem’s politically charged song “Tell Your Papa”, calling the move a “blatant…

Kano rejects ECOWAS court ruling on blasphemy laws

  The Kano government has reacted to the ECOWAS court judgement which declared the state’s blasphemy laws as human rights violations. The state government said it has every right to…

Protesters, journalists beaten up in Rivers, activists arrested in Yobe —Amnesty Int’l

  A leading human rights group, Amnesty International, has expressed concerns over “attacks” on protesters in Abuja and Port Harcourt. Daily Trust reports that protesters under the aegis of Take…

Police disperse Abuja protesters with tear gas

  Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on Monday dispersed protesters with tear gas in the Maitama area of Abuja. The protesters, who had gathered peacefully to express their grievances,…

Borno government detains teenager for criticizing “poor condition of public schools”

  Amnesty International has accused the Borno state government of disregard for the rule of law over the alleged detention of one Muhammed Haruna. Haruna, a resident of the state,…

Tiger Base Police: FMC Owerri Keeps Mum On Corpses Dump At Morgue, Lawyers Demand Removal Of Oladimeji (5)

  JULIANA FRANCIS in this concluding part of this investigation on Tiger Base Police human rights violations, reached out to the Nigeria Correctional Services and Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri,…

Tiger Base Police: How Commander Oladimeji Implicated Unit In Death Of Detainee (4)

JULIANA FRANCIS in this part of the story, brings in further evidence to show human rights abuses by Tiger Base Police Personnel and shares how Tiger Base Police indicted itself…