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Belgian court finds Rwandan man guilty of acts of genocide

Ihesiulo Grace 20 December 2019 0

Brussels – A Belgian court has for the first time found a Rwandan man guilty of acts of genocide in relation to the 1994 conflict in the central African country, the Belga news agency reports. Fabien Neretse was accused of acts of genocide and war crimes for having participated in the

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Ukraine envoy urges FG to recognise ‘Holodomor’ as genocide

Ihesiulo Grace 3 December 2018 0

The Ukraine Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Valerii Aleksandruk, has urged the National Assembly to pass a resolution recognising Holodomor as genocide. The Ambassador said his government has written the executive arm of government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria’s recognition of the day. The envoy made the disclosure Saturday at the occasion of […]

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Nigeria At Risk Of Genocide, Soyinka Warns FG

Ihesiulo Grace 30 April 2018 0

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, warned that the country is at the risk of Genocide if the Federal Government fails to put an end to these killings. He also asked the Federal Government to take a decisive action to end what he describes as the ongoing ethnic cleansing in some parts of the country. Professor […]

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Afenifere wants UN to investigate Danjuma’s allegation of ethnic cleansing

Ihesiulo Grace 28 March 2018 0

Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has urged the United Nations (UN), Special Rapporteur on genocide to investigate what it called the alleged ethnic cleansing by herdsmen in Nigeria. The call followed allegations of a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Theophelus Yakubu Danjuma, retd, who had at the weekend told Nigerians to defend themselves against […]

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Group urges for stop to ‘genocide’ in the Nigeria’s middle belt, northern region

Ihesiulo Grace 7 January 2018 0

The Middle Belt Forum has called on Nigeria’s government and concerned organisations to, as a matter of urgency, stop the incessant killings and the deliberate attempt to wipe out tribes in the region. The organisation in a press statement signed by its president, Bala J. Takaya and Isuwa B. Dogo, publicity secretery, said that the […]

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Kaduna killings: Rivers CAN leaders protest, call on PMB to end genocide

Ihesiulo Grace 8 January 2017 0

Hundreds of Christian clerics under the auspices of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Sunday staged a peaceful protest to the Government House, Port Harcourt, demanding an end  to the Southern Kaduna killings.   The protesters were received at the Government House gate, Port Harcourt, by the representative of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and Chief of […]

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S’East human rights group alleges genocide by Nigeria govt

Ihesiulo Grace 12 December 2016 0

A coalition of human rights and pro-democracy organization has alleged that there has been silent genocide in Nigeria in the last 17- year old second republic, in which about 101, 500 defenceless Nigerians were killed extra-judicially. The South East based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs) made this allegation yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra state during a

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Rwanda Seeks Information on French Declassification of Genocide Documents

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2015 0

  Rwanda wants to know how the French government will go about releasing declassified documents relating to the 1994 genocide that left about 800,000 — mostly minority Tutsi — dead in a hundred-day massacre.   Rwandan Attorney General Busingye Johnston said his government has asked its diplomatic representative in France to find out more about […]