President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday decorated Mr. Tunji Disu with the rank of Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) at the State House in Abuja. The ceremony formally marks Disu’s elevation as Nigeria’s 23rd Inspector-General of Police, placing him at the helm of the nation’s primary internal security agency during a period of significant domestic […]
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has strongly condemned the proposed United States sanctions targeting prominent Nigerian Muslim figures including Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and the leadership of Miyetti Allah—describing the move as biased and “lopsided.” In a statement released on February 12, 2026, the group argued that targeting specific Muslim leaders while ignoring other “asymmetric threats” […]
A wave of apprehension has gripped the residents of the Mangu Local Government Area in Plateau State following a violent raid by armed bandits that has left a prominent local Imam missing. The attack, which occurred in the early hours of Friday, underscores the persistent “asymmetric threats” facing rural communities and the ongoing challenges in […]
United States Republican lawmakers have introduced a high-stakes legislative bill aimed at imposing targeted sanctions on prominent Nigerian political and social figures, including former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore. The bill, which cites alleged “human rights violations” and “asymmetric threats” to regional stability, signals a potential shift in […]
In a tragic escalation of the security crisis in Kaduna State, suspected bandits launched a violent early-morning raid on the Karku community in Kauru Local Government Area on Saturday, February 7, 2026. The attackers abducted Reverend Father Nathaniel Asuwaye, the Parish Priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, along with ten other residents. The assault resulted […]
An Enugu State High Court has delivered a landmark judgment ordering the United Kingdom government to pay £420 million in compensation to the descendants of the coal miners slain during the 1949 Iva Valley massacre. The ruling, delivered on February 6, 2026, concludes a decades-long legal battle for restitution following the extrajudicial killing of 21 […]
A cleric known as Joy Ebere and her family say they have commenced a legal process against Ahmad Isah, a human rights campaigner, and Brekete Family, his organisation, over alleged defamation. Ebere noted that the damages to the tune of N497 million and legal fees they might have incurred during the process. Addressing a press […]
By Godwin Anyebe The issue of human rights and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has grown to be a source of concern in Nigeria and the region of West Africa. Reason being that, most companies that operate in Nigeria and the region of West Africa outrightly violates the norms and convention of human rights as it […]
National Human Rights Commission says it received about 1,000 complaints in 10 months in Lagos state, out of which half of the cases were on sexual and gender violence against women and children. Mr Lucas Koyejo, Coordinator of the commission in Lagos state, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in […]
*As wife of Police victim begs for justice ANDREW OROLUA, ABUJA The Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS, on Friday, expressed displeasure and anger over the refusal of the Nigeria police to respond to its orders to testify over one John Emeka Alozie that its personnel arrested in 2017 and […]
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called for the prosecution of those behind what it called the unlawful invasion of the Abuja residence of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Mary Odili. Mr Tony Ojukwu, the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, made the call on Monday in a statement signed by Mrs Fatimah […]
A Nigerian leading human rights movement, the Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC), has said that Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka got it wrong on his calls that famous Pastor Temitope Joshua should be tried by the law court over the collapse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations. The rights group in a statement on […]
Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Chief Judge of the federal high court justice John Tsoho has directed that monetary claims and default fees in respect of fundamental human rights application before the federal high court should no longer be charged. In a circular dated February 12, 2021 and signed by the assistant chief registrar litigation, Ms […]
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) independent investigative panel on the violations of human rights by the defunct Special Anti-Robbed Squad (SARS) has postponed sitting indefinitely. The panel was billed to resume sitting on Monday after the Christmas and New Year break. Mrs Fatimah Agwai-Mohammed, Assistant Director (PA), Corporate Affairs and External Linkages of the […]
The Kaduna state government has drawn a fine line between what it considers freedom of speech and statements geared towards inciting violence. This comes in the wake of the present court case between the government and Chidi Odinkalu, a former chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Audu Maikori, president of Chocolate City Entertainment, […]
Mr Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has said that police officers responsible for human rights abuses should be made to pay the court for personal damages. Falana said the reason human rights abuses remained prevalent was because when victims of rights violation got court judgments, it was the Nigeria Police Force, and […]
By Charles Onyekwere The Human Rights, Liberty Access & Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE), has joined hundreds of groups, Stakerhokders and individuals to condemn the despicable killing of defenceless Igbo youths at Emene last weekend. The chairman B.O.T of the group,Dede Uzor Uzor, who made the condemnation on behalf of the foundation in Enugu decried the […]
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has received 104 complaints and incidents of alleged human rights violations from April 27 – May 3 Executive Secretary of NHRC, Mr, Tony Ojukwu, made this known on Monday in a report released in Abuja, on the incidence of violation of human rights during the previous lockdown. Ojukwu had […]
A human rights lawyer, Mr. Aladesanmi Joke, has urged the three tiers of government to take further steps in ensuring that released inmates are adequately cared and catered for to stop returning to crime. The human rights lawyer said this on Thursday via her twitter handle. Joke said: “While it is good news that the […]
“You are what you eat” *anonymous. Have you ever wondered how your kitchen or rather your pantry will look like if all the farmers […]