Interviews

Nigerians should blame themselves for putting too much hope in Buhari -Ojo

Ihesiulo Grace 5 December 2017 0

Olasupo Ojo, a former chairman, Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), is the Secretary, Constitution Review Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). In this interview with INIOBONG IWOK, Ojo assesses the anti corruption war of this administration, the defection of former Vice

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Dubai Delusion: How Lagos Govt orchestrated brutal land grab

Ihesiulo Grace 3 October 2017 0

… We demolished the area to forestall environmental disaster –State Govt It was perhaps the most brutal and bloodiest land grab since the sacking of Maroko in the 1990s. For years the inhabitant of Otodo-Gbame, a small fishing community overlooking the Lagos Lagoon just outside Lekki Phase 1, have been threatened with eviction by the […]

Headlines News Nigeria

People disappear in Nigeria – Amnesty International

Ihesiulo Grace 30 August 2017 0

Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, says that hundreds of people are being held in detained illegally, and in secret across Nigeria. In a statement to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty said enforced disappearances were being used to instil fear into civilians living in areas of the country prone to conflict and insecurity. […]

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Arewa ultimatum was hate speech – UN

Ihesiulo Grace 29 August 2017 0

Two UN bodies, the UN Office of Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), have denounced an ultimatum issued by members of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum for demanding that Igbo resident in all parts of northern Nigeria vacate the area by October 1, 2017. The two UN bodies […]

Opinion

Nigeria: AI’s High as the New Low

Ihesiulo Grace 24 February 2017 0

Amnesty International is riding the wave of a newfound high after delivering on its clients’ demand, which appears to be a mission to grade Nigeria in the same column with repressive nation states. The ebullience with which the organisation’s field assets were pumping each others hands and patting shoulders after a Nigerian event to unveiled […]

News

International NGO condemned Hypocrisy of Amnesty International over its report on Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 23 February 2017 0

A Non Governmental Organization, Global Amnesty Watch (GAW) has described as false the Amnesty International report which described various human rights abuses by Nigerian security operatives, saying the report is part of a global conspiracy to undermine the Nigerian state. Addressing a world press conference in Abuja, President of GAW, a Human Rights Law researcher […]

Opinion

Financial Times’ Misadventure in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 1 December 2016 0

From all indications, the Financial Times is gradually and consistently becoming an infamous media organisation. For a news organization that was able to do an about face in the recently held US presidential election, Financial Times (FT) must have that imperial confidence that it can and would get away with anything that it does in […]