Governments at both the federal and state levels have been charged to take decisive actions to tackle the worsening hunger and food insecurity across the country. The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) which sounded the alarm also called on the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction to revive its […]
Rights group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has demanded the resignation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu if he cannot protect citizens, particularly schoolchildren, from terrorist attacks. The group bemoaned recent abductions in Kebbi and Niger states, where several hundreds of students have been declared missing. It said this can only happen in […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has warned that growing allegations of political corruption and inducement reportedly emanating from the Presidency pose a grave threat to Nigeria’s constitutional democracy. In a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja and signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the group expressed alarm over reports that […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has joined other prominent Civil Society organizations calling for a full-scale, transparent investigation into the alleged involvement of an alleged British Army officer, Major Micah Polo, in a major arms trafficking case recently uncovered by the Department of State Services (DSS) in Delta State. In a statement […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its exemplary conduct in the recent delineation of wards and polling units within the Warri Federal Constituency, covering Warri South, Warri West, and Warri South-West Local Government Areas in Delta State. Describing the delineation exercise as “a milestone […]
By Stephen Gbadamosi Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to resign immediately, if the job is tough for him. HURIWA said this in a statement on Tuesday, calling on the president to resign to reduce “the damage his crass incompetence and gross dereliction of […]
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari over the behaviour of some of his ministers. HURIWA is of the opinion that some of the Ministers of the current administration are thinking good for the country and could tear the nation apart with reckless statements being put out to public domains. […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has alleged marginalization of the southeast in the construction of railways. HURIWA accused the Federal Government of failing to revive the moribund railway lines in the region. The rights group said the resuscitation of the Nigerian railways will surely go down in history as one of the […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately arrest the controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi for allegedly saying that declaring bandits as terrorists would lead to the end of Nigeria. HURIWA, in a statement on Monday, alleged that the Islamic Cleric had on Sunday warned that declaring […]
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has condemned the alleged secrecy of the findings and recommendations of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP’S investigative panel which probed the indicted Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. Recall that Kyari was accused by a US court of colluding and conspiring with a globally notorious fraud kingpin convicted […]
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has berated the Department of State Services (DSS) over its alleged loud silence and apparent inaction to the unambiguous incitement against Christians made in a recent viral video allegedly by one Ustaz Abubakar Salihu Zaria. The association described the DSS inaction as discriminatory, illegal and totally indecorous. HURIWA […]
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has lambasted Garba Shehu, a Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, over what it described as unbridled tendencies and unwholesome disrespect shown to Roman Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah. HURIWA accused Shehu of having used his words carelessly in […]
The Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) has accused the government of trying to conceal the truth about the country’s frequent military aviation disasters. The federal government, according to the report, has refused to examine the causes of the crashes because it does not want to be held accountable to Nigerians. In an interview with […]
HURIWA, the Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to fire his National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), for damaging Nigeria’s national security. HURIWA also demanded that President Buhari detain Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a popular Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, for reportedly talking with terrorists who have been terrorizing schools and […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) to cool down and cease threatening war against any section of the country immediately. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, the rights group criticized the president’s threat to the Igbo-speaking region of the country in its […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has claimed that the Ebonyi State Government and the police command in the state lied over the detonated ‘bomb’ which killed a policeman on Tuesday. It was reported that an explosion occurred opposite Amizi Amangbala Primary School in Afikpo North in Ebonyi State on Tuesday which plunged […]
By Tom Okpe Civil Society Groups for Good Governance (CSGGG) has berated the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) over alleged expenditure of the sum of N1.4 billion by the federal inland revenue service (FIRS) on refreshment and meals in the 2021 fiscal year. An assemblage of over 180 CSOs, CSGGG urged the Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko […]
Advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rid his government of all sympathisers of the ideals of terrorism in the country. This is even as the group called on the Commander-in-Chief to immediately relieve Communications and Digital Economy Minister, Isa Ali Pantami – who is […]
The Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has criticised the ban imposed on a proposed meeting by a party, United Igbo Community in the Oyigbo Council, Rivers State, by Governor Nyesom Wike describing it as unlawful, unconstitutional and a policy akin to apartheid. HURIWA National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, released a statement advising the […]
The Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has attributed the recent spike in kidnapping and other security crisis in the North West to the two months ultimatum issued to bandits by President Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that Governor Bello Mattawalle of Zamfara State recently disclosed that the President, while deploying 6,000 soldiers to the state […]