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Resign, if being Nigerian president is tough, HURIWA tells Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 13 July 2022 0

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

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Lai Mohammed, Festus Keyamo will tear Nigeria apart – HURIWA warns Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 29 November 2021 0

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. […]

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Igbos marginalized – HURIWA tells Buhari over non-functional railways in Southeast

Ihesiulo Grace 1 November 2021 0

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 […]

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Banditry: Arrest Gumi for threatening end of Nigeria – HURIWA to President Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 7 October 2021 0

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 […]

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Hushpuppi: Tell Nigerians outcome of Abba Kyari’s probe – HURIWA charges IGP, PSC

Ihesiulo Grace 7 September 2021 0

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

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DSS under fire for alleged inaction after cleric, Salihu Zaria, threatened to kill Christians

Ihesiulo Grace 24 August 2021 0

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.

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HURIWA blasts Garba Shehu for attacking Bishop Kukah over report to US congress

Ihesiulo Grace 21 July 2021 0

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 […]

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HURIWA: Military plane crash, government trying to hide the truth

Ihesiulo Grace 20 July 2021 0

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 […]

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Sack Monguno, arrest Sheikh Gumi Now – HURIWA tells Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 22 June 2021 0

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

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HURIWA tells Buhari: ‘Stop reminding Igbos about how you participated in the murder of their parents’

Ihesiulo Grace 2 June 2021 0

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 […]

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Police and Ebonyi Govt lied about bomb explosion in Afikpo – HURIWA claims

Ihesiulo Grace 27 May 2021 0

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 […]

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N1.4b FIRS Refreshment: CSGGG disagrees with HURIWA

Ihesiulo Grace 22 April 2021 0

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 […]

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HURIWA tells Buhari, Rid your govt of terrorist sympathizers

Ihesiulo Grace 18 April 2021 0

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 […]

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HURIWA implores Wike to reverse ‘apartheid’ ban on Igbo meetings

Ihesiulo Grace 12 April 2021 0

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

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Bandits: 2 months deadline, reason for spike in insecurity in Nigeria – HURIWA

Ihesiulo Grace 14 March 2021 0

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 […]

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Fuel price hike: Buhari has lost control – HURIWA

Ihesiulo Grace 12 March 2021 0

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said the uncertainty in the pump price of petrol is an indication that “President Muhammadu Buhari has lost control.” HURIWA made the remark while condemning the “ever pervasive climate of apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty” on petrol pump price. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, had

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Northern elders berates HURIWA for backing service chiefs

Ihesiulo Grace 6 January 2021 0

*Says, their position is anti-people, insensitive, shameful *Insists on sack of military heads over worsening insecurity Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja A Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development (CNEEPD) have berated the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) for opposing its position that service chiefs be replaced due the worsening security situation in the

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EndSARS: HURIWA kicks as police moves to stop probe

Ihesiulo Grace 4 December 2020 0

The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja asking it to stop the ongoing judicial panels of inquiry set up to look into cases of alleged police brutality, Daily Times gathered. The judicial panels of inquiry were set up in most states of the country by governors to […]

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Be professional in investigating Uwa’s murder case, HURIWA charges Police

Ihesiulo Grace 3 June 2020 0

Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has charged the Nigerian Police Force to adhere to strict professional conduct while investigating the rape and killing of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa. HURIWA also express worry that “The Police may scuttle and muddle up the investigations of the circumstances and the persons […]

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Buhari’s government has violated Nigerian constitution with reckless abandon – HURIWA

Ihesiulo Grace 11 March 2020 0

“The damage unleashed on the domestic economy of Nigeria since 2015 by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration-led administration is horrendous. It may take a lifetime for the nation to recover the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said The group in a statment signed by Emmanuel Onwubiko, its National Coordinator on Wednesday, accused […]