Human Rights

Just In: IMF, World Bank Dictating Economic Policy to Nigeria, Says Falana

By Segun Adebayo Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has accused the Federal Government of surrendering control of Nigeria’s economy to the International...

Reopen Investigation Into Dele Giwa’s Murder, Court Orders FG’s Attorney General

Thirty-eight years after, a Federal High Court in Abuja, in a landmark ruling, has directed the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister...

Outrage as Akwa Ibom Judge, Obot, sends human rights lawyer, Effiong, to prison for defending journalist

A human rights lawyer, Mr Inibehe Effiong, was on Wednesday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, sent to prison by the State Chief...

Nigeria: We are closely monitoring repression of rights to freedom of expression – Commonwealth

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Rt Hon Patricia Scotland, has stated that the Commonwealth is “closely monitoring developments...

Human rights lawyer, expectant wife, slaughtered by suspected herdsmen

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   A human rights activist and lawyer, Moses Udam and his pregnant wife have been brutally murdered by...

Buhari is repressing human rights – and getting away with it

    By Kolawole Olaniyan   President Muhammadu Buhari is failing to live up to his promises to ensure respect for human rights,...