Following their very impressive endeavours towards the advancement, promotion and protection of the human rights of the downtrodden, some Nigerians in their diverse professional fields were announced as human rights award winner for the decade 2007/2017 by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria.
Those announced as winners of the Human Rights Gold Medal Awards of the Decade (2007/2017) include the Kano and Borno States Governors, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje and Alhaji Kashim Shettima.
Others include Senators Hope Uzodinma, Samuel Anyanwu and Osita Izunaso, who is also the National Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress and founder of Kpakpando Humanitarian Foundation.
Other winners are The Guardian Newspapers as the best human rights newspaper of the decade (2007/2017) and The Guardian reporter, Olusegun Olaniyi, who was named the best Human Rights reporter of the year 2017.
In a media statement, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, stated that the 10th year anniversary lecture to be delivered on December 10, 2017 would be used to recognize the awardees.
The Chairman of the event is Senator Shehu Sani.