It was observed by our reporter that on Tuesday, more protesters in their hundreds joined the protest, swelling up the numbers of those insisting on AI leaving the country
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It would be recalled that a group of protesters on Monday and Tuesday barricaded the Abuja office of Amnesty International and asked the international organisation to quit Nigeria within 24 hours
The Executive Chairman of CACOL, Debo Adeniran, expressed his consternation that any civil society organization could think of attacking such a popular global organization
The government of Nigeria must wake up to its responsibility of ensuring that the country is not allowed to descend into chaos before realizing when it is too late that it should have thrown Amnesty International out of here. The wellbeing of 180 million Nigerians definitely trumps the need to be politically acceptable in the international eye, which is what tolerating this NGO amounts to
The board, inaugurated by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, would be headed by retired Major General Ahmed Jibrin
The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, gave the assurance when he paid a visit to the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, at the Army Headquarters
Major General Lucky Irabor, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, picked holes in the report while addressing newsmen in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital
Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, the acting Director of Defence Information, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the report was aimed at tarnishing “the good image of the Nigerian military”
The 40-year old man, who has yet to be named, died on Thursday while working on the Khalifa International Stadium
The organisation’s position was made known in a press statement signed the Media Manager of Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi
Its appointed National Reform Steering Assembly passed a proposal under which politicians found guilty of corruption involving more than $27.9 million could face the death penalty
Amor said: “In early 2011, Amnesty International gave the world a bogus report on whose strength a no-fly zone was imposed on Libya. The sequence of event after this led to the ouster and eventual murder of Muammar Qaddafi. By June of the same year the same Amnesty International’s investigation admitted that the international NGO cannot prove that Qaddaffi’s troops committed the rights violations as it previously claimed
However, it appears some vested foreign interests in the internal affairs of Nigeria are unhappy with the unity and peace Nigeria continues to enjoy. The country has proved wrong, prophesy of its break-up in 2015
Dabiri-Erewa said this is happening despite repeated calls for Nigerians to desist from criminal activities such as drug peddling
The conference, tagged: “Women as the agent of change,” brought women from all walks of life to talk about how they inspire other women through various empowerment programmes
It is on record that the revised version of a bill to criminalize torture, which was returned unsigned by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012, has been passed by the House of Representatives in June 2016 and has been resubmitted to the Senate for further debates by the Buhari administration
Parts of the petition reads: “Against the background of its 2015/2016 Annual Report in which it raises questions on the appalling human rights situation across the globe and scores Nigeria low as an abuser of human rights, it is pertinent to state that the ombudsman mission of Amnesty International in promoting and protecting human rights has been derailed into an incendiary and partisan goal
A civil society organisation, the Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency, said this to the United Nations on Monday during a protest march to the UN office in Abuja on what it described as campaign of calumny by Amnesty International against Nigeria
NICreL, it will appear, has a long running distrust for Amnesty International. It has seen the hand of the fellow NGO in a lot of security breaches in the country from Boko Haram, through Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN to encouraging criminals to attack and kill security operatives without expecting those in uniform to be able to protect themselves. Amnesty International gets named in them all
The following day the army said it had raided several buildings connected to the sect.
Amnesty said more than 350 people were believed to have been unlawfully killed by the military between December 12 and 14.