The group said the casualties were more than double the previous five months, according to a report
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Amnesty’s report documented 101 cases of arbitrary arrest and torture by Cameroonian troops charged with fighting the insurgents between 2013 and 2017.
The army had set up the Board of Inquiry to investigate the allegations contained in a series of Amnesty International reports accusing military officer of human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings during their engagements with Boko Haram and IDPs in the North-East, and member of IPOB in the South-East.
Taner Kilic, the head of the branch, was detained this week by anti-terror police in an early morning raid in Izmir province
The position of the group was contained in a statement signed by its Director in Nigeria, Osai Ojigho
The Ministry made the remark in a statement issued by Ambassador Olushola Enikanolaye, its Permanent Secretary, on Friday in Abuja
The man had been found guilty by the country’s supreme court of shooting six people with a machine gun in January
About 50 people were reportedly injured, state television said on Sunday
Asking AI to leave Nigeria is not a difficult request for them to defile compliance. This is all that Nigerians are asking at the moment and it is not asking for too much.
Demonstrators have since Monday besieged the AI office demanding the exit of the body from Nigeria
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
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