This is wrong and unacceptable. Amnesty International clearly proved by this act that it is not just an agent of confusion but in addition was planted to distort the coherence of every sovereign nation while undermining their laws. According to Justice Kayode Eso, JSC, (as he then was), “Justice is not a one way traffic affair neither is it a two way traffic affair but a three way traffic: justice to the plaintiff, to the defendants and justice to the general public
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According to Belay, Amnesty International’s information on rights abuses in Nigeria and other parts of the world are based on painstaking research that spans over several years
Amnesty also reiterated its call on the UK Government to ensure any military assistance provided to Nigeria is in keeping with human rights standards, and not provided to units accused of crimes under international law and other serious violations of human rights
The statement, signed by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, was in reaction to a report of Amnesty International that accused some of the country’s top military brass of war crimes in the fight against Boko Haram
The report, “Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands: War crimes committed by the Nigerian military,” reveals that since March 2011, more than 7,000 young men and boys died in military detention and more than 1,200 people were unlawfully killed since February 2012
Amnesty International on Wednesday claimed that Nigeria’s military top brass were warned of brutal Boko Haram attacks on the North East towns of Baga and Monguno but failed to take action
The images show some 3,700 structures damaged or destroyed in Baga and Doron Baga in Borno State this month, Amnesty said
The Nigeria Police on Thursday said that the Amnesty International’s report on alleged human rights abuses by the force was full of falsehood, “smacks of indecency and intemperate language”.
Convinced that the report just released by the United Kingdom-based non-governmental group-Amnesty International on the widespread use of torture by the Nigeria police was evidently and empirically correct, the pro-democracy non-governmental organization-HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has challenged the Inspector General of Police Mr. Suleiman Abba to carry out comprehensive internal clean up exercise to name, shame and prosecute indicted operatives and officers rather than inundate Nigerians with empty rhetorics.
The Nigeria Police has described as “blatant falsehoods and innuendoes”, an online report (not The Eagle Online) entitled ‘Welcome to Hell-Fire’: torture and other ill-treatment in Nigeria.
This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by Fatimah Agwai, the Chief Press Officer of the commission.
Prof. Bem Angwe, the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, has expressed the commission’s readiness to work on the report of alleged extra-judicial killings levelled against Nigeria by Amnesty International.
The Nigeria Police on Thursday said that the Amnesty International’s report on alleged human rights abuses by the force was full of falsehood, “smacks of indecency and intemperate language”.
While engaging in regional advocacy activities in the South Eastern States not too long ago, two major human rights issues confronted us and these are the sudden unprecedented re-emergence of illegal police check-points and the rapidly declining and shrinking democratic space in the run up to next year’s elections which is only few months away.
The Nigerian authorities said such barbarity had no place in the military and promised to investigate
The Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, has faulted Amnesty International over its report on the abduction of…
After independently verifying information based on multiple interviews with credible sources, Amnesty International on Friday revealed that the Nigerian security forces had more than four hours of advance warning about the attack but did not do enough to stop it
This information was contained in a statement issued by Major General Chris Olukolade, the Director of Defence Information, in Abuja
Amnesty International said it has received credible information from a senior officer in the Nigerian Army that over 950 people died in military custody in the first six months of 2013 alone
“We are not afraid of our operations because the military keeps to the rule of engagement, that is why there are so many arrests made