This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by Fatimah Agwai, the Chief Press Officer of the commission.
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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
AI said the law “will formalise discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender and intersex people and have wide-ranging effects on civil liberties in the country
Amnesty International believes Rivers State is representative of other Nigerian states where violent deaths at the hands of the police are not investigated adequately
It said while it was convenient for the military to condemn the part of the report that indicted its officers and men for rights abuses, it failed to acknowledge the sections that also pointed out the excesses of Boko Haram as mention in the report
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, in a media chat on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the methodology used by human rights group is faulty