Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières from Cameroon; Maina Kiai, a human rights activist and Director of Human Rights Watch’s Global Alliances and Partnerships programme from Kenya; and Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Programme Manager at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa from Senegal, Ghana and South Africa, have been appointed as Board Members to the newly created Oversight Board.
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Dr. Kayode Ajulo, a legal practitioner and human rights lawyer, has called for an alternative measure to the lockdown occasioned by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Petty Offences are defined as minor offences or offences without victims. In most cases, the poor and vulnerable members of the society form the bulk of the perpetrators of such offences.
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has cautioned officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force currently deployed for the enforcement of the lockdown and social restriction orders to ensure that the rights of Nigerians are not infringed upon under any pretext.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) on Thursday, prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja, to give him a date for hearing in his application regarding Mr Omoyele Sowore’s, Convener, #RevolutionNow protests detention.
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the wife of late legal luminary and human rights activist, Ganiyat Fawehinmi, on her 70th birthday.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged “the governments of Lagos and Oyo states to “take immediate action to address the numerous ongoing human rights impacts of the deadly and catastrophic building collapse in their respective states, including by taking meaningful steps to avoid further damage to the human rights of the people affected.”
Top prominent human rights organisations and individuals, led by Femi Falana (SAN), have asked the Federal Government to end the killings in Zamfara State.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday urged officers and men of the Nigerian Army to always uphold human rights.
A Nigerian human rights lawyer, Adeola Austin Oyinlade, has been declared winner of the International Bar Association’s Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Legal Practitioner to Human Rights for 2018.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has dragged Uganda and President Yoweri Museveni to the United Nations over allegations of grave human rights violations in that country.
Falana made the call at the National Honours Investiture for heroes of democracy, especially late Chief MKO Abiola, acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 Presidential Election in the country, at Aso Villa, Abuja.
The activists made the appeal against the backdrop of the apparent confusion generated by the Federal Government’s recent announcement that it had drawn a line on hate speeches.
Abba made the statement in commemoration of the International Human Rights Day 2014 and as further proof of his commitment to respect the rights of Nigerians
Angwe spoke in Abuja on Friday when he received a delegation of “Concerned Tiv-Taraba Youths Frontier”, who complained to the commission over alleged genocide by Fulani herdsmen in the state
The Force Public Relation Officer, CSP Frank Mba, said this when he visited the Headquarters of the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja
The training programme is principally to educate police officers and civilians on human rights and its violation