HURIWA recalled that security operatives had reportedly arrested a PUNCH Newspapers correspondent, Solomon Odeniyi at Dunamis Church in Abuja.
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The National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the training became necessary following the negative impacts of fake news in the country.
This was contained in a media statement he personally signed on Wednesday.
The Human Rights Writers Association has advised the Federal Government not to pay states the final refund from the Paris Club debt until after the swearing in of newly elected governors on May 29.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja commended the Nigerian military for the professional conduct of its personnel during Saturday`s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
A prominent pro-democracy and Non Governmental Organisation, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has described as disappointing and shameful the eleventh hour decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission under the leadership of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to postpone the long scheduled February 16, 2019 Presidential and National Assembly’s polls by a week.
HURIWA affirmed that section 308(1) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 (as amended), which is a legal immunity from prosecution of holders of certain executive offices does not forbid the placement of a governor on security watch if such a person constitutes grave danger to public peace.
Making the plea is pro-democracy and non-governmental body, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, which specifically asked Onnoghen to call out all the court systems in Nigeria to a week-long warning strike to protest against serial disobedience of President Muhammadu Buhari to a litany of binding Federal High Court bail orders with specific reference to the prolonged detention of erstwhile National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, and the leader of the Islamic movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaki.
HURIWA stated that apart from the total and disgraceful disrespect to the constituted authority of the National Assembly, which Idris displayed in failing to honour a lawful invitation to answer questions on security related failures of his headship of the Nigeria Police force, the sponsorship of jobless youths to demonstrate against the Senate and the sponsorship of media warfare targeting the National Assembly as being done by the office of the Inspector General of Police all amounts to very serious threats to national security and constitutional democracy.
The Rights group said the decision is ill-advised and is meant to provide ample opportunities for politicians who are incumbents of the two main political parties – All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party – to use powers of incumbency and massive financial resources at their disposal to manipulate the electoral process to reach a pre-determined objective.
HURIWA recalled that Victor Oluwadamilare, Special Assistant Media to Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications, had alleged that his boss in the course of his 29 months as minister has bought 12 luxury houses mostly in Abuja, Lagos and Ibadan, and has acquired at least 25 Exotic cars within the same period.
A Press release by Emmanuel Onwubiko and Zainab Ahmed, its coordinator and media officer respectively stated that after curious review of recent developments at the NIA, HURIWA was convinced that Rufai’s appointment smacks of nepotism, injustice and fraud, given the avalanche of allegations against the man.
The National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that there was need to carry out diligent investigation on the killing of the woman
HURIWA had recalled that only at the Weekend the Presidency was quoted in the media to have stated that the recent killings of 8 Nigerian citizens in Zamfara State is not the business of President Mohammadu Buhari
The group said high profile security and defence appointments made so far by the current administration are skewed to favour of the Hausa/Fulani of Northern Nigeria and should be mitigated and addressed without further delay or semantic gymnastics
The Rights group said it was worried that if appropriate clarifications are not immediately provided and the minister asked to desist from dressing comically on national stage, it could be construed that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has officially endorsed the particular secret confraternity that is identified by the adorning of red beret and dresses that looks like military fatigue
Even as it conceded that the recent voluntary slash by 50 per cent in the salaries of the President and…
The Human Rights Writers Associations, an NGO, has urged the Federal Government to return checkpoints as means of reducing bomb…
It said based on the well known doctrine of Superior/Command Responsibility, which rules out any direct criminal liability for top level military commanders who had no knowledge or indeed not involved in directly commanding the operatives in the war front to wantonly commit war crime or violate the fundamental human rights of detainees or enemy combatants, and in this instance the armed terrorists in the North East of Nigeria
HURIWA recalled that the Ibrahim Lamorde led management had sensationally paid for half page advertorial in two national dailies at the Weekend disclaim Mr Mike Nzekwe and Mrs Julieth Ibekaku even when the Chairman of the EFCC is aware and indeed has entered appearance through the EFCC ‘s legal team in two separate maters before the Federal High Court Abuja Division and the National Industrial Court in which the duo through their respective legal teams are asking the judiciary to reverse their unconstitutional removal on the ground that it bothered on witch hunt and indeed illegal