The Director-General of the agency, Mariam Kolo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Saturday, said the accused is a staff of NECO
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CSNAC, which is a coalition of over 150 anti-corruption groups, had in letter dated November 15, 2016 and signed by its Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, urged the commission to protect the three whistleblowers who were sacked from the institution after spearheading a petition to the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, against the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Olusola Oyewole
The Chief Press Officer of the commission, Fatima Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the fight against human rights violations would be more practical
aking its cue from the November 12, 2016, report of PremiumTimes, an online newspaper, where the recent action of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in the sacking of three whistleblowers who spearheaded a petition to the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, against the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof.Olusola Oyewole, was revealed
This was contained in the report of the National Human Rights Commission Special Investigation Panel on the clash released in Abuja on Wednesday
This was sequel to a petition presented to the NHRC on Wednesday in Abuja
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Nigerian Army to produce the soldiers alleged to have forced a fellow…
Odinkalu, who is on a fact-finding mission to Rivers State, said this during a courtesy call on Peterside at the Greater Together Campaign office in Port Harcourt
The letter of complaint signed by the Rivers State Governor and Director General of the APCPCO, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, will on March 9 be dispatched to the International Criminal Court, the Inspector General of Police and the National Human Rights Commission, among others
The party said doing so amounted to impersonation and flagrant impunity to trample on the sanctity of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of 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 Eagle Online had some months back exclusively reported how his family flew him out of the country for further medical care
This was contained in a statement signed by the commission’s Chief Press Secretary, Fatimah Mohammed, in Abuja on Friday
Angwe directed the Lagos office of the commission to work with the police and other relevant stakeholders to unravel those behind the dastardly act
In the same vein, the council constituted a three-man panel of inquiry to investigate lingering crisis in Rivers State
Mbu said this on Thursday in Abuja during a visit to the National Human Rights Commission office following the commission’s summon on him over alleged human rights violations in the course of his duties
Yet policemen in Anambra State, in a flagrant disregard of the IGP’s order, have continued to detain an hotelier in police cell for over 14 weeks
He restated the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to the partnership it shares with the Nigerian Armed Forces in the fight against terrorism as well as in various joint efforts at upholding the internal security of the country
The governor, who was reacting to a petition signed by the Executive Secretary of the Commission and other human rights bodies, said: “Incidentally, the state government has actually not just granted Calistus Eke pardon but released him from prison….”