Amnesty International, on Wednesday, called on the Nigerian government to put an end to its repression of peaceful protests, citing the country’s worst economic crisis in...
Amnesty International has criticised the occupation of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (DSS) office in Abuja by operatives of the Department of State Services. DSS...
Amnesty International Nigeria has raised concerns over what it describes as a concerted effort by Nigerian authorities to undermine and intimidate the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)...
Amnesty International on Friday alleged that more than 1,000 #EndBadGovernance protesters are being remanded in prisons across the country. The protests put together by a group...
Isa Sanusi, Country Director of Amnesty International, has condemned the invasion of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday night. Sanusi issued a...
Amnesty International stated on Friday that 13 protesters were allegedly killed by security forces across Nigeria, on the first day of the #EndBadGovernance protests across the...
Amnesty International, an international human rights organisation, has called on the Federal Government to withdraw a 21-day ultimatum issued to waterfront communities in the Oworonshoki area...
Amnesty International, an international non-governmental organisation (INGO), has asked the Nigerian govt under President Bola Tinubu to treat the recent rising wave of kidnapping incidents across...
Amnesty International has commended President Bola Tinubu for ratifying the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Rights of Older Persons,...
Amnesty International, on Friday, stated that three years after the #EndSARS demonstration in 2020, fifteen demonstrators from that event were still being arbitrarily detained. The majority...
Amnesty International Nigeria, on Monday, called for a transparent coroner’s inquest into the deaths of the 103 EndSARS protesters, for whom the Lagos State Government is...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday expressed concern credited to the rights watchdog, Amnesty International, on the country’s security challenges. The agency’s Acting Director in...
These top 10 stories across the nation’s newspapers might interest you. 1. Court directs INEC to grant Obi, Atiku access to inspect election materials Peter Obi,...
Amnesty International on Friday urged Zamfara and Adamawa States to lift the ban placed on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the states. The Director of Amnesty International,...
Ahead of the 2023 polls, Amnesty International has slammed political actors for instigating violence in an already-fragile polity as Nigerians battle with fuel and new notes’...
The Nigerian military allegedly been the subject of Amnesty International’s false accusations of transgressions in the fight against terrorism in the North East, according to the...
Amnesty International on Monday, accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, with repeated cluster bomb attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, leading to the deaths of...
Over 1,500 school children have been kidnapped by armed groups in Nigeria since Boko Haram abducted 276 Chibok schoolgirls. This is the situation according to an...
The human rights group, Amnesty International, on Thursday slammed the Department of State Services (DSS) for its invasion of the Abuja office of the Civil Society...
Global human rights group, Amnesty International, says it is no surprise that the Nigerian government has denied that there was a massacre of protesting Nigerian youths...
Global human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) says the report by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses...
One year after the killing of protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos State by security operatives, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed...
The human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has decried a lack of justice over police brutalities and extra-judicial killings meted to citizens and youths despite the #EndSARS...
The Presidency on Wednesday accused the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) of stockpiling substantial arms and ammunition to wreak havoc across the country. The Senior Special...
The Amnesty International Nigeria said on Tuesday at least 112 people have been killed and 160 others abducted by herdsmen and bandits in the northern part...
Amnesty International has bemoaned what it claims were extra-judicial killings of Nigerians in the South-Eastern region of Nigeria. According to the body, no fewer than 115...
Members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have staged a protest at the British Embassy in Ireland against the arrest and detention of their...
A human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has accused the Federal Government of being “highly sensitive to criticism” with a focus on its public image. This was...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Monday, accused the International Criminal Court (ICC), Amnesty International and other foreign organizations of constantly harassing Nigerian...
Following the abduction of hundreds of school boys in Katsina State, Amnesty International, a global rights organisation, on Tuesday said education in northern Nigeria is under...
A human rights organisation under the aegis of Conference of Nigeria Civil Society for Peace, Human Rights and National Unity (CNCSPHRNU) has given Amnesty International an...
Amnesty International (AI) has indicted Boko Haram insurgents and the Nigerian Army of indiscriminately killing many older citizens due to their inability to flee attacks. The...
Amnesty International has said that 10 women working in Kwashabe rice farm in Borno State, where Boko Haram slaughtered 43 persons, were still missing. The farm...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Federal Government to put an end to the harassment and intimidation against Amnesty International Office...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has denied a report by Amnesty International (AI) that police officers shot at #EndSARS protesters. According to Adamu, the October...
The Presidency has faulted the recent Amnesty International (AI) report on the shooting of unarmed and peaceful EndSARS protesters by soldiers in Lekki, Lagos State. The...
Rights group, Amnesty International has demanded that the Federal Government of Nigeria stop its move to cover up the Lekki Toll Gate shootings which took place...
Rights group, Amnesty International has reacted to alleged attacks on peaceful #EndSars demonstrators in Lagos State by supposedly sponsored thugs which was captured on social media....
Amnesty International has beckoned on Nigerians to ensure they protect their freedom of expression. There have been concerns over perceived threats on freedom of expression in...
A report by rights group Amnesty International and Angolan campaign group Omunga has revealed that no fewer than seven teenagers have been killed during Covid-19 enforcement...
The Amnesty International has condemned attacks meted out to a journalist, Eyo Charles, by a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode was seen in a...
Tragedy struck at the prison in Farafagana in Madagascar at around 12:00 local time (09:00 GMT) when no fewer than 20 inmates were killed and several...
Rights group, Amnesty International has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of leaving rural communities at the mercy of rampaging bandits. The group which made the...
Amnesty International has stated that the potential turmoil being stirred up by various factions ahead of the gubernatorial election in Edo State should send clear danger...
Amnesty International has called on Kano State government to quash the death sentence on Yahaya Sharif Aminu for blasphemy. It described the sentence as a travesty...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International, on Friday accused the police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of engaging in suspects’ torture and extrajudicial executions. In a new report titled:...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International, Wednesday condemned the arrest of one Nastura Sharif, who allegedly organized a series of protests against the Federal Government in Katsina a...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare rape as a national crisis in the country. The organization said that it joined its...
Amnesty International on Saturday regretted that after four years, justice was yet to come the way of about 60 pro-Biafra protesters killed in Nkpor, Anambra State....
The Nigerian military has faulted a report by rights group Amnesty International (AI) that it is subjecting children in the northeast ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency...
