Bauchi State Government has spent the sum of N20 million to secure freedom for 96 convicts from across the Correctional Centres in the state. The amount,...
Amnesty International on Friday urged the Federal Government to rescue the over 600 people abducted by terrorists in Borno and Kaduna States. Suspected Boko Haran insurgents...
Niger State Governor, Umar Bago, has disclosed that his administration is in talks with bandits with a view to finding a lasting solution to the issue...
Leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark has rubbished calls by some Northern elites for the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to grant amnesty...
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...
The rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has condemned the police crackdown on #NorthIsBleeding protesters in many states across the region. Some individuals under the aegis of the...
Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has, once again, kicked against any attempt at labelling Northern bandits as terrorists, and has instead advocated for a blanket...
International human rights organisation, Amnesty International (AI) has accused the Nigerian government over the incessant disappearance of citizens. The body also called on the President Muhammadu...
A senior member of the Taliban on Tuesday announced a general “amnesty” for everyone in the country and urged women to join the government, days after...
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has called on the Federal Government to accord bandits and herdsmen the kind of treatment that was given to the...
Amnesty International on Tuesday, criticised the Federal Government over its silence and inability to protect the lives of Nigerians amidst widespread cases of violence, pillaging, and...
The Amnesty International said on Wednesday the rape of women and children by Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East has increased at an alarming rate. In...
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, said on Saturday there would be no more amnesty for criminals in the state. Ortom, who stated this during the...
The Muslim Rights Concerns (MURIC), has called on Nigerians to praise Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, instead of villyfying him for putting his life at risk...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International, said at least 38 #EndSARS protesters were killed by security agents in various parts of the country on Tuesday. In a statement...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International said on Monday at least 10 protesters had been killed by the police since the protests against the brutality of the now-disbanded...
Rape offenders deserve to be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, not to be granted amnesty, women in Kogi State have charged government. Women of Kogi...
Amnesty International on Friday urged the Federal Government to release the reports on alleged rights abuses by security agents in the country. The government had in...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday urged the Amnesty International (AI) to stop its “reckless distortion of facts on the military campaign against terrorism in the...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International on Thursday issued a damning report over the number of people killed due to incessant cult clashes in various communities Rivers State...
Thirteen journalists from print, online, television, radio, photo, and editorial cartoon categories have been shortlisted for the 2019 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Journalism. Similarly, Vice...
The John Magufuli-led Tanzanian government has been accused of increasingly repressing political dissent as censorship mounts in the country. In two separate reports issued on Monday,...
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has granted amnesty to 13 suspected armed bandits that were arrested by security operatives along Kontonkoro axis in Magama Local Government...
From Ajansii Mgbo Some Niger Delta youth leaders have expressed disappointment with the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration over the manner it has handled the Ogoni clean-up exercise....
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has slammed the Amnesty programme recently granted to over 22,000 cultist in River states by Governor Nyesome Wike. The Rivers state...
Amnesty International has beckoned on the Singapore government not to carry out the planned execution of Chijoke Obioha, a Nigerian convicted on Wednesday for possession of...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has announced a N5 million reward for anybody with useful information that would lead to the arrest of a former amnesty...
A Niger Delta militant group, Forest Soldiers, aka Isaac Boro Last Born, had said it is going to do damages in the Niger Delta that the...
In a rare show of bravado, over 20 Bakassi militants invaded the Cross River State Governor’s Office, Calabar, holding the Deputy Governor, Ivara Esu and staff...
The House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government to immediately initiate a “sustainable plan” to end the militancy in the Niger Delta, adding that...
The Revolutionary Council, JRC, of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF has said it jettisoned its planned missile launch against some targeted areas across the...
Another crisis may be brewing in the ever restive Niger Delta, as militants numbering over 600, Friday, demanded that the Federal Government reclaim the ceded Bakassi...
The Defence Headquarters has denied granting amnesty to members of the Boko Haram insurgent group, describing an online report that 800 Boko Haram members had been...
Former Special Adviser to former President Jonathan on Niger Delta, Kingsley Kuku and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have differed on when he should...
Military authorities have dismissed allegations of widespread torture and extrajudicial killings by the Amnesty International (AI) against some senior military officers serving and retired. Defence Headquarters...
