•Activists of the NGO for the Ethical Treatment of Animals during Pope Francis weekly general audience today at The Vatican Animal rights activists briefly interrupted Pope Francis’ weekly audience at the Vatican today, holding up signs demanding an end to bullfighting. Two activists from PETA, an international charity which defends animal rig...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) A human rights activist Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) has notified security agencies, requesting protection over planned public meetings, rallies, and processions by a non-governmental body, the Take It Back Movement, its members, some patriotic Nigerians and groups. In the letter dated today, Fr...
Amnesty International yesterday hailed the ruling of the ECOWAS Court, which ordered the federal government to conduct a fresh investigation into rights violations that occurred during the October 2020 #EndSARS protests across Nigeria. The Director Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, in a statement reiterated the organisation’s commitme...
•A protester reacts to a teargas canister launched at them by riot police A total of 39 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Kenya that erupted over deeply unpopular planned tax hikes, a national rights watchdog said today. “Data from our records indicates that thirty-nine people have died and three hundred and sixty-one [&he...
A former Caretaker Chairman, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, Mr Lucky Okodeh, has sued the Nigerian army for allegedly publishing his photograph among those wanted in connection to the killing of 17 soldiers in Okuama in Delta. Okodeh, in the suit filed before Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court, Abuja by […]
UN chief, Antonio Guterres The UN yesterday highlighted the need to defend women’s rights which were under threat, citing a reversal in hard-won progress, increasing violence against women and a growing digital gender divide. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said this at the opening of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of...
•Edison Ehie A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt today dismissed the preliminary objection by counsel to the Nigerian Police, Celestine Dickson, challenging the jurisdiction of the Court to hear the fundamental rights suit by the Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Hon. Edison Ehie against the police for lack of merit. The [&h...
•Akinlade Olutunji The National President of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, Akinlade Olutunji, has said that no state governor in Nigeria has the legal right to ban mining activities in their states. He said that the mining act is found in the executive list and under the control of the federal government, reports Daily […...
•Zainab Duke Abiola An Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu has ordered the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, to pay the sum of N50million to Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, for violating her fundamental rights. The court, in the judgement […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will appeal an N100m fine imposed on it by the Federal High Court, Abuja, over the violation of the rights of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele had instituted a fundamental human rights suit against the agency, the federal […]
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