The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has asserted that the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision granting full financial autonomy...
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a suit brought before him by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra...
A report from the Human Rights Watch in Tokyo has stated that governments harm students’ human rights through their use of some technological products for online...
A new report by the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) has claimed various security agencies in Nigeria killed 13,241 Nigerian citizens in the past 10...
Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world and has the largest economy in Africa. With independence gained in the year 1960, Nigeria has...
Due to widespread reports regarding the violation of human rights, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has urged the Department of State Services (DSS)...
Embattled leader of proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Nigerian and Kenyan governments before the African Commission on...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the license of Human Rights Radio until the station committed to ethical and professional broadcasting. The Acting Director-General of...
The United States Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, said on Friday his country would take “concrete steps in response to gross human rights violations and corruption...
Formula 1 superstar, Lewis Hamilton has aired his support for the #EndSARS movement in Nigeria, asking the world to take action where it can. Nigerian Youths...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday, said the growing culture of attacks on judges over political judgments is gradually eroding the independence of the...
The United Nations has been forced to postpone an anti-torture conference scheduled to be held next month in Cairo, Egypt, over the country’s poor human rights...
The general overseer of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams F. Kumuyi has been lambasted for ‘blindly’ supporting the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Pastor...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has cautioned judges against imposing fines on public interest litigation, stating that they are unconstitutional. In a statement on Sunday, Falana...
Human rights activist and Nigerian lawyer, Femi Falana along with some other human rights activists on Wednesday held a protest at the Gani Fawehinimi Freedom Park,...
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has said tobacco menace is the number one weighing factor to women reaching their full potentials in life....
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the protection of human rights is a cardinal objective of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, has directed all chief magistrates across the country to inspect police detention facilities in their areas on a...
An international human rights group, The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Nigerian government officials have raped and sexually exploited women and girls displaced by...
The Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka has said human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN,...
Authorities in Ethiopia say a probe into the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces during anti-government demonstrations will soon begin but also denied that...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has decried the continuous detention of a blogger, Abubakar Sidiqu Usman, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of lacking respect for human rights....
Ijaw Human Rights Monitor has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to liaise with former President Goodluck Jonathan to bring lasting solution to militancy in Niger Delta...
The United Nations has ordered the deployment of 228 UN police personnel to Burundi as human rights and security situation worsens in the East African country....
Terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the explosion of a large truck bomb which killed at least 50 people in the north-eastern Syrian city of...
By Joseph Edgar…Yes, that is what is on my mind this morning. What does this Senior Advocate really want? His confusing and mixed statements about goings...
A Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed that over 60,000 inmates have lost their lives in Syrian prisons with most of them dying as a...
Indications emerged on Sunday that President Barack Obama of the United States may finally pay a state visit to Nigeria. The New York Times reported that...
The widely talked about anti-social media bill sponsored by Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah (APC, Kebbi South) has been thrown out by the Nigerian Senate. Seen as...
Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has said persons who looted the nation’s treasury and standing trial do not deserve bail. Falana, who was speaking at...
Many Nigerians are upset at the Senate’s rejection of the Gender and Equal Opportunity bill. Not me. I fully expected the bill to be laughed...
Barack Obama of the United States and Raul Castro of Cuba went toe-to-toe over human rights issues even as they both pledged to set aside their...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right...
