At least 467 Nigerians lost their lives in four states – Kaduna, Benue, Katsina, and Plateau – between July and August 2024, according to a disturbing...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has written to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) seeking their assistance in securing the release of over 1,000 protesters detained...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has disclosed that it received no fewer than 450 complaints of human rights abuse, and violations during the recently-concluded 2023...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has raised the alarm over a myriad of challenges ranging from “intimidation and assassination” Nigerian journalists face despite being critical...
The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has confirmed the killing of another 12-year-old school girl a few weeks after the country was thrown into mourning...
Between January and November 2021, over 400 cases of human rights abuse in the area of gender based violence (GBV) were recorded in Bauchi state out...
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, (LPPC) has elevated 72 lawyers to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). The LPPC disclosed this in a statement...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought for enabling law for the award of compensations to victims of human rights violations in the country. It...
Clement Sagwak, the security guard allegedly assaulted by the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Danladi Umar, has written a petition to the National...
The families of the ‘Apo 6’ on Wednesday, March 17, approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Independent panel seeking a review of the monetary compensation...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has called on the Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, to change his strategies of dealing with ‘so-called’ repentant terrorists...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel has ordered the police to produce operatives of the disbanded Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Benue. Ripples Nigeria had...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday, February 8, said its panel had commenced sittings on 119 sexual and gender-based violence in seven states and...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has rescued a mentally-ill woman, Laritu Safiyanu, who was kept in a cage for several months by family members in...
The Independent Investigative Panel set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to probe alleged rights violation and other unethical conduct by police operatives has...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday demanded the prosecution of 37 police officers indicted for human rights violations by a Presidential Panel on the...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has set up an 11-man panel to probe allegations of rights violations by operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has submitted the report of the Presidential Investigation Panel on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to the Chairman Police Service...
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana has told the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that contrary to its position, 21 Nigerians were killed and not 18 during the...
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...
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has condemned the continued detention of the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, and Olawale Bakare by the Department of State Services...
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has accused the Nigerian Navy of illegally detaining 67 persons, including a senior Naval officer, Navy Captain Dada Labinjo and four...
Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Chidi Odinkalu has dragged the Commission before a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged plan to...
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has summoned the Chairman of Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB over the invasion of nightclubs and relaxation centres in Abuja....
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has said not less 523 children are currently languishing in different prisons in Anambra State. This was disclosed by the...
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) on Friday demanded that security agencies and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) should investigate and document the recent comments by...
The head of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu, said on Monday that the killings in some parts of the country particularly in Benue...
Ibrahim Idris, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has approved the independent audit of detention cells of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) nationwide, as protests against excesses rage...
Following the controversies that have continued to trail the issue of hate speech over its actual definition, Senator Shehu Sani has asked the National Human Rights...
The detained aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, alleging that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,...
Blames Kaduna govt, security agencies for uncertainty over number of dead, missing persons, lost assets The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday urged the Federal...
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has indicted a former Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan and a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission,...
The travel ban allegedly placed on Governor Ayodele Fayose has taken a new turn as the Ekiti State helmsman has dragged the Buhari-led government before the...
