PRESS RELEASE: Amnesty International welcomes the release on 10 January 2023 of Oyewole Olumide, Rasheed Tiamiyu, Moruf Adekunle, Taoreed Abiodun, Ikenna Amechi, Afeez Ariyo, Ikechukwu Eze, and...
Residents Stranded as Rivers State Government evicts Elechi Waterfront Community on Saturday, as homes and residents were sacked, demolished at Elechi Phase I, Diobu, Port Harcourt....
The global rights group, Amnesty International, has reacted to the restoration of the social media platform, Twitter in Nigeria. In the reaction posted on Twitter, Amnesty...
Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the safety of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno state, who are at risk of forced resettlement as...
Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation today called on governments to support a UN-led process to regulate the trade in law enforcement equipment, highlighting how...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, has claimed international human right organisation, Amnesty International (AI), has no legal...
International rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, has accused Nigerian security forces of committing a catalogue of human rights violations and crimes under international law in their...
Global human rights body Amnesty International has condemned the Federal Government’s restriction on media agencies to report Nnamdi Kanu’s trial. Recall NewsWireNGR had earlier reported that...
Alarming escalation of attacks, abductions for ransom and frequent killings across Nigeria have left people feeling more unsafe, showing utter failure of the Nigerian authorities to...
Tens of thousands of children in Nigeria are missing out on their education because of the authorities’ ongoing failure to protect schools, particularly in northern Nigeria,...
Global human rights group, Amnesty International has reported that more than 1,500 people died from farmers-herders crisis, and attacks from arms-wielding bandits fast becoming terrorists. Amnesty...
Amnesty International (AI) has said that excessive force and brutal policing by Nigerian security agents led to the death of many Nigerians in 2020. In a...