Nigeria’s anti-human trafficking agency says it has found that many women, mostly from rural areas, have been trafficked to Saudi Arabia and are trapped there, BBC...
BERLIN, Oct 26 (Reuters) – German authorities are investigating reports that asylum seekers in a Berlin refugee camp were forced into prostitution, officials said, adding that...
Nigerian gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi has vowed to continue his campaign to overturn Nigeria’s anti-gay law. In 2014, Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill which...
Nigeria’s federal government has chosen to declare a war on hate speech. Some of its senior-most officers appear uncertain about the applicable laws. Keen not to...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop various security agencies from further violating human rights in the course...
Founder of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Shiites), Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, held incommunicado since December 13, 2015, following a clash his followers had with the Nigerian...
The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) strongly condemns the murder of Akinnifesi Olumide Olubunmi. Mr. Akinnifesi was attacked by a group of youths in Ondo...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has assured members of the public, as well as the local and international human rights bodies...
Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was yesterday honored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. He was awarded with the Presidential Award in recognition...
Villagers in northeast Nigeria are saying that Nigerian soldiers shot and killed a teacher and two middle-aged men who had been detained. The account comes amid...
Nigerian soldiers may have killed a wife and a son of Nigeria’s foremost Shiite leader, Sheik Ibraheem Zakzaky, in an ongoing military operation against the sect...
Nigeria has voted against a United Nations resolution supporting and protecting people who promote and defend human rights. Samantha Jones, United States Ambassador to the United...