human rights
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France on Saturday condemned violence in Syria targeting "civilians because of their faith, and prisoners", as a war monitor said more than 500 Alawites have been killed in recent days. A French foreign ministry statement called on Syria's new authorities "to ensure that independent investigations can shed light on these crimes, and that the perpetrators…
27 Feb
UN human rights chief Volker Türk, on Wednesday, issued a strong appeal for the fragile ceasefire in Gaza to hold amid delays to talks between Hamas and Israel on extending the truce into the second phase. Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva on conditions inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Türk condemned the Hamas-led terror…
28 Jan
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reported a dramatic rise in human rights violation complaints, with 355,726 cases recorded in December 2024 alone, compared to 1,147 cases in January of same year. This revelation came during the presentation of the Commission's December 2024 Human Rights Situation Dashboard and year-end review on Tuesday. NHRC Executive…
18 Jan
The Human Rights Advocacy Watch Campaign and the All Women League have expressed their shock and have demanded that justice should be done as a lady, Mrs Gloria Peter Ajine, was brutally murdered while harvesting vegetables on her farm on 15th December 2025. The incident happened at Abeokuta North in Ilewo Orile in Ogun State.…
17 Jan
Human Rights Watch criticised the "worsening" rights situation in Central Asia in a report published this week, saying the region's five ex-Soviet countries had all jailed dissenters and ramped up control on journalists in 2024.
15 Jan
Nigerian academic and human rights law expert, Dr Victor O. Ayeni, has led four Nigerian professors to the University of California, in San Francisco, United States, where he advocated human rights reform in Africa.
6 Jan
Four young Kenyan men who disappeared last month in a spate of abductions targeting government critics were freed on Monday,
1 Jan
Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which it carried out a record number of executions, according to an AFP tally of official reports. The six were executed in Dammam, on the Gulf coast, for having "clandestinely introduced hashish" into the kingdom,…
31 Dec
A United Nations report published Tuesday found that Israeli strikes on and near hospitals in the Gaza Strip had left healthcare in the Palestinian territory on the verge of collapse. The report by the UN human rights office said such strikes raised grave concerns about Israel's compliance with international law. "Israel's pattern of deadly attacks…
31 Dec
Persecution rather that prosecution: In many instances, the real facts of some cases that have found themselves in the dockets of the criminal courts are purely instigated by parties to civil disagreements.
30 Dec
Human Rights have suffered severe crises due to issues and challenges affecting the administration of justice generally but criminal justice to be precise. Such challenges include but are not limited to the following factors
27 Dec
Italy denounced Friday the "unacceptable" arrest of an Italian journalist in Iran, who her employer said was being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Cecilia Sala was detained on December 19 by police in Tehran, the Italian foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that Italy's ambassador, Paola Amadei, had visited her earlier Friday. Foreign…
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The Okpanam community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State was thrown into mourning over the weekend following the gruesome killing of 19-year-old Isioma Nwayilan. The Guardian learned that the late Nwayilan, an auxiliary nursing apprentice, was accidentally hit by a bullet fired by a member of the Okpanam anti-cult group. According to…
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Former Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Sunday, slammed current Senate President Godswill Akpabio for what he described as an attempt to politicise and trivialise calls for a transparent investigation into allegations leveled against him by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Saraki, in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Yusuph Olaniyonu, dismissed Akpabio’s claim that the calls…
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Chelsea boosted their bid to qualify for the Champions League as Marc Cucurella's rocket sealed a 1-0 win over Leicester, while Tottenham fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Bournemouth on Sunday. Cucurella struck in the second half at Stamford Bridge to lift Chelsea above Manchester City into fourth in the Premier…
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Security operatives in Delta State have arrested a member of the Anti-Cult Unit, Philip Chukwuka, 33, for allegedly shooting and killing a 19-year-old girl, Isioma Nwayalani, in Okpanam, a town in Oshimili North Local Government Area, near Asaba. Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama that the tragic incident was reported at 8:30 p.m. by the family…
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President Donald Trump declined in an interview aired Sunday to rule out the possibility that the United States might enter a recession this year. "I hate to predict things like that," he told a Fox News interviewer when asked directly about a possible recession in 2025. "There is a period of transition, because what we're…
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The Deputy Controller of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Owerri, Udoka Prince Chinaka, has called for external support toward enhancing the general welfare of inmates in the facility. He stressed the need for well-spirited individuals and organizations to continually partner with the government in efforts that would guarantee adequate welfare and a conducive environment for…
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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have successfully rescued three kidnapped individuals less than 24 hours after their abduction along the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Ibeju-Lekki. Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama that the victims, Umezulike Joseph, Eze Theodorah, and Rosemary Ogwulu, were abducted on March 7, 2025. The sources said that upon receiving the distress…
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For allegedly defying the order of the Zamfara Government on the ban of political gatherings in the state, a group under the umbrella of Neutral Minds for Nigeria's Political Growth and Development (NMNPGD) has called on the government to arrest an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Sani Shinkafi, for defying the state order that prohibits…
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The Federal Government has officially adopted the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) in Ijagun, Ogun State, as a Federal University. President Bola Tinubu approved the transition on Friday, acknowledging TASUED as a valuable educational asset. The Ogun State Government had invited the Federal Government to take over the institution, which was previously state-owned. In…
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The General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, has expressed his disappointment and frustration after an orphanage home in Rivers State, owned and funded by the state government, rejected a young girl abandoned at his gate. The clergyman took to his social media handle to express his disappointment, saying the father…