HURIWA
2 May 2017
The Trans-Africa Student’s Initiative (TRASI AFRICA) has presented the African Distinguished Personality Award to the Founder and National Coordinator of the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), Emmanuel Onwubiko.
1 May 2017
A pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on the Federal Government to nullify the recent enlistment...
25 Apr 2017
A pro-Democracy and civil rights body, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onoghen to ensure that the subsisting intra-party...
25 Mar 2017
A pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has warned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to avoid interventions in civil crises and mass murders that paints his leadership as deeply partisan and discriminatory.
13 Mar 2017
A pro-democracy and Civil rights body, Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA), says the belated decision by the Army’s headquarters to investigate the Amnesty International’s report on the killing of over 200 members....
16 Feb 2017
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has strongly criticized the recent directive by the Ministry of Finance to hike duties and taxation on essential drugs being imported into the country.
7 Feb 2017
“The current hierarchy of the Nigeria Police Force has sadly returned the policing institution to the late Sani Abacha’s infamous police state characterized by excessive use of force...
3 Feb 2017
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) have condemned the stoppage by the Lagos State Police Command of the February 6 protest to be led by popular artiste,.....
27 Jan 2017
The suspects are: Bekewei Agbojule, aka Prince Yellow, 29; Philip Kakadu, aka General Kakadu; Romeo Council, aka Raw; and Totki Okoda, 34.
25 Jan 2017
A civil rights group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately send the name of Justice Walter Onoghen to the Senate for confirmation as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).
15 Jan 2017
The group stated that it poses grave dangers to the survival of multi-party democracy in the country. It therefore wants the President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly to wade in by enforcing the constitutional provision against...
28 Dec 2016
The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described as a monumental injustice the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari, through his Justice minister Abubakar Malami, to parade masked witnesses against
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