HURIWA
4 Jun 2020
Nigeria's Budget Office on Thursday denied allocating N27 billion for the renovation of the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. “The provision for renovation/retrofitting of the National Assembly (NASS) Complex in the revised budget is N9.25bn, not N27bn as being bandied around,” director-general for the budget office Ben Akabueze said in a statement. “The initial provision…
4 Jun 2020
The nation yesterday woke up, yet again, to the news of killings by bandits, this time in Kaduna State.
4 Jun 2020
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the Federal Government’s slashing of the 2020 budgetary allocations for basic health care from N44.4 billion to N25.5billion...
3 Jun 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration and the National Assembly's leadership headed by Ahmad Lawan...
3 Jun 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described the reported reorganization of the Nigerian Police Force as cosmetic and deceptive.
2 Jun 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) said it was worried that the police may scuttle and muddle up the investigations of the circumstances and the persons responsible for the dastardly sexual violation and gruesome murder of the 100 level Microbiology Student of the University of Benin Miss. Vera Uwaila Omozuwa last week due to political pressure.
31 May 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu to immediately constitute a team of investigators and speedily bring the perpetrators of the killer of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100 level Microbiology student of University of Benin, by unknown persons, in a church in Benin City to book.
29 May 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has lamented that the current government has dragged Nigeria backward in terms of all identifiable human development indices by about 60 years or more.
28 May 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has lamented that the stench of corruption massively felt in the National Assembly and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is so staggering that Nigeria may need to set up an independent judicial commission of inquiry to investigate allegations and counter allegations of large scale heist of public fund.
HURIWA writes IGP, Enugu Governor over alleged dispossession of ancestral lands by traditional ruler
28 May 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu and the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on behalf of Anakaedo and Obangene families of Ibagwa Nike community in Enugu over alleged dispossession of their ancestral lands by their traditional ruler, Igwe Emmanuel Ugwu.
28 May 2020
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has sued the Federal Government over the appointment of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Board of Trustees.In the suit, the plaintiffs, Emmanuel N. Onwubiko and Oniengieofori George
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