Human Rights
HumAngle’s Human Rights Desk examines gross human rights violations such as extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary arrests/detention. It also covers issues surrounding press freedom and monitors reports and activities of human rights organisations.
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Neglect Of Late Soldiers’ Widows: Nigerian Military Pensions Board Reacts
The Military Pension Board has reacted to HumAngle’s report on the official neglect of widows of Nigerian soldiers, who are…
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Knifar Women’s Husbands Regain Freedom From Borno Maximum-Security Prison
A total of 550 men, confirmed to be husbands of members of the Knifar Movement, have been released by the…
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#EndSARS: CDD Warns Against Attempts To Discredit Lagos Judicial Panel Report
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), has warned against attempts to discredit the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry…
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MSF Begins New Program To Treat Malnourished Children In Northwest Nigeria
Médecins Sans frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international NGO, has initiated a new program to treat malnourished children in Katsina…
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Forgotten Souls: Widows Of Nigerian Soldiers Hit With Hardship In Army Barracks
Nine years after Oladapo Joseph died as a senior officer in the Nigerian Army, his widow, Bolajoko, continues to suffer…
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Justice Remains Elusive One Year After Police Killed Man Over N50 Bribe
Ayomide Taiwo’s father died a few months after he was born on Sept. 8, 2000 in Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government…
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#EndSARS: 4-person Committee To Look Into Panel’s Report Confirming Lekki Toll Gate Massacre
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Governor, Southwest Nigeria has inaugurated a four-member committee to look into the reports of the Judicial…
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FG Demands Investigation Into Death Of Nigerian Woman In Cote D’ivoire Prison
The Nigerian Government has demanded for full autopsy on the sudden death of Ìtùnú Babalola, a Nigerian sentenced to 20…
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Jailed Without Trial: A Lagos Man’s Search For Freedom
Rasheed Adetunji, 27, with no ‘criminal record’ is picked up by the Police while on his second job as a…
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10 Nigerian Journalists Murdered With Impunity In Four Years
The media space was thrown into sorrow on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, following the report that a Vanguard Newspaper missing…
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