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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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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Families Recount Ordeal As Authorities Fail To Act 10 Months After SSS Killed Policeman
Ten months after three officials of the State Security Service (SSS) in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, attacked a police corporal…
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Names Of Lekki Toll Gate Massacre Victims We Have So Far
At a quarter to 7 p.m. on Oct. 20, 2020, officers of the Nigerian Army started shooting at a group…
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#EndSARS: Victims Continue To Suffer As Government Delays Compensation
On Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2011, Christopher Akarewan, a father of four, was shot and killed unlawfully by the police officers…
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Man Petitions Save The Children Over Alleged Preferential Treatment In Borno State
A complaint has been written to Save the Children International over alleged preferential treatment carried out by one of its…
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#EndSARS Survivors Sue Nigerian Government At ECOWAS Court
Three survivors of the Oct. 20, 2020 shootings at Lekki Toll Gate, the epicenter of #EndSARS protests in Lagos, Southwest…
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