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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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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#EndSARSMemorial: Nigerians Protest Injustice, Meet More Police Brutality
What happened across Nigeria on Oct. 20, 2021, the memorial of the #EndSARS protest against police brutality, showed that the…
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#EndSARSMemorial: Lagos Police Commissioner Apologises, Orders Release Of Arrested Protesters
Hakeem Odumosu, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, has ordered the release of protesters arrested earlier at the…
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#EndSarsMemorial: Nigerian Gov’t Wants Apology From CNN, Amnesty International Over Lekki Shootings
The Nigerian government has demanded an apology from Amnesty international, CNN and Obianuju Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch, over…
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#EndSARSMemorial: Timeline Of October 2020 Protest Across Nigeria
It has been a year since the Nigerian Army deployed soldiers to the epicentre of the nationwide #EndSARS protests at…
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#EndSARSMemorial: Police Release Journalist Arrested For Covering Protest In Southwest Nigeria
A correspondent of Daily Post Newspaper in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, Sikiru Obarayese, who was arrested by police on Wednesday,…
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