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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Women In Borno IDP Camp Allege Selective Treatment By Officials
A group of women at Dalori II Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camp in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria has alleged that…
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#EndSARS: Families Of Deceased, Wounded Recount Ordeal One Year After Protests
Ayoola Ayedungbe was the first child of his family. His three other siblings saw him as their role model and…
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#EndSARS: Lagos State Police Warn Against Anniversary Protests
Police in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria say they would not allow all forms of protests and demonstrations being planned to…
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Management Ignores Student’s Death, Asks Protesters To Apologise For Causing School Closure
The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, has moved to set up a committee…
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Operations Of Nigeria’s EFCC Raise Concerns Over Human Rights Violations
“When you walk through some estates in Nigerian cities and come across structures marked with spray paint by EFCC as…
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OAU: Students Protest Colleague’s Death Blamed On Poor Handling, Doctors’ Strike
Aisha Adesina, a final year Foreign Language student at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, has died as…
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Sit-At-Home (2): Nigerian Police Illegally Detained Residents For Killings By ‘IPOB Militants’
Chigozie Nebo, 14, would have written the last Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for candidates in their final year of…
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Nigerian Security Forces Kill Two In Shi’ite March
At least two persons were killed in Abuja, Nigeria capital, when soldiers and police allegedly opened fire on Shia Muslims…
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US Government Authorises Sanctions Against Human Rights Violators In Ethiopia
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order allowing the U.S. government to impose sanctions against people found responsible…
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Scores Killed, 30 Injured In Buhari Village Bombing, Air Force Denies Culpability
Several persons were killed and over 30 others badly injured in Buhari village of Yobe state, Northeast Nigeria, as a…
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