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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Kano State Court Sentences Child Trafficking Mastermind To 104 Years Imprisonment
Paul Owne, the mastermind of the trafficking and sale of nine missing children found in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria has…
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US Suspends Attack Helicopter Sale To Nigeria Over Human Rights Concerns
Members of the United States Congress have placed on hold authorisation process for the sale of AH-1 attack helicopters and…
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Insurgency: Nigeria Releases Detainees After 6 Years But Leaves Them Stranded
Over a week after the Nigerian Army released them, former detainees at Giwa barracks lament that they have not been…
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#NnamdiKanu: Sowore Arrested At Abuja Court
Omoyele Sowore, a former Presidential aspirant and the convener of Revolution Now, has been arrested during the trial of Nnamdi…
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Military Court Sentences 2 Soldiers For Torturing Miners In DR Congo
Two soldiers of the national army of the Democratic Republic of Congo known as FARDC have been jailed for torturing…
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Murder In The Lagoon: How Hospital Allegedly Killed Patient By Administering Expired Drug
Adelagun Ronke*, 50, was surrounded by her children and siblings as she was taken into the Ikoyi branch of the…
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Majority of Human Trafficking Victims In Europe Are Nigerians – US report
A report released by the United States Department of States has revealed that the majority of human trafficking victims in…
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‘Borno Govt Forcing Us To Resettle Without Our Husbands’ — Knifar Women Cry Out
Displaced women in Borno, Northeast Nigeria, whose husbands have been in detention indefinitely and without trial for many years, fear…
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#EndSARS: Judicial Panel Compensates Victim’s Family With N10 Million
The Judicial Panel hearing matters on police brutality in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has awarded the sum of N10 million to…
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Students Protest Against Robbery, Rape In Southwest Nigeria
Students of Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, protested against incessant robbery and…
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