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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Police Fire Teargas, Firearms At Shiite Protesters In Nigeria’s Capital
Nigeria Police officers on Monday fired teargas and firearms to disperse members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) who were…
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NIS Moves To Combat Human Trafficking, Smuggling Through Benin-Nigeria Border Routes
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has moved to tackle human trafficking, smuggling, illegal migration and other cross-border crimes through illegal…
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Police Brutality: Woman Alleges Police Killed Her Husband, Tortured Her Over N200
Adebimpe Sobowale, a widow and mother of two has alleged that she was tortured and detained for four days by…
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Court Grants Sowore Strict Bail Conditions
A Magistrate Court in Wuse, Abuja, has granted bail to Omoyele Sowore, rights activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, on…
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Amnesty International Condemns Sowore’s Delayed Release
A global human rights organisation, Amnesty international has chided the Nigerian government over the delay in releasing Omoyele Sowore, convener…
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#EndSARS: Lagos Budgets N15 Billion For Rebuilding Destroyed Properties
Lagos State Government says it has earmarked N15 billion for Rebuilding Project/Trust Fund in the 2021 budget following the destruction…
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ENDSARS: How We Were Tortured, Forced To Implicate Saraki In Offa Robbery Incident – Petitioners
Two petitioners at the Kwara State Judicial Panel of Enquiry investigating cases of police brutality in Ilorin, the state capital…
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Sowore, Four Others, To Remain In Detention Till January 8
A Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the case filed against Omoyele Sowore, activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters,…
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Group Takes Nigerian Govt To United Nations Over Sowore’s Continued Detention
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) said it has sent a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on…
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Nigerians Demand Release of Sowore, Other Activists, Arrested On New Year’s Eve
Many Nigerians have continued to condemn the unlawful arrest of Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, and other activists who…
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