Nigeria: Torture and Impunity still widespread 4 years after passage of Anti-Torture Act -AI
June 26, 2022 … Says those who testified at #EndSars judicial panels yet to receive the justice they deserve Four years after the passage of the 2017 Anti-Torture Act, Amnesty…
AI says over 112 killed in Kaduna, Plateau States in one month, charges FG on protection of lives
August 11, 2021 Amnesty International says at least 112 persons have been killed and about 160 kidnapped following bloody attacks in Kaduna and Plateau states within the last one month….
Nigeria’s security forces killed at least 115 in southeast this year- Amnesty
Aug 6, 2021 Security forces killed at least 115 people in southeast Nigeria this year and arbitrarily arrested or tortured scores of others in response to violence from separatists agitating…
Seven years on, AI renews call for rescue of Chibok schoolgirls still missing
April 14, 2021 Seven years since Boko Haram gunmen seized 276 girls aged between 12 and 17 from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State calls have…
Nigeria’s military razed villages in war against insurgents – Amnesty International alleges
Nigeria’s military burned down villages and forcibly displaced hundreds of people in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the country’s northeast, rights group Amnesty International alleged on Friday. Nigeria’s military,…
Amnesty condemns killing of CAN Chairman, says Nigeria must redouble efforts to rescue the hundreds of civilians still detained by Boko Haram
Human rights group, Amnesty International has condemned the killing of Reverend Lawan Andimi by Boko Haram insurgents. The clergyman, who was abducted by the insurgents in early January,…
BMO Dismisses Amnesty’s report on Herders- Farmers Clash As Mischievous
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has accused Amnesty International (AI) being mischievous in its report, to create the impression that the Herders-Farmers clash is either a three-year old conflict…
Rights groups accuse military of ‘horrific’ killings of Shiites, place toll at 45
Human rights campaigners on Wednesday accused Nigeria’s security forces of killing dozens by using “horrific” force during a crackdown on protesting supporters of an imprisoned Shiite cleric. Amnesty International said…