If you have ever had the strength to challenge a Nigerian to a discourse on their complacency in the systemic oppression of LGBT+ Nigerians, then you’ve at least once had this retort fired back at you, “I don’t care what LGBT+ people do, just keep it away from me.” If you are an LGBT+ person... Read More

gay rights, Homophobia, human rights violation, LGBT+, violence

March 3, 2021

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‘Human rights violation of the LGBT+:’ Are you playing your part?

“I don’t have a problem with gay people, just don’t bring that thing near me.” This is a go-to comeback in many a social media exchange with people who “don’t agree with” what they often and very erroneously tag ‘a lifestyle,’ when what they mean is an essential part of the humanity of Lesbian, Gay,... Read More

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January 3, 2020

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It’s 2020 and NDA cadets shouldn’t be bullying helpless citizens, except we are a lawless country

For Nigerians, the abuse of power by the Nigerian army and the humiliating treatment of everyday persons whom they find offense with has not only been normalized but is considered a necessary kind of violence they are almost never held accountable for. With the country still reeling from the dictatorial symbol, the military stood for... Read More

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December 4, 2017

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#EndSARS: Police IG orders immediate restructuring of SARS

As calls for the scrapping of the Nigerian Police Special Unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) intensifies, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate re-organisation of the notorious unit. Why it matters: Nigerians took to Twitter to start a trend after several stories of SARS intimidating and killing innocent Nigerian youth became more disturbing... Read More

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November 8, 2017

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No Boko Haram suspect was forced to drink urine – Army

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday denied forcing the 486 Boko Haram suspects arrested on their way from Jigawa to Port Harcourt on June 15, 2014, in 33 buses to drink urine. Army witness, Maj. Chudi Aniukwu, stated this in Abuja when he testified before the Presidential Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violation. Aniukwu, who was... Read More

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October 4, 2017

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Charly Boy files N500m suit against FCT Police for human rights violation

Nigerian musician, Charles Oputa also known as Charly Boy Wednesday, filed a suit against the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command before the FCT High Court Maitama, Abuja over the alleged violation he faced alongside other Resume or Resign protesters on the August 8, 2017. Joined as respondent in the motion he filed by his... Read More

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Charly Boy, Concerned Nigerians, FCT Police, human rights violation, Our Mumu Don Do

June 16, 2017

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Human rights violation: UK, US reportedly retract visas for top military officers

The US embassy and British high commission in Nigeria have reportedly withdrawn and denied entry visa to some serving and retired officers of the Nigerian army. According to THISDAY, this was disclosed in a report of an army panel set up to investigate alleged human rights abuse levelled against the military by Amnesty International (AI). While... Read More

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May 8, 2016

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Abuja court orders EFCC to pay N10m to Austrian

For at least the third time in 2016, a Federal High Court has awarded damages of up to N10 million against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for unlawfully detaining suspects who are under investigation. Since the advent of the All Progressives Congress led government and its feverish war against corruption, the EFCC has assumed... Read More

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APC, Buhari, EFCC, human rights violation, million, PDP, Tinubu, Uche Seconus

July 20, 2015

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Oby Ezekwesili: The formulation of Human Rights Violation as an International Crime

The singular act of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights fifty years ago without a dissenting voice, and the subsequent plethora of other Human Rights conventions and treaties in the past decades evidence the level of recognition that the global community has given to the “universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated ” rights... Read More

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