Kano Court Sentences 8 Cross-Dressers To 3-Month Imprisonment
A Sharia Court domiciled in the Kano State Hisbah Board in Sharada area of Kano, on Tuesday, sentenced eight cross-dressers...
National Human Rights Commission Speaks On Brutality Against NLC President
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says the brutality meted out to Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigerian Labour...
US Warns Citizens About Lodging in Major Hotels in Abuja, Lagos
The US Embassy in Nigeria warned American citizens on Friday about an elevated threat to major hotels in Nigeria's major...
U.N. Human Rights Lawyer Retires, Calls The Israeli Strikes In Gaza ‘Genocide.’
The director of the New York office of the U.N.’s human rights agency has stepped down, accusing the U.N. in...
Blessed Are The Human Rights Defenders.
MY mind raced back 34 years as I stood on Saturday in the assembly of human rights defenders who had...
Fear Of Epidemic Looms In Police Cells As Courts Reject Remand Suspects In Lagos
Fears of major outbreaks of epidemic loom in Police cells across Lagos State, following the stoppage of intakes of suspects...
Witch Persecution, Sharia Court and Legal Defence in Bornu
The persecution of witches continues because these institutions are moribund. They have failed to fulfill their mission and mandate. These...
Family Of Al Jazeera Gaza Bureau Chief Killed In Airstrike
Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh's wife, son, daughter and grandson were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Oct....
Mass Arrests Target LGBTQ+ People In Nigeria While Abuses Against Them Ignored
Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights...
Spanish Priests Sexually Abused Over 200,000 Children- Commission
Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according...
