HUMAN RIGHTS
Global prison population hits 11.7 million as UN warns of deepening overcrowding crisis
The world's prison population is climbing once again, reaching 11.7 million people in 2023 after a brief pandemic-era dip, according...
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U.S. House Backs Amendment To Withhold All Aid To Nigeria Until Christians Are Protected
The United States House of Representatives has passed a spending bill that would condition half of America's assistance to Nigeria...
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CSOs Call For Release of Whistleblower Nnamdi Emeh
A group of civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on the Federal High Court in Anambra State to honour an...
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Appeal Court Affirms Death Sentence for Self-Acclaimed Cleric Over Ritual Murder of Final-Year Student
ILORIN, NIGERIA – The Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin has delivered a landmark judgment, affirming the death sentence imposed...
Read moreCourt Set To Resume Hearing In Nnamdi Emeh Case As Interpol Denial Deepens Controversy Over Whistleblower’s Detention
The trial of detained Nigerian whistleblower Nnamdi Daniel Emeh is set to resume Tuesday, July 14, at the Federal High...
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Nigeria’s Human Rights History, July 12–18
There is something unsettling about the calendar. Turn to almost any week of the year in Nigeria's modern history, and...
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Man Remanded In Prison After Viral Video Exposed Alleged Abuse Of 18-Year-Old Partner in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested and arraigned a man identified as Emeka Joseph over allegations of domestic violence...
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This Day in History: Remembering the Obafemi Awolowo University Massacre
Twenty-five years ago, in the early hours of July 10, 1999, a death squad numbering an estimated forty members of...
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Court Orders Nigeria Police To Prosecute Sergeant, Pay N200Million For 2021 Killing Of Truck Driver Babai In Osun
The Federal High Court in Abuja has awarded ₦200 million in damages against the Nigeria Police Force over the unlawful killing...
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Irigwe Nation Buries Nine Killed in Kauru Attack, Renews Calls for Justice in Southern Kaduna
The Irigwe Nation on Saturday held a mass burial for nine victims of a June 16, 2026 attack by suspected...
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