NCAC Boss, Runsewe, Hails NDLEA’s Move To Institutionalise Drug Test In Universities
The Director General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe has thrown his weight behind the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) on the later’s idea in urging…
Ill-treatment of Governor Ortom As Opposition Member Worries HURIWA
Leading Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Sunday, condemned the humiliation of Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Saturday by overzealous airmen of the Nigerian Air Force in Makurdi, the state capital. According to…
Okowa Urges Warring Communities Over Boundary Dispute To Embrace Peace
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called on communities embroiled in boundary dispute, which has led to crises and loss of lives to embrace peace to pave way for meaningful development. Okowa made the call on Saturday at the…
Iya Damola and Nigeria’s Yahoo+ Generation
By Prince Charles Dickson The sentence ‘a nut for a jar of tuna’ is the same when read backwards. Ademola Babalola wrote on his FB page last week about his mum… In 1982, I was a Meteorological Observer at the…
Lanre Arogundade: Stop Harassing Activists Putting Buhari on His Toes, HURIWA Tells DSS
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Thursday, told the Department of State Services (DSS) to stop harassing human rights activists who put President Muhammadu Buhari on his toes through critical, objective and active perusal….
Enugu is South East’s Most Peaceful State Due to Gov. Ugwuanyi’s Support to Security Agencies, Says Air Vice Marshal Daramola
…As Chief of Air Staff Lauds Governor’s Commitment The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao, has commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for his administration’s continued support to the Nigerian Air Force and other Military formations…
Court Gives Verdict on Suit Seeking To Remove Matawalle As Zamfara Governor
A Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, has struck out a suit seeking to remove the State Governor, Bello Matawalle, from office. Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state had filed the suit…
Death Of Teen Student, Keren: HURIWA Urges Reps To Begin Probe Of Alleged Rape
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has decried the delay in commencement of the investigative public hearing in the House of Representatives to unravel the circumstances which led to the alleged rape and eventual death of 14 year…
JUST IN: HURIWA Tackles Osinbajo Over Elusive Peace in Southern Kaduna, Carpets Zulum Over Repentant Insurgents
Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has noted that following persistent and unprecedented cocktails of coordinated genocides targeting Christians in Southern Kaduna in Kaduna State of Nigeria by armed Fulani terrorists, the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been…
Group Reacts To Incessant Attacks On NIA DG, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar
Disturbed by what it described as “the incessant mediocre attempts” to diminish the image of the current Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Rufai Abubakar, the Northern Emancipation Network, (NEN) has said that it “is clear to…
Terrorism Fight: Welfare Delivers Efficiency
By Emmanuel Onwubiko For a decade and still counting, Nigeria has had the misfortune to be confronted by the presence of home grown but foreign funded and trained Islamic terrorists including the notorious Boko Haram. Their effects on the entire…
