Russia Releases Brittney Griner In Prisoner Swap With US
Russia on Thursday confirmed that it had exchanged US basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been jailed in Russia, for notorious arms trafficker Viktor Bout, who was serving a 25-year sentence in the United States. “On December 8, 2022, at…
Rights Group Asks IGP To End Injustice Against Alaba Market Trader
Prominent civil rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked the Inspector General of Police Alhaji Usman Alkali Baba to direct his Deputy Inspector General of Police (FCID) Mr. Johnson Babatunde Kokumo not to undermine an…
2023: Court Dismisses Suit Challenging Tinubu’s Candidacy
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the case challenging the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2023 Polls. A statement by the Director, Media & Publicity, APC Presidential…
N5.6bn Alleged Fraud: HURIWA Wants Immediate Arrest of Ex-NIRSAL MD, Aliyu Abdulhameed
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called for the immediate arrest of the allegedly dismissed Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Aliyu Abdulhameed over alleged N5.6…
Fake Lawyer Bags 7-Year Jail Term, To Pay NBA N50, 000 Restitution
The Magistrate Court in Ota, Ogun State in South West of Nigeria, presided over by His Worship, L.O. Oke on Monday convicted a fake lawyer, Mr. Okoye Samuel Chukwuemeka who was parading himself as “Chime Kingsley Ifeanyi”. The court sentenced…
Number of Weekend Kidnap Victims in Buhari’s Home State Rises To 46 As Terrorists Say No Old Naira Notes For Ransom
Number of Kidnap victims of weekend attacks by gunmen suspected to be terrorists in two separate communities in Batsari and Funtua local governments in President Muhammadu Buhari home state, Katsina State, at the weekend, has risen to no fewer than…
Mosque Attack In Buhari’s Home State: How Terrorist Left Imam Shot, 13 Abducted, 6 Rescued – Police
The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the rescue of six victims out of 19 worshippers abducted by terrorists around 7.40 pm on Saturday from a mosque at Maigamji community in Funtua Local Government Area of the state. The 19…
2023: At Last Obi/Baba-Ahmed Release 62-page Manifesto With 7-point Priority Agenda
Ahead of the forthcoming Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi and his vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have finally released their long-awaited 62-page campaign manifesto with a 7-point priority agenda. The document was titled,…
Al-Mustapha: Boko Haram, a Plot for the Plundering of Nigeria?
Boko Haram and Political Treachery: the Borno Model for Oyo State, Southwestern Nigeria Conquest was the introduction to my promise to reveal the economic dimension for personal and group gain of those who are tormenting us for their profiting; hiding…
CSOs Ucover Plot By Foreign Media To Villify Nigerian Army, Portray Terrorists As Victims, Tasks International Community on Sinister Move
A Coalition Of Civil Society Organisations drawn from all across Nigeria and led by the Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA), has said that they have privileged information on a sinister plot by some foreign media stoking the embers…
COAS Tasks Military Officers On Integrity, Worthy Character
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya has urged the 2022 Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) of the Nigerian Army Merit Awardees to be ambassadors of integrity and worthy character. Faruk said this on Thursday in Abuja,…
