HURIWA Demands Suspension of Nasarawa Professor Over Assault On Daughter’s Friend
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Tuesday, demanded the immediate suspension of an Associate Professor in the Department of History and International Studies at the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Fred Ekpa Ayokhai,…
Kidnapping: Rights Group Asks FG To Constitute Judicial Commission On Alleged Military Collusion
Applauds Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu for Prompt Counter Kidnapping Measures Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Monday, asked the Federal Government to constitute a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate alleged collusion…
Buhari Presides Over Emergency Security Meeting In Abuja As FG Faults US, UK Security Alerts
Amid warning of an imminent terrorist attack on Nigeria, leading to the recent security advisory by the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, presided over the National Security Council meeting at the Presidential…
Nnamdi Kanuʼs Case Can’t Be Resolved Judicially – SDP Presidential Candidate, Adebayo Says
Prince Adewole Adebayo, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has in his reaction to the controversy surrounding the trial of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, noting that given his knowledge of the…
Nigeria: What Security Alerts Should Mean
By Emmanuel Onwubiko When I was in high school at the Kafanchan Teachers College, I began to develop deep interest in international affairs or what was commonly called current affairs. One of the great civilisations that attracted my young mind…
Stop Releasing Terrorists, HURIWA Tells President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has been told in black and white that the major motivating factor for the expanding frontiers of threats of attacks by terrorists in Nigeria and the continuous attacks of soft targets by dare-devil terrorism masterminds is because…
Probe Abdullahi Adamu Over N20bn Party Funds, HURIWA Tells EFCC
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Sunday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu over alleged misuse of party finances to the tune of…
Every Intelligence Is Local: So Is US Security Report On Nigeria
There is a Yoruba adage that says; “ti oju ba f’arabale, a ri imu“, meaning if the eye is calm, focusing downwards in a steady gaze, it will see the nose. The first statement that came out of my mouth…
See Why NDDC Is Cesspool Of Corruption
By Emmanuel Onwubiko The Niger Delta region is Nigeria’s bastion of crude oil resources which accounts for over 90 percent of the nation’s foreign exchange earner but the place from which the Country makes so much financial benefits is one…
Kidnap Of SSG, UNN Students: Ohanaeze Says Soldiers, Police Indicted, Demand Redeployment Of Enugu GOC, CP
… Calls For Detailed Investigation In a dramatic twist of events, the Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called for a detailed investigation into the circumstances surrounding the wave of kidnap incidents along Enugu-Ugwuogo Nike-Nsukka Road. It had reported…
Court of Appeal Stays Execution of Order Releasing IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday, stopped the execution of its judgment that quashed the terrorism charge and ordered the release of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. The the appellate court on…
