Nnamdi Kanu: Your Appeal Amidst Disobedience Is Sacrilegious – HURIWA to Federal Government
Stating that disrespecting the binding judgment of the court of Appeal on the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and appealing at the Supreme Court against the same decision you disrespected amounted to a legal…
Nigeria, Exits, Hopes, And ‘Mobments’
By Prince Charles Dickson In the spirit of Sankara, the Malian singer Oumou Sangaré released a wonderful song, Kêlê Magni (‘War Is a Plague’), in February 2022, which speaks for the entire Sahel: War is a plague! My country might…
Police Lives Matter; All Lives Matter — Says Rights Group
… Demands Non-Kinetic Steps To Stem Tide Of Violent Attacks On Police Operatives Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the indiscriminate violent attacks targeting mostly Police operatives by insurgents from all parts…
NDE Trains 100 In Quick-Fix, Technocultural Crafts In Oyo State
Determined to bring succor to the teeming unemployed and unskilled youths, women and vulnerable in Oyo State, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), has commenced a four weeks training in Quick-Fix Demand Driven Skills Training Scheme and three months Technocultural…
Labour Party Demands Release Of ‘Kidnapped’ Senatorial Candidate Okorie
The Labour Party has called for the immediate release of its Senatorial Candidate in Ebonyi South Senatorial District election, Hon Linus Okorie. Okorie, a former House of Representatives member from Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency in Ebonyi State, is believed to have…
Nigeria 2023 And The Chicken By Prince Charles Dickson
At the beginning of the year, I had promised that for 12 months, In Shaa Allah, I will once a month X-ray the issues around the forthcoming General Elections in the world’s largest black population and sufacracy. This is number…
2023: Rights Group Asks Presidential Candidates To Avoid Ethnicity
Prominent civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writers Association OF Nigeria (HURIWA) has faulted the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and erstwhile Vice President of Nigeria Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on his recent campaigns speech in which he…
HURIWA demands release of Kwara journalists persecuted by Governor AbdulRazaq
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Saturday, demanded the immediate and unconditional release of two Kwara-based journalists persecuted by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, for allegations of defamation. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, described…
Oyebanji Sworn-in As Ekiti State Governor
Former Secretary to the State Government under the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi, Mr Abiodun Oyebanji, has been sworn-in as he has taken his oath of office as Ekiti State Governor on Sunday, October 16, 2022. He was sworn in…
2023: What Nigerians Want In Their Country – Atiku-Okowa’s Spokesman, Aniagwu
Spokesperson of the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Charles Aniagwu has said that Nigerians were not interested in wrangling within political parties but how to get the country back to working ways. Aniagwu who said this while speaking on “Focus…
Further Illegal Detention Of Nnamdi Kanu Is Kidnapping — Says Rights Group
*As HURIWA Accuses Abubakar Malami of Acting the Script of Miyetti Allah Leading Civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop playing the toxic Northern ethnic card and obey the…
