Nigeria Poverty Index: PROMAD Blames Governments’ Budgets Without Needs Assessment For Nigeria’s Poverty
PROMAD Foundation, an Abuja-based civic-tech non-profit organisation, has said that the practice of making the government annual budget without quality needs assessment to harness citizens’ voices is responsible for the high poverty rate in the country. This was made known…
Niger Group Reacts To Appointment of Acting NDDC MD, Makes Demands
A Nigeria’s South-southern group under the aegis of the Association for Non-Violence in the Niger Delta (ANND), has lauded the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Obong Umana Okon Umanah, over the appointment of Emmanuel Audu Ohwavborua, as the Acting Managing…
2023: Rights Group Wants NSA Monguno Replaced, Demands Holistic Measures To End Attack On INEC Offices
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Sunday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack and replace his National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno and replace him with a more competent hand to forestall more attacks…
Rights Group TO IGP: Why You Should Arrest EFCC Chairman, Send Him To Prison
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) has backed the call for the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to immediately enforce the Tuesday order of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja committing the…
NGO Donates New Transformer To Abuja Communities in Tungan Kwaso, Dei-Dei, After 15 Years of Darkness
The Ladi Foundation has Flag-off the 2022 Electric Power Project with a donation and installation of Electricity Transformer for the people of Tungan Kwaso, Dei-Dei, in Bwari Area Council of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, who have been in…
Real Reason Nigerian Government Is After Ekweremadu’s Properties – HURIWA
Questions Timing of EFCC’s Action Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has faulted the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which culminated in an interim assets forfeiture order by a Federal…
Sexual Harassments Are Rife Within Nigeria Police, HURIWA Tells IGP, Urges Authorities To Effect Deterrent Steps
Faults IGP Over Step Against Osun Allegation of Rape by Police Woman Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed sadness that the hierarchy of the Nigeria Police Force has not found it necessary to…
Terror Threats & 2023: Why Nigeria Is Making Peaceful Change Impossible, Violent Change Inevitable And Riotously Clearing Road For Emergence Of Biafra Republic, Others – IterSociety
… Nigeria is left with three choices of the Valvet Revolution, the Berlin Wall or the Yugoslav Fragmentation The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) is reacting to recent Nigeria’s Abuja (Federal Capital City) terror warning…
Buhari’s South Korea Trip Insulting To Over 600 Dead Flood Victims in Nigeria – HURIWA
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Monday, said President Muhammadu Buhari insulted over 600 dead victims of ravaging floods across Nigeria with his current trip to Seoul, South Korea for the first World…
Cybersecurity: African Civil Society Organizations Task Governments On Human Rights-Respecting Approach
Representatives of African civil society organizations have called on governments on the continent to promote and advance a human rights-respecting approach in their cybersecurity law and policy-making as cybersecurity issues have the potential to affect peoples’ well-being, rights and other…
2023 Census Postponement Crucial For Free And Fair Elections – HURIWA
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Saturday, said the postponement of the 2023 national population and housing census is vital to guarantee free and fair elections in the 2023 elections. HURIWA’s National Coordinator,…
