Tag: HUMAN RIGHTS
Judge jails rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong in Uyo
Akwa Ibom Chief Judge Ekaette Obot has 'convicted' a human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong for defending his client in a suit filed by Governor...
Two Nigerian lawyers appointed to probe rights abuses in US
The African Bar Association (AFBA) has appointed two Nigerian lawyers as technical advisers to the International Commission of Inquiry into alleged systemic racist police...
What Halima Abubakar needs to know about virginity testing
Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, on Thursday betrayed her poor knowledge of the female anatomy, saying she does not see anything wrong in virginity testing.
Her...
Fela used musical platform to agitate for human rights, says Bolanle...
Mrs Bolanle Austen-Peters, the founder and operator of Terra Kulture Arena on Sunday eulogized the virtues of the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and...
Court adjourns Evans’ N300m suit against police
A fresh application by the Nigeria Police on Tuesday stalled judgment on the N300m fundamental rights suit filed by suspected kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka...
Kidnap kingpin, Evans, sues police over detention
Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, on Wednesday, filed a fundamental rights enforcement action before the Lagos Federal High Court in Lagos, urging the...
Drug trafficking: Families visit six Nigerians before execution in Indonesia
Families were granted last visits on Thursday as execution loomed for six Nigerians and eight others on death row for drug trafficking in Indonesia.
Ambulances...
Court okays Fani-Kayode’s continued detention by EFCC
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has dismissed an application by former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, seeking the enforcement of his fundamental human...
Apo 8: ECOWAS Court fines Nigeria $3.25 million for extrajudicial killings
The Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday ordered Nigeria to pay $3.25 million in compensation to families and...
The misogynists in the Nigerian Senate, by Reuben Abati
What Senator Biodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti South) did with her presentation of a bill on gender and equal opportunities on March 15, is the...