Tag: Amnesty International
ICC probes military, Boko Haram for war crimes, murder, others
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, says the court has found a reasonable basis to begin investigating members of the Nigerian...
Soldier beats, strips lady naked for indecent dressing in Ogun- Photo
A soldier, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, on Saturday, assaulted a young lady who was dressed in a manner he considered indecent.
The...
Why we massacred Borno rice farmers – Boko Haram
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed about 43 rice farmers in Zabarmari village located in Jere Local...
EndSARS: CNN Retracts 1 of 101 Fake News Identified by PRNigeria
American news-based television channel, Cable Network News (CNN), has retracted its initial report, which claimed that troops of the Nigerian Army killed 38 EndSARS...
CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ”38” Nigerians Being Killed During The...
In an updated tweet, CNN Africa has now come out with a clarification on the number of lives lost during the protest.
CNN Clarifies Its...
In Search Of Lai Mohammed, By Azu Ishiekwene
I have known the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for a long time, I think. Before I got close, I was first...
Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Abiy Ahmed ‘rejects international interference’
Ethiopia has urged the international community to refrain from "unwelcome and unlawful acts of interference" in its affairs following calls to end the conflict...
600 dead in Tigray unrest —Ethiopia rights body
A local youth group aided by police and militia killed at least 600 people in a “rampage” on November 9 in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray...
#EndSARS: CNN dares FG, releases second report on Lekki shootings
Amid threats of sanction from the Federal Government over its investigative report on the shootings at Lekki toll plaza during the #EndSARS protests, CNN...
#EndSARS: Nigeria goes offensive against youth protesting police brutality
Young people staged the biggest anti-government uprising in a generation, triggered by relentless police brutality. Rattled, politicians are promising reforms, but using repressive tactics,...
Ethiopia Tigray crisis: UN warns ‘war crimes’ may have happened
Reports of the mass killing of civilians in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region "would amount to war crimes" if confirmed, the UN human rights chief...
#EndSARS: 20 CSOs fault Amnesty International on Lekki shooting
Twenty civil society organisations have joined the Presidency to fault the report by Amnesty International on the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by the...
Lekki shootings: Amnesty alleges threat to workers’ lives
Global rights organisation, Amnesty International, has alleged that the lives of his employees were in danger following its reports of the Lekki shootings of...
EndSARS: IGP decries discriminatory tendencies exhibited by Amnesty International
...describes the Amnesty Int’l report as untrue and misleading
By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) - The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has decried the...
EndSARS: Presidency says Nigerians who lotted warehouses are not hungry
By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) - The Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has said that the...
Presidency rejects Amnesty International’s report on Lekki shooting
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has rejected the report by Amnesty International on the Lekki shootings.
Adesina, who...
#EndSARS protest: Amnesty International releases timeline of Lekki shooting
International human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has released a new timeline investigating the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza one week...
Nigeria Covering Up Army Killing of Protesters, Amnesty International Says
Nigerian authorities must stop their attempts to cover up the army’s fatal shooting of unarmed protesters last week in the country’s commercial hub, Lagos,...
EndSARS: The Generation That Said ‘Enough’, By Reuben Abati
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The Falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The...
15 persons killed in EndSARS protest, says Amnesty International
At least 15 people have been killed, including two policemen, since protests against police brutality erupted in Nigeria this month, according to Amnesty International...