Pelumi Olajengbesi, an Abuja-based human rights lawyer, says introduction of more disciplinary measures will end extrajudicial killings by police officers in the country. In a statement on Wednesday, Olajengbesi, who
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The Nigeria Police have set up a panel to investigate alleged extrajudicial killings by three officers attached to the Anambra state command. The accused officers are Patrick Agbazue, Nwode Nkeiruka,
Amnesty International has called on the federal government to investigate allegations of extrajudicial killings involving Ebube Agu operatives. The development comes days after reports that seven persons were allegedly killed
The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has accused the Nigerian army of carrying out a genocide in Oyigbo, Rivers state. At the posthumous birthday anniversary
On a breezy morning in March 2019, Ogar Jumbo, an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says Nigeria’s security agencies have killed 18 citizens since the lockdown regulations on the
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has criticsed the federal government for allegedly not taking steps to end the extrajudicial killing
The house of representatives has summoned Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs; and Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the
Danjuma Ibrahim, one of the police officers fingered in the killing of six persons in Apo, Abuja, in 2005, has
Amnesty International (AI), human rights organisation, has alleged that soldiers killed some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in
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