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A government crackdown in two regions of Cameroon where English-speaking separatists are campaigning for an independent state has inflamed the crisis, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. In a 37-page report, the human-rights watchdog said it had catalogued unlawful killings, destruction of...

The Defence Headquarters has responded to the allegations of sexual offences levelled against the military by Amnesty International. Addressing a news conference on Friday in Borno State, the Director Defence Information, Brigadier General John Agim, warned that the military would … Read...

Amnesty International has accused Nigerian security forces of raping thousands of women and girls at the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in the country. The Nigerian Military had announced that it had received credible intelligence report of a plan by the Amnesty International (AI)...

The Federal Government has faulted the report by Amnesty International alleging human rights violation by Nigerian military and other security agencies. It said the report is inherently battling with credibility and falling vehemently short of evidential narration....... Read more via The...

In 2017, Nigerian security forces carried out widespread human rights abuses such as extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests, mass detention in sub-human facilities, attacks on the media and journalists, violent crackdown on peaceful protesters, and forced evictions, Amnesty International...

The Nigerian Air Force has denied claim by Amnesty International, AI, that it used its aircraft to kill some residents of some villages around Numan during the December 4 crisis in the area. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2rOp44h Get More Nigeria Metro News

Amnesty International has claimed that clashes between farmers and herdsmen have claimed at least 168 lives in 2018 alone. In a statement on Monday, Osai Ojigho, country’s director of the organisation, called on the government to find a lasting solution to the crisis. “The Nigerian authorities’...

Amnesty International (AI) has said that it is investigating the clash between the Nigerian Army and the members of the Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Umuahia, Abia state. AI, in a statement on Friday by its Director in Nigeria, Osai Ojigho, said it was deeply concerned...

Amnesty International rights organisation, Amnesty International has called on the Federal Government to give priority to the speedy rehabilitation and counselling of the 82 Chibok schoolgirls recently released from Boko Haram captivity. The organisation made the recommendation in a...

The protest against Amnesty International, AI, which has continued for three days now has taken a new dimension with the protesters displaying a red coffin bearing an inscription, ‘RIP’ in front of the Amnesty international organisation’s Abuja office. The protesters insist that the Amnesty...

Amnesty International in its 2016/2017 report published on Tuesday, alleged that 240 persons, including 29 babies, who were fleeing from the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State, were arrested by the Nigerian Army and died in military detention in the last one year. The report partly read...

Amnesty International has released a video claiming that 150 IPOB members were shot by teh Nigerian army during a peaceful demonstration.

A Nigerian national, Chijioke Stephen Obioha is set to be executed in Singapore on November 18, 2016, Amnesty International reported on Thursday. Mr. Obioha was sentenced to death on December 30, 2008 after being arrested on April 9, 2007 for the possession of cannabis. He was found with over...

Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian military of taking measures to cover up its troops’ massacre of Shiite Muslims in Zaria, Kaduna State last December. In its latest report, the international human rights and advocacy organization gave a detailed account of the Nigerian military’s...

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, has asked countries keeping Nigeria's stolen wealth to quickly reject and return the funds so as to prove their rejection of corruption. The chairman claimed that the funds being stolen and stashed abroad by...