Category: Human right

Mr. Oyetibo, SAN. By Editor-in-Chief. It was Chinua Achebe in one of his books who said: “When you advise the ear to listen and it refuses, when you then cut the head, the ear follows”. So at a time like this, Achebe’s proverb lends credence to all who should be concerned about the critical situation Nigerians find themselves with the ongoing protests by Nigerian youths who are calling for a total reform of the nation’s governance system and a…

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Buffalo Police Cops push down a protester, Gugino. Sourced by The Advocate News. An entire unit of the Buffalo Police Department resigned from their assignments Friday after two officers were suspended amid outcry over video showing officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, according to the Buffalo News and other media outlets. All 57 of the members of the department’s Emergency Response Team resigned from the unit, which responds to riots and other crowd control situations, according to the…

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By Editor. 6/6/2020. The Human Rights Law Service (HURILAWS) and the World Coalition Against Death Penalty (WCADP), in a joint statement signed by HURILAWS programmes coordinator, Collins Okeke and WCADP director, Aurelie Placais have called for a worldwide moratorium on death penalty particularly at this ravaging period of COVID-19 pandemic. The statement released today called on all countries that still use the death penalty to impose a moratorium on death sentences and executions on the ground that fair trials…

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By Editor. 6/5/2020. An international non-governmental organisation, The Press Emblem Campaign, based in Geneva, Switzerland, said 55 journalists have died from the coronavirus disease in 23 countries across Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East. This was contained in a report released by the organisation on Friday ahead of the World Press Freedom Day 2020 scheduled for Sunday, May 3. According to the body, the countries with fatalities were Algeria, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt,…

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Chairman, PTF on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha. By Editor. 18/4/2020. Legal Defence and Assistance Project – LEDAP has  called on the Federal Government and its agencies especially  the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment, the Ministry of Finance and the Presidential Task Force on COVID 19 to display transparency and accountability in the disbursement of palliatives and conditional cash transfer to millions of poor Nigerians to  alleviate the…

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