The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) disputed on Saturday the police’s account of Wednesday’s raid on its headquarters in Abuja. Contrary to the claim by the police that their operatives only visited a bookstore within the same building as the NLC to arrest a foreign national, the labour union said the invading police officers forced their … Read more
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has condemned the killing of 16-year-old Isma’il Muhammed by a soldier during the #EndBadGovernance protest in Zaria, Kaduna State, on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Nigerian Army admitted that the boy was killed by one of its soldiers. In a statement posted via its X handle on Friday, the NHRC … Read more
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over the spike in the number of cases of violations reported in June. “For the month of June, we have received an unprecedented number of 106,604 complaints. This increase is disturbing but not unexpected,” said the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Anthony Ojukwu, during the sixth … Read more
