A Kaduna State High has ordered the release of the wife of the Shiite leader in Nigeria, IBRAHIM EL-ZAKZAKY, for Covid-19 treatment. Justice GIDEON KURADA has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Service to evacuate ZEENAT EL-ZAKZAKY to an isolation centre. The order was made five days after the spokesman for the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IBRAHIM MUSA, told…
It has been revealed that ninety-eight dead bodies were recovered in Lagos State during the violent disruption of the EndSARS protest in October. Human rights law, FEMI FALANA, said that only about twenty of the dead bodies have been claimed by relatives of the victims, two months after the riots. FALANA said more than seventy are still…
• Man freed after 7 years imprisonment on false accusation The human rights community in Nigeria took out time yesterday to observe International Human Rights Day. In Abuja, the National Human Rights Commission staged a walk on the streets to highlight the importance of the day. Also in Abuja, members of the Nigerian Bar Association held a…
Human Rights lawyer, FEMI FALANA, says the investigating of the shooting of protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos State is not a matter for a judicial panel of inquiry. FEMI FALANA said what is required is for the activation of the Corona Law that exists in Lagos State for a Corona’s Inquest because of the…
One of Nigeria’s respectable clerics, Pastor ENOCH ADEBOYE, has endorsed the protests against police brutality across the country. The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God quoted from the Bible that daughters will not be able to prophesy and young men will not see visions if they are not kept alive. He said his church…