‎S. 2 (B) (xi) of the Anti-Torture Act of 2017 specifically identified as an act of torture inflicting shame by stripping a ...

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the arrest and continued detention of activist, Omoyele ...

The petition, obtained by SaharaReporters on Thursday, was submitted by a sitting Council member, Dr. Muttaqha Rabe Darma, who called for an immediate investigation into what he alleged as a ...

The Take-It-Back (TIB) Movement has announced plans to picket state commands of the Nigeria Police Force across the country on Friday, to demand the immediate and unconditional release of the detained ...

The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has strongly condemned the “unjust detention and assault” of human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele ...

Nigeria may face breakup before the 2027 general elections if sweeping constitutional reforms are not implemented, former Minister of Information and ex-President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief ...

“Operation Safe Corridor, a deradicalisation rehabilitation and reintegration programme in Mallam Sidi, Gombe State, has so far graduated over 2600 low-risk former combatants, providing them with ...

A civil society organisation, Social Crusade for a Sane Society, has issued a strong warning to Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, over the continued detention of human rights ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has labelled the arrest and detention of human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, as yet another episode in a troubling pattern of ...

Two human rights groups, the Moshood Abiola Vanguard for Democracy (MAVD) and the Edo Civil Society Coalition for Human Rights (EDOCSCHR), have condemned in the strongest words the detention of ...

In a similar development, SaharaReporters previously reported that Ghana's Defence Minister, Edward Omane Boamah, and the Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, ...

In an apparent move to quell rising outrage within the Nigeria Police Force, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has approved another round of promotions, following widespread backlash ...