*says there’s a sinister nexus between job racketeering and kidnappings: The prominent civil Rights Advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has suggested that there could be a sinister nexus between the spike in kidnappings for ransom all over Nigeria with the widespread commercialization of federal civil service employment slots by key […]
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By Emmanuel Onwubiko The British parliamentary system of government is assumed to be the global reference point in the area of administration of operational funds for the work of law making in such a way that transparency and accountability are deeply enshrined. The law makers of Great Britain are paid by the people of Britain […]
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*Says it is an invitation to war: The prominent civil Rights advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has warned that the proposed bill to legislate the outright pardon of armed terrorists under the guise of deradicalization programme could result in civil war either in the short, medium or long term. The […]
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By Emmanuel Onwubiko The current federal government in Nigeria headed by the Fulani born president Muhammadu Buhari has been accused rightly or wrongly of adopting the policy of favoritism in matters of the raging attacks witnessed in different farming communities by armed Fulani herdsmen. However, what is not in doubt is that the media office […]
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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on February 19th 2020 briefed the media on the need for a DECLARATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS EMERGENCY IN NIGERIA to stop imminent implosion.
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A TEXT OF A MEDIA BRIEFING ON FEBRUARY 19TH 2020 BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) “Hopefully someday in the distant future, it will be possible for the nation to regain the respect of the world in its democratic claims. “ (Professor Wole Soyinka.) Gentlemen of the media, we are […]
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*Accuses NERC of ‘Electricity terrorism’: The prominent civil Rights advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has asked Nigerians to publicly protest the proposed hike in the electricity tariffs as proposed by the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to commence on April 1st 2020. HURIWA has also accused NERC of conniving with […]
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*Commends Sokoto on educational revolution The prominent civil Rights advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has endorsed the decision of governor Aminu Bello Tambuwal to approach multilateral funding agencies to raise a loan of #65.7 billion just as the Rights group praised Sokoto for having a state assembly that is alive […]
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By Emmanuel Onwubiko Years back, in Mafoluku, Lagos in my neighborhood, as it then was, there was this commando style armed robbery operation that happened. As the story goes from the eye witnesses who relayed the information to us then, the gang of armed robbers went from house to house and robbed every occupant of […]
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Pictures taken during the assessment of the landslide scene in Odoro Ikpe and Ibam Edet communities in Ini LGA of Akwa Ibom state. Courtesy of NEMA.
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