Category: EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO’S COLUMN

A Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned the appointments of MOSLEMS as ministers of Interior and Defence in a heterogeneous and multireligious society like Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari since winning elections for two consecutive tenures. HURIWA described concentration of the Defence appointments in one religion as breaching section 42(1) […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has been challenged to personally oversee an investigation into allegations of undue interferences and active undermining of the mandate of the presidential committee on recovery of public property made against the vice president Professor Yemi Osinbanjo and erstwhile justice minister Abubakar Malami (SAN) by the suspended head of the panel- Mr. Okoi […]

The prominent pro-democracy and civil rights advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has warned of the dire consequences of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s consistent misuse of his powers to use the armed security forces to emasculate civil rights of Nigerians. The Rights group stated this in a statement by the National […]

“The decision of the anti-graft agency- Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to act as the political hatchet machine of the ruling party- All Progressives Congress (APC)  by going all out against the brother-in -law and legal counsel of the leading opposition figure  Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the erstwhile Chairman of the Independent National Electoral […]

The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA)has stated that If the story trending in the news is anything to go by concerning the sack of the ethically challenged Chairman of the Special Presidential Panel on Recovery of Public property Obono Obla following a spate of accusations of corruption and […]

A prominent pro-democracy and civil Rights advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has accused the embattled Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Modibbo Kawu of exhibiting extreme Igbo phobia and for waging a relentless but illegal campaign of Ethnic cleansing through subterfuge of top Igbo  born public servants in that federal […]

The prominent civil Rights advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned as primitive and brutish the armed police attacks of unarmed civilian protesters in Lagos this morning. HURIWA has demanded the immediate release of all those arrested at the Lagos protests.  It has vowed to drag the police boss to […]