…says if the government is living up to expectations which is to protect lives and property there’ll be no IDPs Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), has said that the reason the camps of Internally Displaced People(IDPs), are scattered all over the country is simply because there is no government in place. Addressing newsmen
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Huge Tax Burden: HURIWA tackles Gov Soludo
…says his anti-poor tax regime has impoverished more residents of the State Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has warned that the Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo’s ‘taxation regime’ is making life unbearable and pushing more residents of the State into poverty. According to HURIWA, Soludo’s ‘utopian’ mindset and policies cannot work for
Read moreLekki Shooting: Why youths must not allow Tinubu become President – HURIWA
Nigerian army stormed the Lekki Tollgate where the angry youths converged and allegedly opened fire on the unarmed protesters The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on Nigerian youths to ensure that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu does not win the 2023 presidential election. The
Read more2 journalists remanded in Kwara, HURIWA kicks
‘An Ilorin Magistrate Court ordered two journalists to be remanded over allegations of defamation brought against them by the governor through his CPS’ The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of two Kwara-based journalists prosecuted for defamation, by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. This was made known in a statement
Read moreAlleged Inflammatory statement, HURIWA calls for Keyamo’s arrest
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has called for the immediate arrest of the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, (SAN) for making what the group described as an incendiary, very dangerous, toxic and absolutely unthinkable statement that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate Mr. Peter Obi was plotting a fake attempted assassination against
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NSPMC Appointment: Buhari may have breached the Constitution – HURIWA
President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of the appointment of Ahmed Halilu as the managing director of Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, NSPMC Plc, may be in clear breach of the Oath of office of the President of Nigeria sworn to by the President before assumption of office if the report that the appointee is the
Read moreHURIWA condemned Umahi over attacks on PDP leaders in Ebonyi
Famous rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Saturday, condemned and faulted Ebonyi state governor, Dave Umahi for allegedly trying to hoodwink the public into believing that the tension brewing up in the state following his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, was the handiwork of chieftains of the
Read moreAba’s problems cannot be resolved without proactive infrastructural revolution – HURIWA tells Gov. Ikpeazu
Despite these lofty promises by the current Abia State administration, there hasn’t been sufficient investment in the city of Aba necessitating concerns that the city , which was previously the industrial and production centre for most of the locally manufactured goods in Nigeria and had customers from not only Nigeria but across West Africa trooping
Read moreMedical Tourism of PMB and his cohorts is a drain to Nigeria economy – HURIWA
Coming against the backdrop of Mrs Aisha Buhari and her daughter as well as the nephew to the President Mamman Daura recent seeking medical care outside the country has drawn the irk of Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) of the inability of the President to stop the medical tourism of himself and his inner
Read moreHURIWA Condemns Police Massacre of IPOB in Emene
The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has called for a judicial commission of inquiry to be constituted by the government of Enugu State South East of Nigeria to investigate the widespread reports that a combined team of Department of States Services (DSS); Military and armed Mobile Police committed
Read moreProtest Chinese Loan Enslavement by Buhari – HURIWA tells Nigerians
…will go to court as well as write world body disassociating the youths from the loans The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy Group; Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) said the new form of economic colonialism foisted on Nigeria by China, occasioned by her Toxic and Enslaving Loan Agreements with Nigeria will enslave the coming
Read moreNew Acting Chairman of EFCC: HURIWA deplores Northernization of security forces
…As Buhari appoints Bala Ciroma as Acting Chairman of EFCC The reported appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari of the federal capital Territory’s logstanding Commissioner of police Bala Ciroma as acting chairman of Economic and financial crimes commission (EFCC) has been described as a continuation of the northernization agenda of the current administration of the hierarchies
Read moreHURIWA To President Buhari, Nigeria Don’t Need A Politicized EFCC Leadership
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint “a capable hand” to head the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. HURIWA maintained that the next Chairman of the commission should be someone who will take the commission out of politics. The rights group made the call while
Read moreStop hide and seek over Magu, HURIWA blasts government
…Condemns government’s peddling of false information relating to MAGU’s arrest and detention The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group-: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has described the arrest and detention of the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu as symbolizing the deeper issues of extensive corruption of staggering
Read moreCOVID-19: Your containment strategy not working – HURIWA tells Buhari
…warns against reopening of schools unprepared for the worst Nigeria’s prominent civil rights advocacy body- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA ( HURIWA) has called out President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s failure to activate workable strategy to contain, combat and flattened the curves of the National Covid-19 infection rate in Nigeria. HURIWA says President Muhammadu Buhari
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