Showing posts with label HURIWA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HURIWA. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Boko Haram Fighters Rearming, Returning To Sambisa Forest - Report

Members of a faction of Boko Haram are regrouping, re-arming and returning to the Sambisa Forest area, a report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned.

Friday, 27 November 2015

Extra-judicial Killings, Right To Life Of Gunshot Victims in Nigeria




Food For Thought:
‘’First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one to speak for me’’. – Martin Niemöller

Scores of Nigerians die untimely, yearly due to extra-judicial killings usually by overzealous Nigerian security operatives and through gunshot injuries. Aside from the ‘’collateral damages’’ and factual extra-judicial killing of Boko Haram suspects sequel to the ongoing counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in North-East Nigeria, Nigeria’s erstwhile Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, reportedly accused the Nigeria Police Force of being responsible for not less than 7, 108 deaths in the last four years as at December 2012.