Nigerian security agents enforcing the Coronavirus lockdown directive in Nigeria have caused more death that the novel coronavirus within two weeks. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) disclosed. In the report signed by the Executive Secretary, Tony Ojukwu, and made public on Wednesday, the commission assessed the incidents of violation of human rights over the last two weeks. “There were eight documented incidents of extra-judicial killings leading to 18 deaths,” it said. “Out of this...

President Muhammad Buhari has granted presidential pardon to 2,600 inmates of Correctional Centres nationwide, according to the Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbeshola. Aregbesola, who made this known while addressing a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, said that 70 of the inmates would be released from Kuje maximum custodial centre. “After the release of the first face, the committee will continue to meet regularly to consider those who deserve the benefit,” he said. Also...

No fewer than 12 journalists were arrested by police in Adamawa while sitting at the NUJ Press Centre, Yola waiting for any update on COVID-19 in the state, Mr. Ishaka Donald Dedan the state Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists NUJ, has confirmed. Regretting the violation of NUJ sanctity, Dedan said, “The police stormed the NUJ secretariat at about 6 p.m. and  arrested  12 journalists on assignment because they were supposed to brief the...