LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has chided the hierarchy of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for spending the entire four years since the last 2019 general elections preparing for the presidential and legislative elections only to churn out a ‘shambolic, criminally manipulated and anything but…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Thursday, asked the Department of State Services and other security agencies to probe an alleged plot to unleash mayhem on Igbo residents in Lagos if the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu loses the February 25 poll. HURIWA, in a statement…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to return the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas popularly called cooking gas to how he met it in May 2015 when he assumed office. National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, made this known…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Thursday, flayed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for asking the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to begin the process of recovering land from persons who have converted cattle grazing routes for their personal use. National Coordinator of HURIWA,…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called for serious investigation to determine the sponsors of the so-called unknown gunmen in the South-East and South-South. It noted that the agenda may be tenure elongation as a result of eventual state of emergency that may be declared by…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has claimed that the Ebonyi State Government and the police command in the state lied over the detonated ‘bomb’ which killed a policeman on Tuesday. DAILY POST had reported that an explosion occurred opposite Amizi Amangbala Primary School in Afikpo North in Ebonyi State…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civilrights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has expressed shock that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Muhammad Tanko and the hierarchy of the Supreme Court have not reacted to the contemptuous prophecy by Enugu State based Catholic Priest, Fr. Ejike Mbaka. The group claimed his utterance undermined the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the public outcry that greeted the hate speech bill, the Senate President Ahmed Lawan has said the Senate won’t pass the proposed anti-free speech bills. Lawan made the disclosure in response to a detailed written protest letter against the hate speech bill and anti-social media bill before the senate by the…