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Minister of Culture is a Youth Corper ―HURIWA alleges

August 25, 2023Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa of serving as a minister while still doing the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme. In a statement on Thursday, HURIWA alleged that years back, Musawa had abandoned her NYSC programme in Ebonyi state […]

HURIWA gives ultimatum to Nigerian govt to arrest Asari-Dokubo or face protest

June 30, 2023Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Nigerian government, for the immediate arrest of ex-Niger Delta agitator, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo. The group threatened that should the Nigerian government refuse to arrest Asari-Dokubu as it demanded, it would mobilise its members to embark on a nationwide protest across all 36 states […]

Disband Hisbah police, it is illegal —HURIWA

January 22, 2020Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has in a statement, called on the Nigerian Government to immediately disband the Hisbah police operating to enforce Sharia laws in the North. The frontline advocacy group, HURIWA, explained that Hisbah was an illegal group that violates the constitutional rights of Nigerians in the North. The statement says: […]

EFCC desperate to nail Shehu Sani to please Buhari –HURIWA alleges

January 4, 2020Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the avalanche of seemingly “sponsored salacious and sexed up tales exported to the media spaces by the agents of the EFCC with the sole aim of soiling the image of the Kaduna born civil Rights Activist Comrade […]

Buhari is hunting Adeleke all over the place, while protecting Shitu and Obono Obla -HURIWA

May 8, 2019Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has condemned what it described as politically motivated persecution of the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and made available to newsmen on Tuesday, HURIWA warned the police about its persistent selective […]