By Emmanuel Onwubiko There is a harmattan wind of poverty that has blown across Nigeria since May last year when the Nigerian government blew the whistle for the incessant hikes in the pump price of petroleum. The government also allowed the free fall in the value of naira to foreign denominated currencies of the western […]
HURIWA endorses NLC’s accusation of fuel marketers of inflating costs
*Says incessant fuel price hike is an agenda of government to empower elites only: Civil Rights advocacy Group: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has lamented that emerging statistics have now demonstrated that the incessant hikes in the pump price of fuel was simply this government’s selfish agenda to empower elites who may have […]
HURIWA DEMANDS REASSIGNMENT OF HOUSING MINISTER TO APC’S HEADQUARTERS OR WARD IN KANO STATE
As the newly appointed minister of State, Housing and Urban Development, Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, had said that his mission is to deliver Kano state to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027, the pro-democracy advocates: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has asked the President to dismiss him from the federal ministry of Housing […]
TAX REFORM BILLS SHOULD BE DECIDED ON MERITS, BENEFITS, NOT ON REGIONAL POLITICS: HURIWA TELLS NORTHERN ELITES
Even as the members of the National Assembly are currently divided alongside regional cleavages over the contested Tax Reform Bills introduced by President Bola Tinubu-led administration, the Northern governors and Senators are called upon to focus their attention on economically liberating, empowering the masses of the people of the north to become producers and consumers […]
HURIWA TO COORDINATING MINISTER OF THE ECONOMY: NIGERIANS ARE STARVING, AFRAID TO PROTESTS FOR FEAR OF EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS BY POLICE:
Leading civil Rights advocacy Group: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has debunked the claim by the coordinating minister of the Economy and finance Mr. Wale Edun that Nigerians are enduring the hardships inflicted by the intolerably harsh economic policies of devaluation of the Naira and the incessant hikes in the pump prices of […]
ADMISSION BY DHQ OF INTELLIGENCE FAILURE FOR INCURSION OF NEW TERRORIST GROUP UNFORTUNATE: HURIWA SAYS:
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged by the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) to pay closer attention to maintaining fool-proof security of the nation’s borders because any nation that fails to safeguard her borders has unwittingly degraded her Sovereignty. HURIWA lamented that the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) had openly admitted not getting the […]
HURIWA Petitions National Assembly On ‘Commercialized Law Enforcement’
In a firm appeal for reform, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the National Assembly to enact legislation targeting what it describes as the “commercialization of law enforcement” in Nigeria. During a recent press conference, HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, outlined the organization’s concerns about police extortion, illustrating the […]
NEW ARMY CHIEF MUST BE BROADMINDED AND CARRY EVERYONE ALONG:
Following the Nigerian government’s confirmation of the death of the Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, the incoming Chief of Army staff Lieutenant General Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede has been tasked to avoid undue tribalism that was prevalent during the tenure of the demised Chief of Army Staff and to implement open door […]
BOMBING OF ORLU MARKET SHOWS THAT IMO STATE IS NOW A KILLING FIELD: HURIWA SAYS
*Wants kidnapped Catholic Priest freed immediately * Prominent civil rights advocacy group:HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned the unprecedented killings of Imo state residents by both well armed non-state actors and armed state actors which the group said has become widespread and bloodied due to a failure of political leadership and the […]
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PASSING OF CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, LT. GENERAL TAOREED ABIODUN LAGBAJA President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, regrets to announce the passing of Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, Chief of the Army Staff, at age 56. He passed away on Tuesday night in Lagos after a period of illness. […]
