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HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has advised the National Security Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu to keep political theatrics aside in confronting the matters of National security interest. HURIWA faulted the open display of partisan politics by the NSA for viewing activities of terrorists as mere ‘rivals’ of President […]

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has strongly condemned recent accusations against Dr. Bello Muhammad Matawalle, Minister of State for Defence, calling them unsubstantiated and politically motivated. This rebuttal follows a protest at the Department of State Services (DSS) headquarters in Abuja, where a group of women and youths, purportedly from Zamfara claimed […]

Whilst endorsing the call for an immediate cessation of war in Gaza between Israelis and Hamas fighters as canvassed by president Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President has been urged to also declare immediate ceasefire on his government’s continuous unleashing of intolerably harsh economic hardships on Nigerians. This was even as the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION […]

PRESIDENT TINUBU HONORS OGONI MARTYRS President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to fostering dialogue, reconciliation, and healing among all ethnic nationalities that make up our great nation. In a special message commemorating the 2024 Ogoni Martyrs Remembrance Day, President Tinubu stands in solidarity with the National Youth Council of Ogoni People (NYCOP) […]

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 […]

*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 […]