The AI was reacting to the #OccupyLekki protest where the security agencies had vowed to resist any attempt to embark on a peaceful protest in the state. You May Also Like Lekki Shooting: FG Asks Amnesty To Prove Its Claims Or… Global rights group, Amnesty International, has urged the Federal Government to protect the right … Read more
The federal government has demanded that Amnesty International (AI) substantiate its assertion that 12 persons were killed during the shooting at Lekki toll gate. Recall that security operatives believed to be men of the Nigeria Army had, on October 20 last year, stormed the toll gate, which was one of the grounds for the #EndSARS … Read more
Global human rights group, Amnesty International, on Saturday, condemned the arrest and subsequent arraignment of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and four others. In a series of tweets on Saturday, it also called for the immediate release of the activists and demanded that the charges against them be quashed. Read also: Police Fail … Read more
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says some human right organisations and international court of justice (ICC) are conspiring to worsen the security challenges in the country. Ekohotblog reports that Mohammed disclosed this at a press conference on Monday. He said Nigeria effort to address insecurity and defeat Boko Haram and other criminal elements is being … Read more
Global human right group, Amnesty International, says the arrest of Sahara reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and other activists amounts to violation of the Nigerian constitution. Ekohotblog had reported how security operatives apprehended Sowore on new year’s eve for staging a peaceful protest over state of the nation. In a statement on Sunday, Amnesty International demanded … Read more
Amnesty International has lauded the planned probe of the Nigerian military by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Eko Hot Blog had reported that the Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda on Friday called for an inquiry into the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity especially in Nigeria’s Northeast by the military. In a statement … Read more
EKOHOTBLOG, 10TH DECEMBER, 2020 The Defence Headquarters has denied accusation of committing crimes against older people in the North East, levied by Amnesty International (AI), the army tagged the report as blackmail. In a statement on Wednesday, The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche said there were contractions in the report. Part of the … Read more
Amnesty International, on Sunday, claimed 10 women working in the Kwashaba rice farm in Borno State where members of the Boko Haram terrorist group slaughtered 43 persons, are still missing. Amnesty disclosed this in a tweet on Sunday. The organisation also stated that 16 out of the 43 farmers that were killed were Internally Displaced … Read more
Global rights organisation, Amnesty International, has alleged that the lives of his employees were in danger following its reports of the Lekki shootings of October 20, 2020. Amnesty, in a statement on Friday, said some faceless groups issued threats to attack its workers and office premises. It, therefore, called on the Nigerian authorities to “to … Read more
NOVEMBER 6, 2020 Human rights group, Amnesty International has raised an alarm over threats to staff in Nigeria but said irrespective of the development, it will not back down in its fight against injustice. “Amnesty International draws the attention of the Nigerian authorities and the general public to the intimidation and outright threats of attacks that … Read more
Ekohotblog, 30th October, 2020 Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina says the Presidency on Thursday rejected the reports of Amnesty International (AI) on the #EndSARS and bloody Lekki Shootings, describing it as “misleading and inaccurate”. Making an appearance on Channels Television daily program ‘Sunrise Daily’, he said the notion that … Read more
The Presidency has said Amnesty International does not run the country and was wrong in its report on the movement of military men from the barracks to Lekki Tollgate, where peaceful #EndSARS protesters were shot at on Tuesday, October 20. Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media & Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, said this … Read more
Ekohotblog, 28th October, 2020 Amnesty International have responded to the recent claims by Federal Government, State Government and Nigerian Army, of not being part of the massacre at Lekki Toll Gate. The Nigerian Government doesn’t believe that what happened at Lekki toll Gate was their fault, which is why the Amnesty International responded on … Read more