Rights Monitors

CORRUPTION THREATENS NIGERIA – AND ITS ELECTION by Muhammadu Buhari On February 16th, Nigeria will hold a general election. Four years ago, the country experienced its first democratic transfer of power to the opposition since 1999. The vote in a...

The Rights Monitors has just gathered that crisis is rocking the People Democratic Party over the misappropriation of campaign fund. According to our source, the party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has said to be overburden by the excessive demand of...

Some group of people who claimed to have come together under the name of “Nigerian Elders and Leaders” have considered all those contesting for the office of the president in the forthcoming Nigerian election as unfit and not as qualified...

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEMOCRATIC LAWYERS ( NADL) has faulted both the action of the NJC in the ongoing trial of former CJN for what he termed “lack of exhibition of urgency” and also condemned the NBA leadership for its...

It was mild drama this afternoon as the new Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Kayode Egbetokun, came to take over from Imohimi Edgal only to be told that the scheduled hand over would no longer hold. A brief hand over...

You may not blame the police much because in the reckoning of power desperate politicians, their sponsored over – indulged political thugs are ranked higher than the police in the order of hierarchy protocol. This is the reason police are...

A civil society organization in Nigeria, the Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has condemned in the strongest terms, the reported military takeover of government and dissolution of democratic structures in Gabon today 7th January, 2019 by a...

Sometimes around February 2018, Lagos State government murdered an ordinary citizen, Mrs. Ester Ajayi, at Shomolu General Hospital, with her baby (pregnancy) in her, on the excuse of “No Room for Admission”. The Human Rights Monitoring Agenda (HURMA) volunteered to...

ALLEGED EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION, RIGHTS MONITORS APPLAUD LSHA DECISION, CALL ON AKANDE OF APAPA IGANMU LCDA TO RESPECT THE LAW Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, The Human Rights Monitoring Agenda (HURMA), a body committed to equity and justice...

The immediate past Chief of Staff to Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Chief Tolu Odebiyi, has revealed how he turned down the instruction of the Governor to leave the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for Allied Peoples Movement.  ...