By CrossRiverWatch Admin Men of the Nigerian Police Force has forcefully dispersed peaceful #June12 protesters in Calabar. They protesters were peacefully exercising their fundamental human rights before trips of Policemen numbering over 50 in over 7 Hilux van, masked appeared and fired teargas severally at the protesters. As at the time of filing this report,
By Henry Ojelu, Vanguard Newspaper In the face of the continued assault on the constitutional rights of Nigerians, one civil society organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has remained resolute in the fight against all forms of such violations. Through its numerous advocacy projects, partnership and litigations, the organisation has continued to live up
By Henry Ojelu, Vanguard Newspaper The Nigeria Army, Police and State Security Service continued to torture and ill-treat detainees throughout the year 2019. Communal violence continued in some parts of the country. Freedoms of assembly, association and expression were all under attack as the country witnessed an increasing shrinking of civic space. The government also
By CrossRiverWatch Admim Some African human rights groups have called for a reform of Nigeria’s criminal justice system to rescue the people from arbitrariness and denial of fundamental rights. They said the system, as it is currently, is corrupt and subjects the people to arbitrary arrests, illegal detention and an erosion of their fundamental human
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Human rights activist and social influencer, Comrade Deji Adeyanju has disclosed that “We are submitting a petition against the Governor of Cross River State to the National Human Rights Commission tomorrow (Monday) on Agba Jalingo.” Making the disclosure via his twitter handle he further revealed that “We will also be writing the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, National Judicial Council (NJC), urging him to use his offices and leadership of the NJC to “urgently develop measures and issue directives to all Courts to respond to the disturbing
By Aplefe Ojong A native of Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital residing in Obudu local government area of northern Cross River is currently in Police custody for tying the hands and legs of his daughter for allegedly stealing his non alcoholic beverage popularly referred to as ‘mineral.’ The man unnamed, is said to have attracted
By Jonathan Ugbal CrossRiverWatch has exclusive photographs of staff of the Calabar Urban Development Authority flogging and manhandling a man who seems to be mentally deranged. This occurred at about 09:55 Hours at the Uddy King fueling station close to the RCC (Calabar Calabar) roundabout along the Murtala Muhammed highway in Calabar, the Cross River