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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR DAY: NHRC CONGRATULATES NIGERIAN WORKERS, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS IS KEY FOR INDUSTRIAL HARMONY

As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate the 2021 International Workers Day, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has restated its commitment to ensuring that human rights principles are mainstreamed into labour practices in various workplaces and amongst labour unions across Nigeria. This is to ensure a sustainable industrial harmony, improved productivity and efficient service delivery.

POLICE SHOT ME IN RIGHT ARM FOR WHAT I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT--- COMPLAINANT TESTIFIES BEFORE IIP-SARS

A young boy, Abubakar Sadiq Ibrahim on Friday narrated before the Independent Investigative Panel on SARS and other units of the Nigeria Police Force how Police chased him up to a distance of 300 miles and eventually shot him on his right arm.

IIP-SARS; YOU ARE TRYING TO FRUSTRATE US, PANEL MEMBER REPRIMANDS POLICE

The Independent Investigative Panel on SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police Force sitting in Abuja, today warned police counsel to stop frustrating panel’s effort in the ongoing hearings saying that time is of the essence in arriving at justice.

IIP-SARS: PETITIONER SEEKS ENFORCEMENT OF 2011 JUDGEMENT AGAINST POLICE

One Sunday Kehinde, a complainant at the Independent Investigative Panel on allegations of human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigerian Police on Friday told the panel that the Police has refused to obey court judgment handed in his favour since 22nd January, 2011.

POLICE COLLECTED N100,000 FOR BULLET USED IN SHOOTING MY ELDER BROTHER, ANOTHER N103,000, YET DECLINED TO RELEASE CORPSE---PETITIONER AT IIP-SARS ALLEGES

A petitioner before the IIP-SARS, Abraham Nyamkwange on Friday narrated how the police “told” his family to pay the sum of one hundred thousand naira (N100,000) for a bullet used in shooting his elder brother, Simon Aondofa Nyamkwange over alleged robbery incident in April 2020 at Eterna filling station in Wuse 2, Abuja.