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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has warned that the current scarcity of the new naira notes is a threat to national security. There is existing severe scarcity of newly introduced Naira notes in most banks across Nigeria. According to HURIWA, the inefficiency of the governor of the Central …

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has queried the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the scarcity of new naira notes a few weeks before the deadline for the validity of the old banknotes. Since the launch of the new notes started circulation on December …

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of two Kwara-based journalists prosecuted for defamation, by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. This was made known in a statement signed by the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, on Saturday. Onwubiko described the governor’s arrest and remand …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) yesterday called on President, Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), former Inspector General of Police, Mr Musiliu Smith over alleged recurring ineptitude under his administration. The call was made in support of an earlier one by the …

HUMAN Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has kicked against the appointment of Ahmed Halilu, older brother to the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, as the Managing Director of Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, NSPMC Plc. HURIWA said that President Muhammadu Buhari may have breached the oath of office of …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Friday urged the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa (retd.), to expose and prosecute corrupt officers in the anti-narcotics agency involved in an alleged diversion of N20 billion budgetary allocation to the agency. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Wednesday, described as wicked and insensitive, the branding as mere conflict, the aggression and killings of southern farmers by Fulani herders. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, said the matter is not a conflict and urged the Federal Government to …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, a civil rights advocacy group, has urged President Major General Muhammadu Buhari to resign immediately if the job is difficult for him. In a statement released on Tuesday, HURIWA urged the President to step down in order to lessen the harm his “gross incompetence and …

In the wake of the rising death toll recorded in an ill-fated Kaduna-bound train from Abuja which was attacked by bloodthirsty terrorists around 6pm on Monday, civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has asked the Federal Government to arrest controversial Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, an influential Islamic …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has told Nigerians that keeping quiet in the face of the current economic meltdown in the country will do more harm than good. According to the human rights advocacy group, any citizen who fails to speak out and eventually dies in pain, hardship …