Nigeria

Strong evidence that soldiers used automatic firearms on Shi’a Muslims holding religious procession and protest At least 39 protesters killed,...

Responding to the murder of aid worker Hauwa Liman by Boko Haram, Osai Ojigho, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, said:...

Responding to the arrest and detention of 114 Owerri women protestors who had been peacefully demanding the whereabouts of Indigenous...

The Nigerian military is increasingly resorting to threats, intimidation and smears to discredit Amnesty International’s work documenting the human rights...

Responding to a violent crackdown by Nigerian police on members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) protesting the detention of...

Responding to the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the abduction of 276 school girls in Chibok, Osai Ojigho Director...

Responding to today’s release of 101 of the schoolgirls abducted from a school in Dapchi, northern Nigeria by the armed...

Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards a...

A groundbreaking research project by Amnesty International has exposed evidence of serious negligence by oil giants Shell and Eni, whose...

Communal clashes leading to killings with impunity At least 35 killed as military launches air attacks on villages beset by...

Responding to the recent video circulating on social media, apparently showing the aftermath of an alleged killing of a young...

Massive cache of internal documents and other evidence points to Shell’s complicity in horrific crimes committed by the Nigerian military...