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‘We Will Not Fold Arms And Watch Nigerians Rights Being Violated’ – NHRC

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5 years ago

March 3, 2020

National Human Rights Commission says it will not fold its arms and watch while law enforcement agencies, entities or individuals continue to trampled and violate the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.

Tony Ojukwu, Esq, Executive Secretary of the Commission disclosed this in Benin on Monday March 2, at a public sitting on Special Investigation Panel on Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria, organised for the South-South geo-political zone.

SGBV was set up April 2019 as a result of complaints received after security men led by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), under the auspices of FCT Task Force raided night clubs and the streets of Abuja.

Ojukwu said enssence of the SGBV Panel sitting was to check the scourge of sexual and gender-based violence in the country and increase access of Nigerians to the services of the Commission.

A cross section of participants at the SGBV Panel sitting in Benin on Monday

He added that the aim was to seek accountability where there is evidence to indicate that any officer, officials or individuals have been involved in acts of sexual and gender-based violence, stressing that it will also provide opportunities for fair hearing to both complainants and alleged violators.

“The public sitting is also to provide opportunities for fair hearing to both complainants and alleged violators and to mainstream human rights norms and tenets into the operation of AEPB, law enforcement officials and members of the public, etc, in line with global best practices and internationally accepted human rights standards.

“The SGBV Panel sitting will furthermore provide stakeholders opportunity to contribute to ideas on how best to develop guidelines and policies on sexual and gender-based violence for institutions, MDAs, public and private organisations and homes that can serve as good practices against the backdrop of reported cases of abuse”, he added.

While decrying the spate of human rights violation, Ojukwu said the SGBV Panel, since it was set up April 2019, has so far received one and hundred and thirteen (113) complaints/memorandum across the six geo-political zones, stressing that the South-East takes the lead with a total of thirty-five (35) cases, representing 30%.

He added that South-South comes next in human rights violation with twenty-six (26) cases, while the North-Central accounts for 19 cases and the North-West 17 cases. 12 cases of human rights abuse were recorded in the South-West while the North-Esst has the lowest with the total number of 4 cases.

The Chairman, who disclosed that the Commission had completed sittings in major cities in the country and had so far recorded success in handling gender-based violence, called on members of the public particularly South-South residents with gender-based violence to forward their complaints to the panel, assuring that identities of such persons would be fully protected.

The Public Sitting which was attended by Civil Society Organisations, security agencies, antigraft agencies and other key stakeholders lasted for two days (Monday March 2 to Tuesday March 3).

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Bumper Harvest: Foundation Distributes 6,000 Fertilizers To Farmers In Bauchi

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August 14, 2025

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A group, Wunti Al-Khair Foundation has donated 6,000 50kg bags of fertilizer to farmers in Bauchi state in order to have a bumper harvest.

Speaking during the flag off ceremony of the distribution of the fertilizers on Thursday, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Wunti Al-Khair Foundation, said the distribution was only for the indigent farmers in the state.

He said the fertilizers would be distributed to farmers in underserved communities across the three Senatorial Districts of the state.

“We are gathered here to flag off the free distribution of fertilizers to farmers, especially the indigent farmers that don’t have the means to buy fertilizer for their farms.

“That is the reason why the founder of this foundation bought the fertilizers and distributed them to the low income farmers in the state.

“We have gone round the nooks and crannies of the state to identify the underserved communities and those that deserve this particular gesture.

“We planned to distribute about 6,000 bags of fertilizer and due to the populous nature of the Bauchi LGA, they have the largest share but some other local governments too have hundreds of beneficiaries which we divided into Senatorial zones,” he said.

According to him, today was the flagging off of the Bauchi South Senatorial District, adding that the extension of the gesture would commence in Bauchi North and Bauchi Central Senatorial Districts tomorrow.

Mohammed explained that the only criteria used in selecting the beneficiaries were underserved communities and low income farmers, adding that “we know that a large number of the farmers in Bauchi state are low income farmers.

“Those are the people that we identified, verified and they are our beneficiaries and we have warned the general public about the activities of some unscrupulous elements that go round to impersonate our foundation.

“Wunti Al-Khair Foundation is not charging a kobo for every part of its activities, be it education, healthcare, economic empowerment and community development”.

Responding, one of the beneficiaries, Emmanuel Samson, described the support as a timely intervention that would greatly enhance his farming activities and appreciated the foundation for the intervention.

Another beneficiary, Salisu Maidawa, who was short of words for the gesture, said the gesture came at a time when he was in dire need of it.

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IYC Urges Tinubu To Sack NCDMB Boss

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August 14, 2025

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Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Western Zone, has urged President Bola Tinubu to immediately sack Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) for allegedly not “keeping up to the fundamental mandate,” upon which the agency was established.

This was contained in a statement jointly signed by Comrade Nicholas Igarama, Comrade Ebi Joshua Olowolayemo, and Comrade Tare Magbei, Western Zone
Chairman, Secretary, and Information Officer respectively, and made available to newsmen in Warri on Thursday, August 14, 2015.

According to the IYC, the call for Ogbe’s sack becomes necessary following his incompetence and ethnic bias, adding that Ogbe has turned the agency meant for the whole Niger Delta to his Itsekiri ethnic group alone.

The IYC, while noting that efforts to meet the NCDMB Executive Secretary to discuss critical issues as they affect the region and its people have proved abortive, said it can no longer fold it arms and watch while things go from bad to worse.

“As Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Ogbe has consistently failed to input his supposed industry track record in the advancement of the mandate upon which the agency was founded.

“He has continually had a sectional engagement with his fellow Itsekiri Kits and Kin, thereby shutting all other ethnic nationalites in the Niger Delta region out.

“Repeatedly, he avoided critical youth engagement in the region while sponsoring that of his Itsekiri ethnicity through different human capacity development initiatives, while other ethnic nationalites are left unattended.

“As Ijaw, mostly from the western flank where Engr. Ogbe also hails from, we will not sit and watch others benefit from the resources that we produce without our practical involvement to better the lives of our people as well.

“It is on record that the leadership of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Western Zone has tried to establish communication with Engr. Ogbe, for the last ten months, but every medium of communication to get his attention has fundamentally proven to be abortive.

“As youths, we can no longer have leaders in office who have now equated themselves to demi-god and have refused to attend to most significantly youthful issues in the Niger Delta Region.

“To this end, we therefore call on President Bola Ahmed Tinibu to immediately sack Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, who has consistently displayed disregard for critical actors in the Niger Delta and has also exhibited the highest level of gross inefficiency by not keeping up to the fundamental mandate upon which NCDMB was founded,” the statement reads.

The IYC also called for the probe Ogbe as Executive Secretary after his sack.

Efforts to reach Dr. Obinna Ezeobi, the General Manager, Corporate Communications, NCDMB, for reaction proved abortive.

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I’m Being Impersonated – Goodluck Jonathan Disowns Social Media Account

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August 14, 2025

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday said he is being impersonated by fraudsters.

Jonathan alleged that a fraudulent Instagram handle has been impersonating him.

In a statement by his Media Aide,
Ikechukwu Eze, the former President insisted that he does not operate any Instagram handle.

The statement is titled ‘Beware of fake Instagram account impersonating H.E. Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’.

“Our attention has been drawn to a fraudulent Instagram account operating under the handle goodluck_ebelejonathan, which is falsely impersonating former President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

“This impostor account has been deceitfully posting content, some copied from Dr. Jonathan’s Facebook page, while pretending to represent the former President.

“We wish to emphasise that Dr. Jonathan does not operate any Instagram account.

“The media and members of the public are strongly advised to disregard, avoid sharing, or promoting any content originating from this fake profile,” the statement read.