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- 24 Jul 2026
HURIWA, CLO Protests Bill Asking Social Media Firms’ to Open Shops Nigeria
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has opposed a bill seeking to compel major global social media companies to establish physical offices in Nigeria. The rights advocacy group urged…
- 19 Jul 2021
HURIWA Slams NBC over Attempt to Gag Terrorism Reporting
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), rights advocacy group has condemned the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), for what it called its attempt to muzzle press freedom in the…
- 22 Jul 2024
Tinubu Has Surrendered Nigeria’s Sovereignty to IMF, World Bank – HURIWA
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned President Bola Tinubu’s recent economic policies, saying they have undermined Nigeria’s sovereignty. Bola Tinubu HURIWA noted that…
- 8 Jul 2018
HURIWA Calls FG Out over NBC’s N2Bn, N500m Bribe @ MTN
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), one of the nation's foremost pro-democracy and civil Rights organisations has described the recently signed executive order by President…
- 5 Sept 2021
HURIWA Asks Nigerians to Beg Buhari to Resign Immediately
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has told Nigerians to beg President Muhammadu Buhari to resign immediately. The group is worried by the expanding frontiers of terrorism in the…
- 17 Apr 2019
HURIWA Accuses Buhari of Witch Hunting AIT, Others
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari was using security agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to…
- 31 Jan 2025
HURIWA Condemns Benue Government over Closure of Joy FM
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has strongly condemned the forceful invasion and closure of Joy FM 96.5, Otukpo, by the Benue State Government, calling it a brazen assault on…
- 2 Jan 2026
HURIWA Demands Accountability from SEDC Over N140Bn Budget Utilisation
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has challenged the South East Development Commission (SEDC) leadership to provide transparent details on achievements recorded in its…
- 24 Aug 2018
HURIWA Seeks Probe of NBC DG, Claims Buhari Blackmailing Media
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a non-governmental organization, has accused the Alhaji Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, director general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of being a…
- 16 May 2021
HURIWA Accuses FIRS of Witch-Hunt for Demanding 70m Tax
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) of exhibiting tendencies of tyranny in an illiterate manner by illegally asking the…
- 20 Aug 2019
HURIWA Calls Out Kawu over Alleged Ethnic Cleansing at NBC
Human rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has accused Modibbo Kawu, director general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of exhibiting extreme Igbo phobia and for waging a…
- 12 Jul 2018
HURIWA Asks Buhari to Sack Adeosun, Others over Forgery
The Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Kemi Adeosun, minister of Finance, and other members of his cabinet accused of certificate…
- 8 Sept 2024
HURIWA Says FG is Suffocating Nigerians with 10 Per Cent VAT Hike
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has tackled the federal government over the plan to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 7.5 per cent to 10 per cent and demanded that the…
- 24 Mar 2015
VOA Fears for PDP, Tips APC to Win
Nigeria’s fifth presidential election on March 28 is expected to be the tightest since the country returned to democracy in 1999. That’s not the only way this vote might be different, according to…
- 21 Apr 2021
Terrorism Tag: Pressure Mounts on Buhari to Sack Pantami
Following concerns over the past sermons of Dr Isa Pantami, minister of Communications and Digital Economy, relating to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda groups, some Nigerians and groups are piling pressure…
- 1 Jun 2016
Etisalat Opens Entries for Prize for Literature 2016
Etisalat has announced its call for entries to the 2016 edition of the Pan-African Prize, Etisalat Prize for Literature. This is coming just a few months after the Democratic Republic of Congo’s…
- 22 Oct 2021
Labour to Launch Online TV Platform
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it will soon inaugurate its online television to enable Nigerian workers tell their own stories. Ayubba Waba, president, NLC, who stated this at the 40th…
- 19 Jun 2022
Meet the 20 MTN-MIP Fellows
Twenty media professionals across the country have been selected for the maiden Media Innovation Programme by MTN Nigeria (MTN-MIP) in partnership with the School of Media and Communications,…