Forum tasks FG on rights abuse
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have urged the federal government to introduce transitional justice into Nigeria’s legal framework as part of measures to address issues of human rights abuses in the country.
The forum under the Community of Practice Planning Committee made the call yesterday in Abuja at a meeting on “Community of Practice on Transitional Justice in Nigeria” organised by the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) and McArthur Foundation.
CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, stressed the need for Nigeria to have a framework that would identify the needs of various One person was confirmed dead when students of the College of Education, Gindiri in Mangu LGA of Plateau State went on rampage on Thursday, damaging school property over failure of the school management to reverse certain policies. learnt that the students had earlier demonstrated The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) yesterday revealed that it recorded 8,018 whistleblowing reports from different people in the past one year.
The Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Dikwa disclosed this during a Town Hall meeting on whistleblowing and fight against corruption organised by the African Centre for Media The National Vice President, Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG), Chief Emmanuel Ijewere, has urged the Kaduna State government to take urgent measures to tackle tomato postharvest losses, saying 400, 000 tonnes is left to rot annually.
Speaking at a tomato stakeholders meeting in Kaduna, communities and address them.
She said transitional justice when put in place would deal with two prisms of dealing with the perpetrators of violence and on the other hand helps the victims and survivors get justice and reparation.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Justice Reform, Mrs. Juliet Ibekaku, called for justice for the vulnerable and abused, saying transitional justice consists of judicial and non-judicial measures implemented in order to redress legacies of human rights abuses.
The president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud, said in the past two years, the association constituted a task force to beam searchlight on conflict areas in the North-east and Niger Delta regions.
Students burn cars, clinic
to the school’s administrative bock demanding immediate release of their identity cards, reversal of a policy on course credit units as well as the payment of N2, 700 for medical test and health insurance.
Media and Information Officer, Operation Safe Haven, Major Adam Umar confirmed the death of the student but said he did not die of a bullet wound.
Whistleblowing: Pica records 8,018 reports
and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) with support from MacArthur foundation in Kano.
According to him, PICA recorded 1, 345 SMS, 618 reports were received through the PICA website while 5, 537 were received through phone calls among other avenues.
The Director-General, National Orientation Agency, (NOA), Dr Garba Abari, stressed that citizens must play active roles in the fight against corruption as was not for government alone.
‘Farmers lose 400, 000 tonnes of tomato annually’
Ijewere said although Kaduna was the biggest producer of tomato with more than one million tonnes annually, 40 per cent of the commodity was lost due to lack of storage facilities and poor transportation.
Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i, who represented by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry, Dr Manzo Daniel Maigari, expressed government’s commitment to check post- harvest losses.