The dilemma in the Presidential Amnesty Office is far from being over; even with the appointment of the new Interim…
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Amnesty Staff Fight Back, say “we Are Professionals Not Criminals”. Some staff of the Presidential Amnesty Office have come out…
Ex-Catholic archbishop of Abuja Archdiocese, John Onaiyekan has come out to say that amnesty should only be granted when there…
Atiku Abubakar has said if he is elected, his government will look into amnesty for looters. He said such a…
American music star Alicia Keys has won the prestigious Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2017. Alicia Keys has…
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has begun verification of 236 ex-agitators from Abia benefiting from the programme. The Coordinator of…
3,000 cult members on Friday, March 31, 2017, surrendered their weapons to the Rivers state Government. This is in accordance…
A human rights advocacy group, Africa Arise for Change Network says the recent report by Amnesty International which claimed that…
The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Democratic Front (NDPDF), General Playboy has said that the problem of the militants…
Katsina state government has inaugurated a 15-man Committee on Dialogue and Amnesty to parley with cattle rustlers operating in the…
Some notorious and warring youths in Rivers State have surrendered their arms to embrace Gov Nyesom Wike’s amnesty programme. According…
The amnesty programme of Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom received a major boost on Tuesday when some gangs from Kwande…
The Head of Media and Communication of the Presidential Amnesty Office, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, has resigned his appointment as the…
Ex-Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs and former coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has raised the…
The umbrella body for Ijaw youths, Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, has said the December terminal date for the Niger Delta…
The new Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (retd.), has swung into action with the re-organization…
British, U.S. ‘experts’ arrive to help in Nigeria ‘“Damning testimonies gathered by Amnesty International reveal that Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school in…
Nigeria’s military was warned of an attack on a school in which more than 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram Islamists but failed to act for nearly five hours, Amnesty International said Friday. The allegation, which the military has denied, came…
The number of known executions worldwide rose to at least 778 last year following a surge in Iraq and Iran, Amnesty International said Thursday, but China remains the world’s biggest state executioner by far. Beijing is thought to have killed thousands…
Myanmar on Tuesday announced there were “no more political prisoners” after issuing a sweeping amnesty order aimed at fulfilling a presidential pledge to free all dissidents by the end of the year. The country has released scores of prisoners of conscience…