Some notorious and warring youths in Rivers State have surrendered their arms to embrace Gov Nyesom Wike’s amnesty programme. According…
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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…