The UK has provided training and communications equipment to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit which has been linked to extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention and other abuses.
At least 56 people have died since the protest began, with victims including protesters and people allegedly hired by the authorities to confront the protesters.
Nearly ten years after the UN called for a major clean-up of areas of the Niger Delta, decontamination work has begun on only 11 per cent of planned sites while vast areas remain heavily contaminated, according to a new investigation by four NGOs.
Fifty years after the end of Nigeria’s civil war, Christian Aid has brought together influencers from the worlds of politics, charity, business and faith to unite to help the country shed its title of ‘poverty capital of the world’
Local women must no longer be excluded from decision-making in the responses to humanitarian emergencies, particularly when they are the ones most vulnerable in these crises, Christian Aid’s CEO has said.
The Nigerian military has arbitrarily detained thousands of children in degrading and inhuman conditions for suspected involvement with the armed Islamist group Boko Haram, says Human Rights Watch.
Nigeria is a pressure cooker of internal conflicts and generalised violence that must be addressed urgently, with poverty and climate change adding to the crisis, says UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard after visiting the country.