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A coalition of non governmental organizations based in Southern Kaduna on Tuesday converged in Abuja to draw attention of the public to what they termed " southern Kaduna genocide" where Fulani herdsmen and cattle rustlers routinely attack communities in the Christian populated area of Kaduna state, with reckless abandon and killing any living thing in sight with women and children suffering most from these incessant attacks. The coalition, supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa; OSIWA, led by chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Dr. Chidi Odinkalu, narrated the ordeals which the southern Kasuna people have continued to suffer with little or no form of protection from the Kaduna state government or the federal government. They noted that since the early 1980s, that there had been consistent attacks on the people of southern Kaduna but that the incidence of such attacks increased to a generalized warfare and genocidal scale from 2011 foll...

Global body, Amnesty International, Thursday in Abuja released a report detailing incidences of torture and other ill treatment in Nigeria, especially those perpetrated by the Nigerian Police and other security operatives, including the Nigerian Army. The report titled "Welcome to hell fire"  exposed torture chambers in Nigeria Police stations dotted across Nigeria and disclosed that Nigeria Police and Army routinely torture women, men, and children, some as young as 12, using a wide range of methods including beatings, shootings and rape. The report details how people are often detained in large dragnet operations and tortured as punishment, to extort money or to extract confessional statements as shortcut to solving cases. It also notes that torture is not even a criminal offense in Nigeria and calls on Nigerian parliament and government to immediately take the long overdue steps and pass a law criminalizing torture in the country. Amnesty International's R...