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NHRC Launches Nationwide Training on Rights-Based HIV and TB Response

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has launched a nationwide training programme for law enforcement officers, traditional rulers, and religious leaders aimed at promoting human rights, gender sensitivity, and public health-informed practices in Nigeria’s HIV and tuberculosis (TB) response.The two-day training, taking place across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is part…

Stop Targeting Journalists: SERAP, NGE Warn

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Human rights and media groups have called on President Bola Tinubu’s government, state governors, lawmakers, and other authorities to stop harassing journalists, activists, bloggers, and civil society organizations (CSOs) for peacefully exercising their rights. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) warned that the use of provisions in the Cybercrimes Act, criminal and penal codes,…