Deciding who wins elections should not be left to courts — Odinkalu

HUMAN rights activist and writer, Chidi Odinkalu, has expressed disapproval of the trend that sees judges upturning the outcome of elections as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) across Nigeria. During an interview with The ICIR on Thursday, the professor of law said part of the problems the country is facing is that the judiciary […]

3,188 Nigerians were reportedly atrociously killed in 2019.

This is according to a report by Global Rights, an international non-governmental organisation championing human rights capacity building. The report shows that 3,188 Nigerians, including 2,707 civilians and 481 security operatives were killed. The report, presented to journalists by a former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu and a co-convener of the […]