NHRC Received Over 2m Human Rights Violation Complaints In 2024, Says Ojukwu
News Investigators/ The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) received over two million human rights violation complaints in 2024. The Executive Secretary (ES) of the NHRC Anthony Ojukwu, made this known in Abuja at the presentation of the December dashboard report on human rights violations in the country…
Ogyaba Won’t Do This – Pastor Elvis Donates Huge Sum Of Money And Provisions To Orphans At Mother Love
On Thursday, 23rd January 2025, the Alpha Humanitarian Project team, led by the Chief Alpharian, Pastor Agyemang Elvis, and his lovely wife, Lady Mercy Agyemang-Elvis, visited the Mother Love Orphanage in Kwabenya to extend their heartfelt support to the children and caregivers of the home. The team came bearing gifts of essential food items…
We must challenge rising demand for transition minerals, says UN rapporteur
The world must assess the full environmental and human rights impacts of developing new mining projects to power a green shift, warns Elisa Morgera The post We must challenge rising demand for transition minerals, says UN rapporteur appeared first on Climate Home News…
What’s the maximum human life expectancy?
Everything has to have a limit.’ The post What’s the maximum human life expectancy? appeared first on Popular Science…
UK to keep ban on asylum seekers claiming modern slavery protections
LONDON – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have previously criticised those measures…
Delta: DSC Steel Town in darkness 16 years after successive governments – Group
A group under the auspices of the Initiative for Social Rights Concerns and Advancement, ISRCA, also known as “No Justice, No Peace,” has said that Delta Steel Township, a residential area for staff members of the former Delta Steel Company (DSC), has been in perpetual darkness for the past 16 years…
UN rights chief seeks $500 million in 2025, warning lives are at risk
In 2025, we expect no let-up in major challenges to human rights,” High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk tells member states in a speech at the UN in Geneva…
Bento CEO resigns, amid EFCC, LIRS probe; gives up equity
Ebun Okubanjo, CEO of Bento Africa, a Nigerian payroll and human resource management platform, has officially resigned from his position, amidst allegations of failing to remit taxes and pensions for its client…
UK Statement on Madagascar at Universal Review 48 | Mirage News
UK Statement at Madagascar’s Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Thank you, Mr Vice President, The United Kingdom thanks Madagascar for setting out its efforts to protect human rights. We urge the government to implement the new code of work, and to provide clarification that the work code also covers child