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HURIWA warns of economic cruelty as cooking gas hits N2,000/kg

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has condemned the sharp rise in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly known as cooking gas, describing the development as “economic cruelty” and warning that unchecked profiteering is undermining citizens’ constitutional right to life. The group expressed concern over reports that cooking gas now sells for as […]

HURIWA criticizes NBS over unemployment data
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HURIWA criticizes NBS over unemployment data

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria on Monday, criticized the National Bureau of Statistics recent unemployment data. According to the organization, the country’s unemployment rate fell dramatically from 33.1 percent in March 2021 to 4.1 percent in the first quarter of 2023. In response, the group’s national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, accused the entire process […]

HURIWA criticizes NBS over unemployment data
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HURIWA knocks Tinubu over subsidy removal

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has denounced Tinubu’s declaration to eliminate fuel subsidy, saying it is autocratic and unlawful. Arise News reported that the national coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, criticized the decision to end fuel subsidies in a statement as being careless, foolish, and insensitive. The rights organization asked the labor movement and civil rights […]

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$1bn annual school feeding programme must be probed – HURIWA

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Friday, demanded a probe into the Federal Government’s $1bn annual allocation for the National Social Investment Programme. In a statement signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA described described the NSIP which include the school feeding programme as the single biggest […]