The oil industry in the Niger Delta of Nigeria has brought impoverishment, conflict, human rights abuses and despair to the majority of people in the oil-producing are
(Abuja) Amnesty International today called the situation in the Niger Delta a “human rights tragedy,” saying that the people of the Niger Delta have seen t
20,000 people who live in Warri South and southwest local government
area, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, are caught in cross fire
between the Joint Task Forc
Amnesty International today expressed dismay at the decision by the Imo State House of Assembly to pass a bill providing for the death penalty for anyone convicted of
Four men arrested in recent days in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
have apparently been forcibly disappeared by police, leading to fears
that they may have been t
Amnesty International today warned that police in the Niger Delta region are increasingly using illegal and violent means to tackle suspected militants and criminals i
More people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world
in 2008. By contrast, in Europe, only one country continues to use
the death penalty: Belarus.
This song was composed by Botman Oraeku, former death row inmate from Nigeria. Botman was arrested on 3 August 1982, when he was 15 years old, for a crime committed by his brother.
