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The National Youth Service Corps scheme is Nigeria’s only legacy of unity and should not be scrapped, civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has said.
National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, made this known in a statement titled, ‘Move To Scrap Nysc Unpatriotic; A Sobotage: Says Huriwa’.
Onwubiko was reacting to a move by the House of Representatives to discontinue the NYSC sceheme.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the NYSC Act, is billed for the second reading.
As gov tasks church leaders on solution to insecurity
The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to end the military aggression in the South East with specific reference to the reported airstrikes in Imo State.
HURIWA said the deployment of airpower against South East of Nigeria even when the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) had reportedly asked their members to disengage from their activities, constituted a crime of military aggression against innocent civilians.
The group stated that the airstrikes had created an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty in the entire Imo State with millions of people unsure of their safety any longer.
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Published 21 May 2021
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Friday, asked Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Nanono, to approve a sum of N30m each to build a church and a shrine just as he approved the same amount to build a mosque for displaced Muslim herders.
National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, made this known in a statement titled, ‘HURIWA To Agric Minister: Build A Church And African Shrine Or Be Sued’.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that Nanono came under fire on social media following a leaked memo conveying the approval of N30m for the construction of a ‘Friday’ mosque with taxpayers’ funds.