Incidents in: North West

Governor El-Rufia ordered the arrest of a correspondent.

Incident Date: 20th April, 2017

Gov. El-Rufai ordered the arrest of Joseph Midat, a correspondent for Leadership newspapers in Kaduna...

Man jailed for insulting, defaming Nigerian governor on social...

Incident Date: 27th March, 2017

Gambo Saeed sentenced to nine months imprisonment for insulting and defaming the character of Governor...

Police halts Shitte’s religious gathering.

Incident Date: 19th March, 2017

Armed Security Agents forcefully disrupted a religious gathering of members of the Islamic Movement of...

Katsina Governor Masari bans unlawful gathering.

Incident Date: 2nd March, 2017

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari signed declaratory order banning the ‘unlawful’ gathering of two or...

Gloria Ballason, Lawyer and Human rights activists

Incident Date: 1st December, 2016

Gloria Ballason, Lawyer and Human rights activists had her radio program ‘House of Justice’ that...

KDSG demolishes Fudiyya Islamic School and Hussainiyya.

Incident Date: 18th November, 2016

On Friday 18th November 2016, a combined team of security operatives and Kaduna state government...

Nigerian Government attack the Arbaeen symbolic trekking from Kano.

Incident Date: 14th November, 2016

A clash between the Nigeria Police and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria led...

Former Kaduna Lecturer remanded in Prison for criticizing El-Rufai.

Incident Date: 26th October, 2016

A former Kaduna Lecturer with the Kaduna State University, Dr John DanFulani was remanded in...

Scores killed in Shiites security agents clash.

Incident Date: 13th October, 2016

Deadly and violent confrontations occurred between security operatives and members of the IMN group, otherwise...

Nigeria blogger detained for five days.

Incident Date: 23rd September, 2016

Nigerian blogger, Jamil Mabai, a known critic of Aminu Masari, the governor of Katsina state...

How ‘assault’ on journalist landed Hisbah men in court.

Incident Date: 27th August, 2016

On August 27, 2016, four representatives of the Kano State Hisbah Board, a local security...

Nigerian journalist arrested for news report

Incident Date: 27th April, 2016

Police invited Jacob Onjenwu Dickson, a reporter for the news website Authentic News Daily, to...