As the global community celebrates the 2022 International Women’s Day (IWD), the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Chief Tony Ojukwu, SAN, has said that inclusion of more women at decision-making levels in the country is crucial for national development.

A petitioner, Otomerhe Onaodowan, on Monday told the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units in Abuja, how her two sons Collins Ese Onaodowan and Owen Onaodowan were extra-judicially killed by the police, in Delta, in 2010.

The Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigerian Police in Abuja, on Monday, told the Police that it will keep adjourning, from day to day, the case of alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and enforced disappearance of John Emeka Alozie if the police fail to produce the case file of the victim before the panel.

---Seeks N250 million compensation for his brother’s extra-judicial killing

A complainant, Reverend Father Henry Ayo Sanni on Friday told the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigeria Police Force how his younger brother, Mr. Femi Sanni was allegedly gunned down by the Police in Abuja in 2007.