- The presidency has distanced itself from the expulsion of a Punch correspondent covering the Presidential Villa - The correspondent Olalekan Adetayo wrote about President Buhari's health which led to his expulsion on Monday afternoon by the president's Chief Security Officer - Femi Adesina said amicable solution would be found to the matter as the president is committed to press freedom The presidency has reacted to reports that Olalekan Adetayo, a Punch correspondent, was expelled from the Presidential Villa. Adetayo was on Monday afternoon, April 24, expelled by Buhari’s Chief Security Officer, Bashir Abubakar Bindawa, over a story story on the president's health. His tag was seized before he was subsequently driven out of the State House. Lekan Adetayo being led away after expulsion from Aso Villa by Buhari's Chief Security Officer
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Ms. Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, urging her to “prevail on the Nigerian authorities to halt further killings of innocent citizens in Southern Kaduna.” The group also demanded investigation into recent alleged killing of over 800 citizens, mostly women, children and the elderly in that part of the country by suspected herdsmen, and to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, and to provide reparations to victims. The organization also asked Ms. Callamard to “request to visit Nigeria to conduct fact-finding mission into the circumstances surrounding the killings.” In the petition dated 30th December, 2016 and signed by SERAP executive director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organization expressed “concern that the killings of citizens in Southern Kaduna of Nigeria amount to serious violations of the rights to life; to security of the human person; to ...

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