The National Human Rights Commission has announced that complaints of human rights violations in Nigeria rose by 25 percent in February 2025.
The commission’s Executive Secretary, Tony Ojukwu, at the presentation of the February 2025 human rights dashboard in Abuja, said 205,364 complaints of rights violation were received by the NHRC in the month.
In January 2025, the NHRC recorded 169,850 complaints of rights violation.
The NHRC Human Rights Dashboard, which provides a breakdown of the human rights situation in the country, is presented on a monthly basis.
Noting that Nigeria is experiencing a disturbing trend whereby human rights complaints received by the NHRC has continued to rise, Ojukwu said the February dashboard highlighted mass killings and abductions in the North-West and North-Central, cult related killings, inter and intra communal violence, extra judicial killings by the police and the Armed Forces, resurgence of Boko Haram related attacks and increase in rape cases.
Highlighting human rights issues in focus in February 2025, the NHRC raised the alarm over a rise in suicide cases, and attacks on academic communities, in addition to regular topics such as cultism, extra-judicial killings, and deaths by accident.
