Dalhatu Kolo

Lawyer,Human Rights,access to justice,refugee rights,campaign against death penalty.LL.M Sheffield Hallam.

[Senator Shehu Sani @ShehuSani]

She committed the act in 1996 at the age of 20,and she is to be executed today in 2026.Three decades on the death row.Let there be mercy for a second chance in life.Twenty is still the age of exuberance and ignorance.Christa Pike execution should be converted to Life Imprisonment.
@GovBillLee @Tennessean @TNLookout

[Dalhatu Kolo @dalhatukolo]

@nsciaNG @elrufai I guess NSCIA never saw or heard about the thousands of poor innocent people murdered daily by terrorists. Politics and power is all you charlatans care about.

[Dalhatu Kolo @dalhatukolo]

@KayodeAderibig7 @SaharaReporters Na Fulani

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Please allow me to provide a slight different perspective. I don’t think the problem is ignorance, or lack of exposure. Let me begin with the ones on top.
Most of the people wrecking Nigeria, and many of the idiot aides defending them online, have travelled widely. Some shuttle in and out of London, Dubai, Paris, Berlin with enviable regularity. They know exactly what functional airports look like. They have used steady electricity. They have enjoyed public transport that works. They have tasted what it means to live in a place where the state does its basic job.
And yet they return home perfectly comfortable reproducing dysfunction.
Now this is the same with those at the bottom. Even for them the issue is not that they don’t know what a good country looks like. There is social media, or they have relatives who probably live abroad. They know it is possible. It is that many people, even poor people, but especially those close to power, are deeply uninterested in true equality, uninterested in reducing our violent hierarchies, uninterested in living in a society where there is no one beneath them. It sounds harsh but I really do think that even on a cultural level, Nigerians do not desire equality. They just don't want to be at the bottom of the ladder. But you see that ladder, too many people want, even need it. In Hausa we say, duniya kwandon dankali - Manya kan kanana -- the world, a basket of potatoes, the big ones piled on top of the small ones. (You know like how those people who sell tomatoes or potatoes on highways hide the small of bad tomatoes or tomatoes at the bottom of the basket🤣). We love that basket arrangement. We just don't want to be the rotten tomato or small potato at the bottom.
The middle class madam does not want to sit in the same train as her housemaid, even if she is happy to sit next to people she is richer than in public transport abroad. The junior political aide, who has narrowly escaped extreme poverty and begun to put on flesh since leaving his village to work for a politician, does not want shared amenities either. He wants to go back to the village and be bowed to. Be called oga. Have people kneel.
How many Nigerians genuinely want their children in the same schools as their drivers’ children? How many want to use the same hospitals as their gatekeepers as the women braiding their hair in the market? How many want public goods so good that private alternatives become unnecessary?
So airlifting everyone abroad, like the Devil took Jesus to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, will not magically produce consensus for reform. Exposure alone does not create virtue.
What many people actually want is the ability to escape, not the obligation to fix. They want to travel abroad occasionally, take photos in Cape Town or Joburg or Seychelles, and return home to lord those images over people who cannot leave. Mobility becomes a status weapon. Dysfunction becomes useful.
I remember a moment in Kaduna that clarified this for me. NEPA took light. It was getting dark. A young girl shouted to their gateman: Maigadi, bambamta mu da saura!—“Gateman, distinguish us from the others.” She wanted the generator turned on. She was delighted at the idea of being the only house glowing on a pitch-dark street.
That sentence contains a political philosophy.
This is why Nigerian elites are comfortable building vulgar mansions surrounded by potholes, shanties, hunger, and decay. Wealth means nothing without visible poverty to frame it. Power requires contrast. Hierarchy needs spectators.
If everyone had access to dignity—reliable electricity, clean water, functional transport—how would big men be worshipped? How would pastors promise what governments should provide? How would politicians and traditional leaders maintain relevance? How would people (even average Nigerians) find poor people's children to turn into slaves, aka housemaids? How else would someone have the temerity to beat his chest and ask: do you know who I am?
So the problem is not that Nigerians don’t know better. Many know. They just don’t want a society where dignity is common. They want one where it is scarce—and personally controlled.
That is a harder problem than ignorance. And it cannot be solved by excursions.

[Dalhatu Kolo @dalhatukolo]

@HAHayatu Well, let’s support northerners like Professor Jerry Gana, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu or former Plateau governor, Da Jonah Jang. They are all northerners, right?

[Dalhatu Kolo @dalhatukolo]

@jrnaib2 You should have directed this to Buhari during his eight years in office. He created this monster.

[Dalhatu Kolo @dalhatukolo]

@ankaboy This is very troubling.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Yes Means Yes!

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Attacks against schoolchildren, teachers and school buildings demonstrate an absolute disregard for the right to life and the right to education. Such attacks may also constitute crimes against humanity as defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court: https://t.co/0nQVqrG18h

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

We went to TikTok's Transparency and Accountability in the office to deliver a petition demanding they #FixTikTok and make it safe for young people.

Here's why.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Time is running out, and the Nigerian authorities must do more to ensure safe and secure rescue of the 12 persons abducted by gunmen at Gidan Waya Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State, in an attack in which 4 people were killed. Among those abducted are minors of 13, 14 and 15-years old.

Abductors usually subject the victims to horrific atrocities, including torture, deprivation of food and water, and rape of women and girls. Families of the victims have been left in the anguish of not knowing the fate of their loved ones for 18 days.

The attack which took place in the night of 11 November 2025 — is yet another indication of the stunning failure of the Nigerian authorities to protect lives and ensure accountability for all human rights crimes.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Families in Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra & Imo mourn loved ones lost to unlawful killings and disappearances.
Our new report shows how violence from armed groups and heavy-handed raids has turned towns like Agwa & Izombe into ungoverned spaces.
@ccsoludo @francisogbonnanwifuru @he_hopeuzodimma @pnmbah @alexottiofr, your citizens need safety, not silence.

📢 Join us to demand reforms: https://t.co/35fEm222QC Nigeria-nigeria/

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

The season of Write for Rights Is Here!

On the 22nd of November 2025, the flagship marathon letter writing ‘Write For Rights’ campaign for Niger state took place in at CES Conference Hall University of Calabar Calabar Cross River State.

Calabar Writes for Right!🇳🇬

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Why does Sokoto State government want to send Hamdiyya Sidi Shariff to jail? Just for speaking out against rampant banditry across eastern parts of Sokoto where dozens of villages have been sacked, hundreds killed and thousands displaced. The victims are farmers that have been repeatedly attacked, women and girls abducted and raped.

Hamdiyya has been abducted twice, beaten and severely injured by sponsored thugs. Some northern social media influencers were paid to run smear campaigns against her and her family.

She is still on trial!

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Eberechi Ukaegbu: Abducted by ‘Security’ Personnel Eberechi Ukaegbu was abducted from his residence in Alaukwu-Umuoma in Obingwa LGA of Abia state in March 2021, at about 1:30 am by armed security agents over alleged membership of IPOB. He was about 50 years at the time of his abduction. His 38-year-old sister narrated the harrowing experience to Amnesty International: “They [security agents] came at night at about 1:30am, well-armed with AK47s, shouting: “Open the gate!” We were so frightened. No one could go and open the gate. They forcefully broke into the compound and took my brother. We have been to many places to search for him, we have gone to Aba in Abia state. We have gone to several police stations. They said they have no record of him. We have also been to the DSS office, and they said they have no record of such a person in their custody. My brother is married with 5 children. His wife and children are still in his residence. His family has been highly affected by void created by his abduction.”

Sign the petition now and demand his whereabouts:
https://t.co/12asv03JZo

#JusticeforSouthEastNG

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Amnesty International strongly condemns the mass abductions in Nigeria early today of more than 52 school girls at St. Mary's Private (Catholic) Secondary School in Papiri Community of Agwara Local Government Area of Niger state. The latest mass abduction, happens barely three days after more than 25 school girls were abducted at GGCSS Maga Kebbi State. This is a shocking indication of the authorities’ persistent failure to protect people from attacks by armed groups that have continually killed and abducted thousands of Nigerians in the last ten years. Whatever security measures put in place by the government of President Bola Tinubu are not working.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
22 November 2025
Press Release

Nigeria Is Failing Children in a Horrifying Manner

The Nigerian authorities are failing children, as over 230 children in the north are in captivity of gunmen this week, after their abduction during two mass attacks on schools that also interrupted the education of thousands of children because of closure of hundreds of schools in Katsina, Plateau and other states.

The latest wave of horrific attacks on schools in Kebbi and Niger state, clearly show Nigerian authorities never cared to learn any lessons from such previous incidents in which some school children were also killed by gunmen.

"School children in some parts of northern Nigeria are constantly at the risk death or abduction. More than 780 children were abducted for ransom in 2021 during mass attacks on schools or religious institutions, with some of the children killed during the attacks," said Isa Sanusi Director Amnesty International Nigeria

"The future of thousands of school children in Northern Nigeria remains bleak, as hundreds of schools in some states have been closed indefinitely due to rising insecurity. Hundreds of children will entirely abandon education due to the psychological trauma of witnessing violent attacks or living in captivity," said Isa Sanusi

Some teachers in Zamfara, Katsina and Niger state told Amnesty International that insecurity has drastically reduced school attendance since 2021, as children are afraid of attending schools even when forced by their parents. Underaged girls are having their education terminated, as they are increasingly married up in the name of shielding them from possible abduction at schools.

When education institutions are targeted or attacked, the damage and consequences can be major and far-reaching. The protection of children’s lives is paramount, and the Nigerian authorities have a duty to ensure that the country’s educational sector is not further threatened by the abductions, intimidation and killing of school children.

"There is a deliberate attack on children by armed groups. Using children as shields or bargaining chips is unacceptable and must stop. The Nigeria government must investigate these attacks as war crimes and crimes against humanity," said Isa Sanusi

"No child should go through what children are going through now in northern Nigeria. Education should not be a matter of life and death for anyone. Nigeria is failing children once again in a horrifying manner," said Isa Sanusi

Attacks on schools, abductions and killings of school children demonstrate an absolute disregard for the right to life and the right to education. The Nigerian authorities must provide protection for schools and children. Attacks on schools are a violation of international law and the authorities must ensure that these attacks are properly investigated, and alleged perpetrators brought to justice in fair trials.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Not only has the Nigerian government consistently failed to take the steps needed to stop attacks and abductions by bandits and other armed groups, some state governments and the police regularly punish those who dare to ask for more protection.

On 8 August 2020, at least 3 people were arrested during a peaceful protest at Refinery Junction, Kaduna South, and on 18 June 2020, at least 20 protesters were arrested and detained for days by police in Katsina State for protesting against banditry.

Those who speak up against the atrocities of gunmen in the north also face sponsored smear campaigns executed by by paid social media influencers: https://t.co/oAbZ6JMg1D

[gst @wearegst]

She spoke against banditry. Now the Governor of Sokoto wants her in jail.

Hamdiyya was beaten, thrown out of a moving vehicle, left with severe injuries and still faces threat to her life.

This is what impunity looks like.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

South-east: The case of Tochukwu Ibeleme Tochukwu Ibeleme, a 25-year-old trader and father of three, was taken from his shop at Aba, Abia state on 15 June 2021 by security agents over alleged membership of IPOB. He has not been seen since. An eyewitness to the abduction narrated the event to Amnesty International in Enugu: “On 15 June 2021, masked armed security agents came with a Hilux van, about seven. They did not ask for anything. They took him. We searched all the police stations within the vicinity but could not find him. We have not seen him from 2021 till today.” “I have not heard anything about him. I have been moving from one police station to the other. I do not know if Tochukwu Ibeleme is still alive.” Where is Tochukwu Ibeleme? This is a question Nigerian security agency must answer.

Sign the petition now and demand for his whereabouts:
https://t.co/tmk0PU9diq

#JusticeforSouthEastNG