Tag: Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC)

Budget Defence: Group urges Vice Chancellors to defend 2025 estimates, challenges bribery allegations

Lukman Laleye Babalola

A civil society organisation, the Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC), has called on Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities to defend their 2025 budget estimates before the National Assembly, urged them to be transparent about any alleged financial demands from lawmakers.   This comes amid recent media reports alleging that National Assembly Committees on Tertiary Education demanded a minimum of N50 million from federal-owned universities to approve their budget proposals. However, the House of Representatives, through its spokesman, Hon. Akin Rotimi, dismissed the claims, maintained that all budget defence sessions have…

El-Zakzakky: Human Rights Group Hail Proscription Of IMN As A Terrorist Organization

Emporium Reporters

The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) has hailed the proscription of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) as a terrorist organisation, describing it as a “relief to Nigerians”. The Federal Government, on Friday, obtained a court order to banish the Shiite organisation, following violent protests in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Federal High Court Abuja issued the order in a ruling which designated the activities of the Shiite group in any part of Nigeria “as acts of terrorism and illegality.” In a statement signed by…