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Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the current constitution of 1999. [1] While Nigeria has made major improvements in human rights under this constitution, the American Human Rights Report of 2012 notes several areas where more improvement is needed, which includes: [2] abuses by Boko Haram, killings by government forces, lack of social equality and issues with freedom of speech.
In 1985, Nigeria's General Ibrahim Babangida assumed power in a coup and promised better bilateral relations, pointing to his own military training in the U.S. [67] In fact, under Babangida's administration, there was growing concern in the U.S. about human rights abuses perpetrated by the military government. [64]
Informal modes of education have formed a foundation for tertiary education in Nigeria for many years and are still at play today. These programs and structures are difficult to study and assess unanimously as they are decentralized and unique in their missions and practices. [ 66 ]
During the early stages of British colonialism, the Yoruba people were the first major ethnic group of Nigeria to be introduced to Western education followed closely by the Igbo people. In contrast, the Northern authorities resisted the efforts of colonialists and Christian missionaries to educate their populace, leading to an imbalance in ...
A History of Nigerian Higher Education, Macmillan. History of Education in Nigeria, 1970. ISBN 0-04-370047-0; New Perspectives in African Education, 1967; Education in Mother Tongue: The Ife Primary Education Research Project, 1970-1978 (Editor) Up and On: A Nigerian Teacher's Odyssey, 1991. ISBN 978-153-096-0; Memoirs of a Nigerian Minister of ...
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...
A West African court has found the Nigerian government guilty of human rights abuses during its suppression of the 2020 #EndSARS protests against alleged police brutality.
Some notions of righteousness present in ancient law and religion are sometimes retrospectively included under the term "human rights". While Enlightenment philosophers suggest a secular social contract between the rulers and the ruled, ancient traditions derived similar conclusions from notions of divine law, and, in Hellenistic philosophy, natural law.