Nigeria: Human Rights Commission Orders Probe of Rivers Crisis

16 January 2014

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, on Wednesday during a meeting in Abuja called for an urgent action to verify facts about the on-going crisis in Rivers State.

The council said it believed that if the crisis was not stalled, there could be further deterioration of law and order in the state.

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