Nigeria, May 23 -- With rising allegations of incessant harassments, arrests and sometimes 'abductions' of holders of opposing views to state-backed positions, Nigeria's human rights record in the recent time isn't attractive to many social commentators.

The violent attack of protesting workers by those described as hoodlums in Kaduna State recently is one of the many instances to back their claims that the civic space is closing in on Nigerians.

The chronicles of extra-judicial killings during the lockdown announced by the government to curb the rampaging coronavirus pandemic as captured by PREMIUM TIMES' serialised report, and the human rights abuses that characterised the nationwide protests against police brutalities in 2020, have a...