National Human Rights Commission NHRC has lamented over the rising increase in human rights violations in Nigeria.
Senior Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Hilary Ogbonna, expressed the worries at the inauguration of the maiden edition of human rights dashboard and observatory.
According to Ogbonna, the observatory is to record the daily human rights complaints by Nigerians across the 36 states and the FCT.
He added that the Human Rights Observatory was for monitoring, reporting and analysis of the human rights violations across Nigeria.
He added it was also for the documentation, analysis and dissemination of Human rights complaints.
Presenting the dashboard, Ogbonna expressed regrets that the North-Central zone topped in rights violations with Abuja having 382 out of 1147 complaints in January.
