‘Refer Nigeria to Security Council over abductions, killings,’ SERAP urges UN
chief Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres “to urgently invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter and bring Nigeria’s escalating insecurity—marked by mass abductions, killings, attacks on civilians, mass displacement, and other grave human rights violations—to the attention of the UN Security Council.”SERAP said, “Nigeria’s escalating insecurity and grave human rights violations are reflected in repeated abductions, killings, attacks on civilians, and mass displacement in Oyo, Benue, Borno, Plateau, Kaduna, Zamfara, and several other parts of the country.”In the open letter dated 30 May 2026 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said: “The scale, persistence, and regional implicati...
