- Amnesty International Nigeria has appointed Isa Sanusi as its new Country Director
- Sanusi has seven years of experience with Amnesty International Nigeria, and previously worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC World Service
- Sanusi will lead Amnesty International Nigeria’s research, campaigning, and advocacy work in Nigeria, with a focus on conflicts, human rights education, gender, climate change
Amnesty International has named Isa Sanusi, a human rights activist and former journalist, as its new Country Director for Nigeria.
According to a statement issued by Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi will lead the organization’s research, campaigning, and advocacy work in Nigeria, with a focus on conflicts, human rights education, gender, climate change, and engaging youths in the promotion and protection of human rights.
Amnesty International Nigeria’s impact will be strengthened further with the appointment of Isa Sanusi as Country Director.
He brings seven years of experience to the job, contributing to the organization’s growth and impact in Nigeria, according to Rafsanjani.
Sanusi was Amnesty International Nigeria’s media and communications manager until his new position, which he had held since 2016.
Prior to that, he spent ten years as a broadcast journalist for the BBC World Service and as Assistant Editor at the Daily Trust.
He has also directed a number of human rights projects and trained human rights defenders throughout Nigeria.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in English from Bayero University Kano and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Isa Sanusi was part of the team for years and played a key role in major successful human rights projects. Now, Amnesty International Nigeria will enter a new phase of growth that will include supporting and working with civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and activists to advance human rights, ensure that perpetrators of rights violations are held to account and that victims enjoy access to justice and effective remedies, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani said.
12m households to get N8,000 for six months, says Tinubu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said 12m families will get N8,000 over a period of six months to ameliorate the hardships faced by Nigerians as a result of subsidy removal.
In a letter to the House of Representatives read by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas during plenary on Tuesday, Tinubu said it was support to enable poor and vulnerable Nigerians to cope with the cost of meeting basic needs.
The letter was for approval of additional financing for the national social safety net programme scaled up by the National Assembly.
He said this would have a multiplier effect on about 60 million individuals.