Amnesty International has called on the Federal Government not to violate the rights of Nigerians who stage peaceful protests in the country.

The Director of Amnesty International in Nigeria, Ms Osai Ojigho, said this in a statement on Tuesday while condemning the disruption of a protest by members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) in Abuja.

Members of the group had stormed the Wuse area in the Federal Capital Territory, to demand the release of their leader Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, from detention.

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday, said it arrested 115 Shiite members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria ( IMN) during a violent protest in Abuja.

The police also debunked stories in the social media that some lives were lost.

“No life was lost in the violent protest as the police operatives deployed to quell the protest were professional in handling the situation,”the police spokesman, DSP Anjuguri Manzah said.

The Senate has faulted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for the clash between it, the Department of State Services and the Nigerian Intelligence Agency.

The Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu; and the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.), were particularly accused of not following due process in the operation that caused the clash.

The Senate had resolved to investigate the November 21, 2017, showdown between officials of the DSS and the EFCC in Abuja.

Barely one week after President Muhammadu Buhari blamed the rise in attacks by suspected herdsmen on foreign militia once trained by Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, the United States military Monday expressed great concern over incessant attacks by foreign extremists in Nigeria and other West African countries.

Speaking at the African Land Forces Summit in Abuja, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Africa, Brig.-Gen. Eugene LeBoeuf, said insecurity and terrorism in Nigeria and other West African nations have been fuelled by the invasion of foreign extremists in the region.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Mr. Carl Risch, will be visiting Nigeria to review consular operations at the U.S. Consulate in Lagos.

The U.S. Department of State said Mr. Risch would journey to Nigeria, Morocco and Ethiopia from April 15 to 21.

A 53-year-old Italian Peter Nielsen, who allegedly murdered his Nigerian wife and singer, Zainab Ali-Nielsen, and their four-year-old daughter, Petra, at their home at Banana Island, Ikoyi Lagos, was on Wednesday remanded in Ikoyi Prisons on the orders of a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

The Magistrate, Mrs K.B. Ayeye, who gave the ruling, said the accused should be reminded pending counsel from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).