{"id":233305,"date":"2026-05-15T04:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nhrc-demands-explanations-over-civilian-casualties-in-recent-nigerian-military-airstrikes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:13:55","slug":"nigeria-nhrc-demands-explanations-over-civilian-casualties-in-recent-nigerian-military-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nhrc-demands-explanations-over-civilian-casualties-in-recent-nigerian-military-airstrikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NHRC Demands Explanations Over Civilian Casualties in Recent Nigerian Military Airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu, described the repeated reports of civilian casualties from aerial bombardments as &#8220;deeply troubling and incompatible with established human rights and humanitarian law standards.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigeriarights.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Human Rights Commission<\/a><\/strong> (NHRC) has demanded an explanation from the Nigerian Air Force over the recent military airstrikes that killed civilians in different parts of the country, warning that the incidents raise&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605140388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu, described the repeated reports of civilian casualties from aerial bombardments as &#8220;deeply troubling and incompatible with established human rights and humanitarian law standards.&#8221; The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has demanded an explanation from the Nigerian Air Force over the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,16048,20630,16783,6979,54393,3318,257,16430,4687,393,482,254],"class_list":["post-233305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airstrikes","tag-casualties","tag-civilian","tag-demands","tag-explanations","tag-military","tag-news","tag-nhrc","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}