The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that it has begun an investigation into the allegation that the Nigerian Army has been running a secret abortion programme for female officers since 2013. Recall that a report by the Reuters had alleged that the Nigerian Army had been running a secret abortion programme for rescued women and girls for which about 10,000 pregnancies have been aborted since 2013. But the military had denied the report.
Reuters, had, in an investigative report, alleged that the Nigerian military ran the programme, secretly terminating at least 10,000 pregnancies of freed captives of Boko Haram terrorists over the years.
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President, of Rebuild Nigeria Initiative, Ituah Ighodalo will on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, lead personalities to Antwerp, Belgium for the first International Peace Dialogue For Nigeria.