The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, revealed on Friday in Abuja that the country recorded 1,580 human rights violations in the six geopolitical zones in March alone.

The rights violations included killings, kidnapping, domestic violence, abductions, children’s rights, among others.

Making this public at the National Human Rights Commission headquarters, its senior human rights adviser, Mr Hilary Ogbonna, said North Central topped the list of the complaints of human rights violations with 468 cases.

At the presentation of the findings attended by the Executive Secretary of the Human Rights Commission and Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, Dr. Tony Ojukwu, Ogbonna explained that the police, military, and Department of State Services, DSS, grouped as state actors recorded 94 rights violations cases.

The human rights adviser, who explained that the killings of the military and police personnel in Delta State formed part of the report, revealed that 542 cases of violation of children’s rights were also recorded during the period.