Nigeria, March 16 -- Amnesty International Nigeria has asked President Bola Tinubu to investigate extrajudicial killings in south-east Nigeria.

The human rights group said in a statement posted on its X handle on Thursday that Nigerian security forces led by the military carried out "extrajudicial executions and violence" in the region from August 2015 to August 2016.

It said at least 150 "peaceful pro-Biafra protesters" in the South- east were killed by the security forces during the operations within the period.

Giving an instance of the extrajudicial killings, Amnesty said residents of Abia State discovered 13 corpses in a pit along the Aba - Port Harcourt Expressway on 13 February 2016, four days after shootings at the National Hig...