Nigeria, April 11 -- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on Friday that it recorded 659,617 complaints from January to March.

The tally represents a sharp decline by about 50 percent from the cumulative 1,171,634 human rights complaints received by the commission in the last quarter of 2025.

PREMIUM TIMES observed that in November 2025 alone, the complaints received were more than half of what it recorded in the first quarter of 2026.

There is no immediate explanation for the steep decline in the number of human rights abuses reported to the commission in the last three months, but the tallies fit with the fluctuating patterns of the records across months.

Friday was the first time the NHRC would release a quarterly repor...