Nigeria, May 19 -- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Monday that it recorded 266,787 complaints of human rights violations, a 10,655 increase compared to the month of March.

The NHRC gave the update during its monthly dashboard presentation at the commission's headquarters on Monday.

Hilary Ogbonna, senior human rights adviser to the commission, described the increase as "a pattern we have seen every year."

Among the lists of human rights violations, the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), noted that "alleged abuses linked to law enforcement activities remained major concerns during the period under review."

"In the month of April, the NHRC observatory recorded over five suc...