Perspectives of Human Rights, Fundamental Rights and the Historical Evolution of the Nigerian Police Force

Abstract

Despite more than a decade of democratic governance and endorsement of universal declaration of human rights charter, Nigerians still face a lot of human rights abuses. Cases of human rights violations is becoming a culture of impunity in the country includes extra-judicial killings, illegal detention, destruction of property by security forces etc. The aim of this paper is to examine the concept of Human rights, fundamental human rights and the historical evolution of the Nigerian Police Force.