police brutality
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Armed Violence
Five Years After He Killed a UNIJOS Student, Nigerian Police Officer Faces Death Sentence
Ruya Auta, the Nigerian police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Rinji Bala on May 13, 2020, has been sentenced…
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Analyses
Miscarriage, Childbirth in Jail: The Failure of Nigeria’s Criminal Justice System
She lost her pregnancy in prison in what she describes as “a miscarriage of justice”. The experience Ayodele Bukunmi had…
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Featured
Secrets, Silence, Survival: Inside a Nigerian Military Prison
No one recalls the road to Wawa. New detainees are blindfolded several kilometres ahead. Inmates are also blindfolded and driven…
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News
How Nigeria Police Force ‘Betrayed’ Its Own Officers Despite Senate Intervention
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Before donning the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) uniform, Amos Olaniyan, in the…
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Features
Sankera: Unending Agony in Benue Community After Police Raid
“They’re raiding the house! Armed security personnel… they’ve set it on fire!” The panic in his uncle’s voice sent icy…
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Investigations
From Protectors to Predators: The Lives Lost to Lagos’ Anti-Cultism War
“Digbolu-Kolu.” The name is synonymous with the forgotten victims of an anti-cultism war in the Eti-Osa area of Lagos, South…
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Human Rights
Police Harassment Claims Force Closure of Paintball Arena in Nigeria’s Keffi
It was a calm June evening in Keffi, North-central Nigeria. The last rays of the setting sun bathed Mairamri Arena,…
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