Nigerian youth have recently been echoing their strong desires to leave the country and, although this sentiment is not new, the current uproar is linked to how young people were treated by the government during the End SARS protests of October 2020. Nigerians are known to use regular means to migrate but also some have […]
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Lagos State Government says it has earmarked N15 billion for Rebuilding Project/Trust Fund in the 2021 budget following the destruction of properties by hoodlums after the #EndSARS protest. Sam Egube, Lagos State Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget disclosed this on Thursday while giving the breakdown of the state’s 2021 budget. Egube said the projected […]
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Two petitioners at the Kwara State Judicial Panel of Enquiry investigating cases of police brutality in Ilorin, the state capital have narrated how men of the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) tortured them to implicate former senate president, Bukola Saraki, in the bloody April 5, 2018, Offa robbery incident. The petitioners, Kehinde Gobir and […]
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Nigerian Government is keeping with its long history of setting up commissions of inquiry to probe allegations of state-led human rights abuse. The various judicial panels of inquiry established last year following nationwide demands for police reforms is yet another exercise by the Government that raised hope of an holistic police reform. What is clear […]
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On Saturday, October 10, Jimoh Isiaq, a 23-year-old resident of Ogbomosho, Oyo State was watching the protest against police brutality by students of the Ladoke Akintola University and youths of the town when security personnel started shooting live bullets in the air. It was in the wake of the protest against the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery […]
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The Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI) set up to hear petitions on police brutality sitting in Awka, Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria says it has received a total of 310 petitions as of Wednesday, December 8, 2020. The JPI was set up in most states of Nigeria on the directive of the Federal Government in the […]
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The Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI) sitting Awka has summoned two operatives of Special Anti- Cult Squad (SPAC) Enugu-Ukwu, Anambra Southeast Nigeria over illegal detention of 15-year-old Kodili Okeke. The summon followed the hearing of the petition filed by Peter Okeke, father of the victim against the arrest and illegal detention of his son Kodili. […]
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Muhammed Adamu, Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), says the police would not allow a repeat of the recent violent protests which claimed lives of personnel and destruction of property of the force across the country. Adamu said this at Command Headquarters in Anambra, Southeast Nigeria during a visit to the state on Tuesday. The […]
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On Monday, the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos State deployed personnel at strategic locations in Nigeria’s economic capital in response to calls for a second round of protests under the End SARS campaign across the country. Police personnel were deployed to Lekki tollgate, the site of October 20 shooting of #EndSars protesters by soldiers called […]
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The Lagos State Police Command has claimed that there was no #ENDSARS protest in the state on Monday despite video evidence of a purported renewed protest circulating on social media. There were media reports on Monday that protesters had gathered at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos to commence a second wave of the protest […]
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Victims of military brutality at the Lekki Tollgate Area during a peaceful demonstration by youths in October are being offered bribes and threatened to keep quiet, says Dabiraoluwa Adeyinka, one of the protesters with petitions before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on police brutality. Speaking to The Nation on Friday, Adeyinka said the […]
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Mrs Chidimma Edozieuno, a middle-aged woman whose husband died in the detention of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria has asked that the body of her late husband be released to her for proper burial. Edozieuno who on Thursday testified before the Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI) sitting in Awka, […]
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