“Ole, ole!” (thief, thief!) “Stone him!” “Kill him!” The above are sometimes all that need to be screamed in Nigeria for a large crowd to beat a crime suspect to stupor or burn him alive, with overzealous youths taking pictures and videos for social media audiences. Even when many Nigerians are aware that the inhumane […]
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Hezekiah Olujobi, born on Aug. 8, 1963, suffered unlawful detention at Agodi prison in Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria between Jan. 1987 and March 1993, on allegations of armed robbery which he insists he knew nothing about. While in the correctional centre, he met many inmates who were either awaiting trial or serving jail term […]
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Susan Innocent* was merely 15 when she was allegedly raped by Pastor McDouglas Omosokpea of the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church at Oshodi, Lagos. The teenager tells HumAngle that for three years, the cleric sexually molested her repeatedly until she attempted suicide in 2019. Findings by HumAngle revealed that the cleric had invited the victim for […]
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In 2017, Joshua Anyoha, a graduate of Lagos State University, lost his job. From then, he struggled to make a living as a real estate agent, dabbled into car dealerships, and anything legal he felt could put food on the table for his wife and three children. But the economy was hard and life remained […]
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Many Nigerians have continued to condemn the unlawful arrest of Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, and other activists who were arrested by Nigerian security forces on new year’s eve. Sowore and other activists were arrested at Gudu junction in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital during a peaceful protest tagged #CrossoverWithProtest, and are currently being detained at […]
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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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Youths in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, burnt down four police stations on Wednesday over the killing of two commercial motorcyclists. HumAngle learnt that a man identified as Ebere was shot dead on Tuesday night by police personnel suspected to be from Igbo-Ukwu Division in Aguata Local Government Area of the state. The policemen were said […]
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Some residents of Kankara, Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria on Sunday staged a protest over the abduction of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, on Friday by a group of terrorists and demanded their quick rescue. The protest was led by a woman who claimed to be a mother of one of the children. The […]
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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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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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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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