#EndSars

The Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has faulted the procedure adopted in the release of a document said to be the report of the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry on police brutality. The leaked report had indicted officers of the Nigerian Army for killing “unarmed helpless and defenseless protesters, without provocation or justification, […]

The United States on Tuesday said it was looking forward to a response from the Lagos State Government after the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry submitted its final report. The panel was commissioned by the state government to look into the events of October 2020, including the shootings at the Lekki Toll Gate, and […]

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters has concluded that the Nigerian Army shot and killed unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020. The Panel’s findings were disclosed in its report obtained by Channels Television on Monday. According to the Panel, […]

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to stop the judicial panels of inquiry set up by state governors to probe allegations of police brutality and human rights abuses of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The NPF, through […]

The Nigerian government has reacted to the deliberations on the recent #EndSARS protest by the United Kingdom parliament. It stated that while debates on all matters were allowed, the UK parliament does not speak for the British government. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, made the position of the Federal Government known while […]

The Federal Government says popular disc jockey, Obianuju Catherine Udeh, fondly referred to as DJ Switch, “will be exposed” soon over her claims on the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki toll plaza on October 20, 2020. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known at a press conference […]

A Magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos State, has granted bail to the embattled #EndSARS protester, Peter Eronmosele Adene, in the sum of one million naira. The court granted the bail on Tuesday after it rejected a request by the police for an order to detain him for another 30 days, to enable them conclude investigations […]

A former National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muiz Banire, says the court order on the freezing of #EndSARS Protesters’account is flawed. Banire disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “In my very strong view, the order is flawed. The order granted by the judge to enable […]

A human rights activist, Mr Kenechukwu Okeke, has filed a criminal complaint Against 50 persons including musicians Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, Davido and the Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi for their roles in the #EndSARS protests that took place nationwide in October. Okeke sued them before a Chief Magistrate Court in Abuja […]

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that all Nigerians and celebrities, who promoted protests against police brutality in the country must face the law. The Central Bank of Nigeria had recently frozen the account of some protest organisers in a bid to stop further protests from occurring.  The Nigeria Immigration […]