#EndPoliceBrutality

…Panel has been so magnanimous to us, diligent to fair hearing- Police Counsel …receives two fresh petitions Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings on Friday struck out a petition filed by Mr. Taiwo Segun against the police for lack of …

A 52-year-old widow from Nnungudu Community in the Ibesikpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Promise Akpan, on Wednesday, told the judicial panel investigating incidences of police brutality in the state that her son, Akaniyere, was killed while preparing for the Nigeria Defence Academy in May 2019. Akpan, a …

A total of 233,000 candidates failed to write the 2020 National Examinations Council, NECO’s Senior Schools’ Certificate Examination due to the #EndSARS protests that rocked the country last year. The examination body declared this, Wednesday, during a media briefing in Minna, where it released the 2020 SSCE internal results. Giving …

Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry: Petitioners, counsel laud panel’s high sense of commitment to fair hearing, justice as 10 cases heard at weekend As the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings continued its proceedings, the petitioners and their counsel at …

A widow, Mrs Mfon Udoidiong, from Nkek community in the Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, has told the panel on police brutality that a policeman, Idongesit Ekanem, allegedly killed her son over N100. She said the victim, Imo Udoidiong, was shot dead by the policeman on September …

THE head of the Imiakebu community in the Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, Chief Ugheiemhekhia Yahaya, on Tuesday, asked for N50bn compensation for the alleged murder of five youths by a police officer, John Agaga. Yahaya told the state Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS …

A vigilante group and the Joint Task Force in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, on Sunday foiled a robbery operation in Oka 4, around First Page Hotel in Upper Sakponba, Benin City. The suspects allegedly confessed to burning of police stations and looting of shops in some …

The Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the activities of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and related offences, has struck out a petition by Oyigbo Indigenous Lawyers Association seeking an end to the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in Oyigbo Local Government Area. The petition, which …

The Aseyin of Iseyin, Oba AbdulGaniy Salaudeen, has invited residents of his community to an urgent meeting on the way forward following the closure of banks in the town due to the absence of policemen to protect the financial institutions there. Recall that police stations in Iseyin were looted and …

SIR: In view of renewed agitation for the second wave of #EndSARS protests across Nigeria, it is my humble opinion that the protesters should postpone further actions to allow adequate time for the government to address the fundamental demands appropriately. However, it would be irresponsible and treacherous not to adequately and …