#EndPoliceBrutality

The Benin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday commended the Lagos State Judicial Panel on EndSARS for its timely report after the inquiry into the 2020 protests. The Bar expressed its commendation in a statement signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Messrs Pius Oiwoh and Andrew Lawani respectively, …

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters says at least nine persons were confirmed dead at the Lekki toll plaza on the night soldiers stormed there to disperse #EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020. The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel …

Nigerian disc jockey, Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch, has reacted to the report by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters. According to the report submitted by the panel, at least nine persons were confirmed dead at …

The Police in Lagos State are arresting EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. One of them has been identified as Okechukwu Peter. His phone was seized. “Remember those that were killed last year”, he screamed as officers took him away. Another man dressed in a green and red Kangor …

A reporter of Legit TV identified as Abimbola has been reportedly arrested by the police operatives during EndSARS memorial protest at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos State where some Nigerian youths were allegedly gunned down on October 20, 2020. The newsmen reports that despite warnings by the Lagos State Police command against …

The report of the 28-member Judicial Panel of Inquiry constituted to investigate police brutality, human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings by the disbanded police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), in Edo State, has been submitted to Governor Godwin Obaseki. While receiving the report yesterday from the Chairman of the …

The Ondo State High Court sitting in Olokuta Akure, Ondo State, on Monday did not grant bail to Kemisola Ogunniyi, one of the EndSARS protesters , who delivered baby in prison. Ogunniyi was among those who were arrested and standing trial for allegedly vandalising property during the EndSARS protest which …

A worker at the Port Harcourt Refinery Company in Eleme, Rivers State, Chikwu Emmanuel, has lost his sight after operatives of the Anti-Cultism Unit of the state police command allegedly brutalised and detained him over trumped-up charges. Emmanuel said he had surgery on his left eye as a result of …

A petitioner, Marc Chidibere Nwadi, has been awarded N7.5 million by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry set up to investigate cases of police brutality especially involving officers of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The petitioner had complained that he spent six years in the prison without …

The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), has warned against the blockage of roads as a form of protest in the state. Onigbanjo said while the state recognises the rights to peaceful protests, the same cannot extend to blockage of roads including preventing other members of …