#EndPoliceBrutality

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 …

The Lagos State Government has urged youths not to protest at the Lekki tollgate on Saturday, February 13. The Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotosho, made the appeal during an interview on Arise TV on Thursday. Some youths had threatened to hold a fresh protest at the Lekki tollgate …

The Federal Government has said it will not allow the destabilization of Nigeria and the perpetration of violence in the country under the guise of #EndSARS protest. This was stated by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday ahead of a …

Youths have announced plans to organise a counter-protest at the Lekki tollgate on Saturday, February 13. This is coming a few hours after some youths took to Twitter to call for a protest against the reopening of the Lekki tollgate. It was had reported that the Lagos State Judicial Panel …

Some youths have threatened to hold a fresh protest at the Lekki tollgate over plans to reopen it for operations. It was gathered that they have begun to mobilise on social media with #RevolutionNow and #OccupyLekkiTollGate, with the matter trending as number one and three on Twitter. As of 11 …

As the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings resumed proceedings on Thursday, one of the petitioners, Mr. Amos Adeyemi, has narrated his ordeals at the hands of the officers and men of the Nigeria Police on how he was brutalised …

…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 …