Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa who was a member of the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, has said that the leaked Lagos State Government memo on the mass burial of 103 victims of the October 2020 EndSARS protest is one of many surprises to come. Speaking in an interview which aired on Channels Television on Saturday, July 29, Adegboruwa stated that there is …
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The Osun State Police Command has warned residents of the state against holding any street protest in commemoration of the one year anniversary of ENDSARS today October 20. In a press statement released by the command’s spokesperson SP Opalola Yemisi Olawoyin, the command stated that “The intelligence that availed the police command revealed clandestine plans by some youths/group of people to embark on protest in commemoration of one year anniversary of ENDSARS saga which is scheduled to hold tomorrow 20th October, 2021.” …
Ahead of the anniversary of the October 20 2020 #EndSARS protest in Lagos where gunshots were fired at protesters at the Lekki tollgate, singer Falz has said Nigerian youths will not be silenced by anyone. In a post shared on his Instagram page this evening, the singer reacted to the decision of the state Commissioner of Police barring interested persons from staging any EndSARS remembrance protest. Falz in his post said innocent people were killed just because they were …
Human rights activist, Femi Falana has said that the police lacks the power to ban public protests in Nigeria. Reacting to Lagos state police command’s threat to “suppress planned protests” in commemoration of last year’s #EndSARS protests while appearing on Channels Television on Thursday October 14, Falana averred that the police’s stance is “illegal as they constitute a gross infringement of the fundamental rights of the Nigerian people to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly guaranteed by sections 38 and …
The Lagos state judicial panel on police brutality has suspended its sitting indefinitely. Making the announcement on Saturday September 18, the retired judge heading the panel, Doris Okwuobi also revealed that they are supposed to work on two reports before concluding its sitting on October 19, but little progress has been made on them. Okwuobi said when they find themselves in a comfortable position, they will be sending hearing notices to cases that are being listed. She said; “There are two reports that …
Nigerian On-Air-personality, Umoh Unyine, is excited as she is set to say ”I do” to her fiance. In a post shared on her Facebook page, Umoh revealed that she and her fiance met during the #ENDSARS prayer walk protest in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. Nigerian youths took to the streets in October 2020 to stage the #ENDSARS protest to demand an end to police brutality across the country. Some Christians took the protest a notch higher by staging prayer …