THE Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has awarded N10 million in damages against the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police for violation of the fundamental rights of several peaceful protesters. The suit was filed by applicants who participated during the fourth anniversary of the …
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AMNESTY International has alleged that no fewer than fifteen protesters arrested in 2020 during the Lekki Tollgate shooting are still being detained at the Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre and Ikoyi Medium Security Correctional Centre in Lagos without trial. Trojan News Media reports that Amnesty International asserted this on Friday, October 20, …
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After three years, Lagos State Government on Sunday confirmed that it has prepared the bodies of 103 #EndSARS protest victims for mass burial. The permanent secretary in the ministry of health Olusegun Ogboye in a statement, however, stated that none of the bodies were retrieved from the Lekki tollgate. …
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THE Lagos State Government has claimed that the bodies of 103 victims of #EndSARS protest in 2020 prepared for mass burial, were not from the Lekki tollgate. This was confirmed in a statement released on Sunday. The government claimed the bodies were picked up from different parts of Lagos like …
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The Senate on Wednesday passed for second reading, a bill seeking to compensate victims of the EndSARS protest. The bill entitled, A Bill for an Act to Amend the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Act, was sponsored by Sen. Bassey, Gershom (PDP Cross-River ). Bassey in his lead debate, said …
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Youths in their numbers on Thursday morning showed up with dummy coffins and bloodstained Nigerian flags at Lekki toll gate in Lagos State to commemorate the second-year memorial of the EndSARS protest shooting. The procession passed through the Lekki Tollgate, the scene of the killings that took place on Tuesday, …
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#EndSARS Memorial Holds At Lekki Thursday A memorial has been planned to hold on Thursday at the Lekki area of Lagos to commemorate the killing of citizens at the Lekki Tollgate on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. According to a flier shared by entertainer, Folarin Falana aka Falz the Bahd guy, …
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Ahead of the second year anniversary of the #EndSARS, civil society groups have urged the governors in the South-East to implement the panel report. The groups expressed worry that over eight months after the #EndSARS judicial panel on police brutality submitted its report to the governors, it has yet to …
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Canada has rejected the request of a former member of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Olushola Popoola, seeking asylum in the North American country. Popoola’s application was rejected by the Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board in Canada because he was a member of the defunct unit of the …
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