“As our nation returns to the drawing board in the wake of the #EndSARS protests, I have observed with keen interest the policy actions and positions taken by national and subnational governments…” Pastor Tunde Bakare has raised alarm over the freezing of accounts of some notable #EndSARS protesters, warning the federal government that such decision Read more
The Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos, Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, has said the Nigerian Army was unhappy that the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, denied inviting the military on October 20, 2020, following soldiers shooting at the Lekki tollgate, the #EndSARS protesters ground. The general disclosed this on Saturday during Read more
“They are leading this country into a revolution that they don’t want to accept…” President Muhammadu Buhari’s former ally, Buba Galadima, has warned on probable revolution following recent widespread #EndSARS protests across the country. He described the demonstrations against the police brutality and abuse of human rights by the force as a tip of the Read more
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has ordered the deployment of all legitimate force to protect lives and property of citizens including police officers and personnel of other law enforcement agencies and their families, and to prevent attacks on private/public assets from any violent person(s) or group(s) operating under any guise. The Read more
Brig. General Ahmed I. Taiwo, a top military officer on Saturday appeared before Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry to give the Nigerian Army’s testimony on the alleged shooting of EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020 at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos. The Nigerian Army had earlier on Friday filed some papers at the Read more
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, visited President Muhammadu Buhari and presented a report detailing the level of destruction by hoodlums in Lagos. The presentation of the report took place in the office of the President in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. Sanwo-Olu, at the end of his meeting with President Buhari, refused Read more
By NAN The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday described the killing of police officers by hoodlums in some parts of the country as evil. El-Rufai, who spoke to journalists in Kaduna after the meeting of the Northern Governors Forum and traditional rulers as well as other key stakeholders in the region, said the Read more
“It will be very insensitive at this point for anyone to say that the Commission will dismiss any policeman who didn’t return to work.” The attention of the Police Service Commission had been drawn to a publication in a newspaper publication of Saturday, October 31, 2020, reporting that the Police Service Commission will dismiss Police Read more
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has lifted the curfew imposed on the state with immediate effect. This was announced on Saturday in a press release by Gbenga Omotoso, the Lagos Commissioner for Information and Strategy. The statement read: “The curfew imposed on Lagos State after the hijack of the peaceful #EndSARS protests has been Read more
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has inaugurated a 9-Man Committee for the assessment of losses suffered by the Nigeria Police Force during the #EndSARS Protests across the country. The IGP, during the inauguration program which held at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, Friday, 30th October, 2020, noted that the setting up of the Assessment Read more
