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IGP Disowns Suit Challenging Judicial Panels, Orders Investigation

3Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria, Security

IGP Disowns Suit Challenging Judicial Panels, Orders Investigation

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has launched an investigation to unravel the circumstances behind a suit allegedly filled at a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to stop the various panels probing allegations of rights abuses against police officials. Reports had emerged of a suit seeking to among others, an order restraining the Attorney-General of the 36 states and the panels of inquiry they constituted, from continuing with investigations of the activities of the disbanded Special Ant-Robbery Squad (SARS). Judicial panels of inquiry have been sitting in most states in the country probing allegations of police misconduct following nationwide #EndSARS protests by youths. Reacting to the development, the IGP in a statement issued by DCP Frank Mba, Force Public Rel...

Lai Mohammed Chides CNN Over Clarification of its #EndSARS Tweet

28Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Lai Mohammed Chides CNN Over Clarification of its #EndSARS Tweet

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture has reprobated Cable News Network, CNN, for backtracking on its earlier reports on the shootings at the Lekki tollgate area of Lagos State by clarifying tweets posted on its official Twitter handle. CNN on Thursday admitted it misreported the death toll at the Lekki incidence, noting that tweet on October 23 did not emphatically state that the death toll was from protest across the country. It also denied attributing the number of casualties, 38, to Amnesty International. The clarification comes on the back of a war of words between the Federal Government and the media establishment on factual report of the alleged of peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the toll gate area on the night of October 20, 2020. CNN had on October 23 r...

Lekki Shooting Reports: CNN is Desperate – Lai Mohammed

25Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Lekki Shooting Reports: CNN is Desperate – Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has indicted Cable News Network (CNN) for desperation after its second on the shootings at the Lekki tollgate area of Lagos State that took place on the night of October 20. He disclosed this on Wednesday while appearing on an NTA programme. CNN had on Tuesday released a second investigative report on the shootings at Lekki toll gate plaza that occurred during #EndSARS protests. Reacting to the report, Mohammed countered CNN’s reports, noting they lacked credible sources to substantiate the claims. The minister had initially threatened to sanction CNN after it released the first report. Speaking on the second report, the minister said, “It shows that they (CNN) are desperate. The so-called recent development has been seen be...

Why We’re Not Suing Arrested Looters – Oyo Lawmaker

23Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Youths

Why We’re Not Suing Arrested Looters – Oyo Lawmaker

Oyo State federal lawmaker, Senator Teslim Folarin has said his decision not to seek redress against looters arrested in connection with carting away with multi-million-naira empowerment materials in his Ibadan residence was in consideration of the difficult economic condition that informed the recent violence in the country. Thugs who took over the peaceful #EndSARS protests in Ibadan had broken into Folarin’s Oluyole Estate residence in Ibadan, stealing about 300 motorcycles, freezers, power generating sets and grinding machines procured for December empowerment in the lawmaker’s constituency. Folarin who represents Oyo Central Senatorial District of Oyo State at the Senate, in an interview during a youth training in modern agriculture techniques rebuffed assumptions by many who th...

Lekki Shooting: Soldiers Took Live Bullets to Scene for Self-defence – General Taiwo

22Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Armed Forces, Crime, Human Rights, Judiciary, Justice, Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Security

Lekki Shooting: Soldiers Took Live Bullets to Scene for Self-defence – General Taiwo

Brigadier General Ahmed Taiwo, Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos, which was the Army unit deployed to the Lekki Tollgate area on the night of October 20, has admitted that the officers went to the scene with Live and blank bullet. He said that the Phase four of military internal security operation which the Army deployed involved soldiers taking live ammunition to the scene for self defence. He noted that some officers that operated at the tollgate on the night of the shooting were indeed armed with live bullets. Taiwo, however stressed that only soldiers with blank bullets shot into the air. He disclosed this on Saturday during the hearing of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry, investigating the alleged killing of peaceful #EndSARS de...

#EndSARS: Arrested Protester, Eromosele, Regains Freedom After 12 Days

19Nov

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Human Rights, Justice, Nigeria, Youths

#EndSARS: Arrested Protester, Eromosele, Regains Freedom After 12 Days

Social activist, Eromosele Adene, has finally regained his freedom from unjust detention of the Nigeria Police Force. Adene was arrested by the police on November 7 from his home in Ikeja, Lagos. He was taken to Abuja for interrogation before he was returned to Lagos for trial after 10 days. He was arraigned in court on four count charges of cyber-stalking and activities likely to cause breach of peace. He was granted bail on Tuesday by Magistrate Folarin Williams of the Yaba Magistrate Court. Despite meeting his bail condition, the police failed to release him until Thursday following public pressure. Source: SaharaReporters

Names of Seven ‘Lekki Shootings Victims’ Surface at Lagos Panel

14Nov

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Nigeria, Security, Uncategorized, Violence, Youths

Names of Seven ‘Lekki Shootings Victims’ Surface at Lagos Panel

The names of seven alleged victims of the October 20 Lekki shootings have ‘surfaced’ at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters. Their lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika SAN, told the panel that he had a petition on their behalf against the Nigerian Army. Olumide-Fusika sought directions from Justice Doris Okuwobi (Rtd)-led a panel on how to proceed with the petitions. Source: The Nation

Nigerian Army Testifies Before Lagos Panel, Claims Officers Fired Blank Bullets into the Air

14Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, Human Rights, Judiciary, Justice, Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Security, Violence

Nigerian Army Testifies Before Lagos Panel, Claims Officers Fired Blank Bullets into the Air

Officers of the Nigerian Army on Saturday appeared before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry Inaugurated to probe the shooting of peaceful #EndSaRS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate area of Lagos State on October 20. Speaking on behalf of the Army, Brigadier Ahmed Taiwo, Commander 81 military intelligence brigade which was reported to be unit deployed to the Lekki area claimed that the military fired shots into the air and not at protesters, backing its claim with several footages of what happened at the scene, Channels reports. He added that the officers used blank bullets that contain gun powder, and unable to inflict injury to the flesh. He said that if real bullets were used, one bullet was capable of killing three persons per shot. According to him, hoodlums went on to ...

Army Personnel Arrive Probe Venue, to Present Footage of Lekki Shootings

14Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, Human Rights, Judiciary, Justice, Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Violence

Army Personnel Arrive Probe Venue, to Present Footage of Lekki Shootings

Army personnel attached to the 81 Division, have arrived the venue of the inquiry into the alleged shooting of peaceful #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate area of Lagos on October 20. The Army had submitted the names of three Lieutenant Generals and a Lieutenant Colonel who will testify before the panel in response to invitation by the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-headed Judicial Panel of Inquiry, Punch reports. The probe is to take place at the Lagos Court of Arbitration. The Army, which vehemently denied shooting at or killing any of the protesting youths, had also told the panel that it was ready to show videos capturing its activities at the tollgate on October 20 night. Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, the Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria ...

CBN Faults #EndSARS Promoters for Terrorism

11Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, Judiciary, News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

CBN Faults #EndSARS Promoters for Terrorism

Following the nationwide #EndSARS protests, the Federal Government has secured the freezing of accounts of 20 #EndSARS promoters after approaching a Federal High Court in Abuja on the basis that the funds might have been linked to terrorist activities. This was revealed in a written address in support of a motion ex parte filed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The apex bank froze the accounts of 20 #EndSARS campaigners thereafter sought an ex parte order from the court. However, CBN in the suit filed before Justice A, R Mohammed made no mention of the fact that 20 accounts frozen were owned by individuals that partook in the #EndSARS protest but alleged that the fuds might have come from terrorist activities. The written address partly read, “My lord, the nature of the tra...