Tag: Lekki Toll Gate
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#EndSARS: Forensic team denies indicting Nigerian Army, says integrity of Lekki Toll Gate compromised before analysis
The forensic team that presented its report to the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Friday said the integrity of the scene of the Lekki Toll Gate shooting had been compromised long before forensic investigations. Managing Director of Sentinel Forensics Limited, Mr Joseph Funsho-Ako, explained that the compromise was because the team visited the toll gate,…
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![[JUST IN] #EndSARS: Forensic expert confirms bullets fired at protesters in Lekki Toll Gate from Nigerian Army](https://thenewsguru.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Lagos-Panel-Bullet.jpg)
[JUST IN] #EndSARS: Forensic expert confirms bullets fired at protesters in Lekki Toll Gate from Nigerian Army
A forensics company, Sentinel Forensic Limited, has said that bullets expelled from firearms during the #EndSARS protest in Lagos on October 20, 2020, were from the Nigerian Army.
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#EndSARS: Company reveals who gave orders to turn off billboard at Lekki Toll Gate
Loatsad Promo-media Ltd, the company that manages the billboard advertising at the Lekki Toll gate concluded its testimony on Saturday before the Lagos State Judicial Panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters. Last week, the Company Secretary, Abimbola Eniola appeared before the panel in response to summons issued on it…
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#EndSARS: New twist as witness plays video that claims Army shot protesters at Lekki Toll Gate
The Lagos State judicial panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses resumed sitting on Saturday with the continuation of the testimony of an EndSARs co-ordinator, Serah Ibrahim. Serah came along with several videos, some of which she said she shot personally with her iPhone. One after the other, she played the videos which…
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Falana blasts U.S. Govt: Your report on Lekki Toll Gate shootings contradictory, misleading
Popular human rights activist and lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) on Thursday said a report by the United States of America (U.S.A) on Lekki Toll Plaza killings is contradictory and misleading. He also said the report was prejudicial in view of the current sitting of the panel of enquiry set up by the Lagos State government…
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#EndSARS Protests: Claims of killings at Lekki Toll Gate unverified – U.S. Government
The United States Government has said that information on the number of fatalities recorded during the #ENDSARS protests in Lekki Tollgate last year, is not available. According to the US Department of State’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, “Accurate information on fatalities resulting from the shooting was not available at year’s end”. It…
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#EndSARS: ‘Who ordered the shootings at Lekki Toll Gate?’, Nigerians ask five months after incident
Young Nigerians have again taken to their social media accounts to demand answers to the perpetrators of the ugly incident at the Lekki Toll Gate five months after. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG recalls that protesters who were demanding an end to police brutality and good governance in the country had converged at the toll gate before being…
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![[Photos/Video] Police deploy heavily armed operatives to Lekki ahead of planned protests today](https://thenewsguru.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Police-Lekki-i.jpg)
[Photos/Video] Police deploy heavily armed operatives to Lekki ahead of planned protests today
Less than 24 hours to the planned protest at the Lekki Toll Gate by some aggrieved youths, police authorities in the state have launched a show of force exercise to express its disapproval of the protest. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that policemen from the Rapid Response team staged a walk round the toll gate on Friday…
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[TRENDING] #OccupyLekkiTollGate: Nigerians launch fresh protests over reopening of Lekki Tollgate
Sequel to the decision of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry to reopen the Lekki Tollgate, many Nigerians mostly youths, have taken to social media announcing intentions to stage another protest. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that youth representatives at panel on Saturday had opposed the reopening of the Lekki toll gate arguing that reopening the…
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#ENDSARS: Lagos panel hands over Lekki Toll Gate to owners, approves reopening
The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for victims of police brutality and other related matters has returned control of the Lekki toll gate plaza to its owners, the Lekki Concession Company (LCC). During the proceedings on Saturday, the Chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi, gave a ruling allowing the Lekki Concession Company (LCC)…