Tag: POLICE BRUTALITY
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JUST IN: Police officers in viral video harassing travelers arrested
Police officers in viral video harassing travelers arrested
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Trending video: 72 hours to #EndSARS anniversary watch police brutality on Kogi express road
Trending video: 72 hours to #EndSARS anniversary watch police brutality on Kogi express road
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EndSARS protest opened our eyes – Gov Okowa
Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said the EndSARS protest embarked on by Nigerians youths in 2020 to end police brutality opened the eyes of leaders to the suffering Nigerians pass through. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Governor Okowa stated this on Friday while receiving the report of the State’s Judicial Panel of Inquiry into complaints of…
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Court awards N200m damages to two late victims of police brutality in Bauchi
A Federal High Court sitting in Bauchi has delivered a landmark judgement in favour of three victims of police brutality and extrajudicial killing in the state. The court was convinced that two of the victims – Ibrahim Babangida and Ibrahim Sama’Ila – were tortured to death by the police after being accused of stealing 24…
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A peep into police brutality – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku Just stopping by to guess at what could be behind the incessant police brutality. It has got to a level where there is need to x-ray the situation with a view to identifying the root cause or causes. I got emotional while reading, the other day, about a woman who was crying…
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BREAKING: Lagos Judicial panel awards petitioner N7.5 million for police brutality [Photo]
The Lagos State judicial panel hearing cases of police brutality and SARS-related abuses has awarded a petitioner, Marc Chidibere Nwadi the sum on N7.5 million. Chidiebere Nwadi first appeared before the panel on Saturday, November 28 before the panel where he testified that he hated the Nigerian police since 1999. The 39-old who appeared without…
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BREAKING: NPF asks court to stop judicial panels from probing police brutality
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to stop the judicial panels of inquiry set up by State Governors to probe allegations of police brutality and human rights abuses against the force. Following the #EndSARS protests, state governors were directed by the National…
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Ruggedman tackles police brutality in first episode of talk show
Michael Stephens, popular rapper better known as Ruggedman, has unveiled ‘What’s Happening With Ruggedman’, his new talk show. The first episode, dubbed “He Killed My Father”, focused on cases of police brutality in the country against the backdrop of the #EndSARS protest. It also featured Opeyemi, daughter of Onajide Onalaja, a police sergeant, whose father…
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#EndSARs protest: IPC condest police brutality on photojournalist [Photos]
The International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos-Nigeria, has condemned the police brutality on Akpokona Omafuaire a reporter/photojournalist with Vanguard Newspaper, Friday, October 23, 2020, on his way to an official assignment during the 48hours curfew imposed by the Delta State Governor. Report from Vanguard Newspaper states that, “overzealous police officers at Oviwian-Aladja Police Station, Udu Local…
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#EndSARS: Before it happens next time
By Mufutau Ojo It started somewhat as a whimper of protest against the excesses of the police. Today, the simmering #EndSARS protest has veered out of control and has assumed a life of its own, having been infiltrated by hordes of street urchins and hoodlums who set fire to critical public assets as well as…