As Police Arrest 2 FSARS Operatives, 1 Civilian Accomplice in Lagos State The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has banned the personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) and other Tactical Squads officers the Force including the Special Tactical Squad (STS), Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Anti-Cultism Squad and other Tactical Squads […]
• ‘Bill Is Tool Of Oppression, Repression’ • ‘It Could Be Used To Arrest Perceived Political Opponents’ • Sponsor Denies Injecting Contentious Sections Of Bill • ‘We’ll Set Up Committee To Probe Horrendous Inclusions’ Confusion. Anger. Resentment. These are the reactions that are now trailing, afresh, the controversial Imo State Administration of Criminal Justice Law […]
Swedish employers must not prevent their employees from praying during working hours, a Swedish administrative court in Malmö has ruled. The ruling requires employers to allow Muslims’ five daily prayers in the workplace. The Malmö court thus overturned a decision by Bromöll City Council in the south of the country, which explicitly banned prayers during […]
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered immediate detention and orderly room trial of one Inspector Adadu Innocent attached to PMF 22 Ikeja, for hitting and injuring Kayode Jaiyeola, a photojournalist with Punch Newspaper at Maryland, Lagos on Thursday, October 1, 2020 around 11.10am. The police chief, who was monitoring the […]
Human rights lawyers launched a legal challenge on Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing economic sanctions on employees of the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal, arguing it breaches the U.S. constitution. A filing lodged at a district court in New York by the Open Society Justice Initiative, a public interest law centre […]
Men of the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday attacked a photojournalist with The PUNCH , Olukayode Jaiyeola. Jaiyeola, who was part of journalists covering an October 1 protest in the state, was brutalised at the Maryland area of Lagos . The incident happened around 12 noon when a policeman , Innocent Adadu, hit Jaiyeola’ […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and Delta State Police Commissioner (COP) from arresting or detaining ex-Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi. Justice Taiwo Taiwo gave the order in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1267/2020, following Gbagi’s ex parte application for the enforcement of his fundamental rights. Gbagi’s application followed […]
An unemployed man, Solomon Okon , has been in police custody for over a month for allegedly drinking a poisonous substance. It was learnt that the 21-year -old , who was a porter at Havana Hospital, Surulere , Lagos , drank the poisonous substance after receiving a letter terminating his employment. A relative of Okon […]
A foodstuff merchant, Sadia Hassan, on Wednesday prayed a Customary Court sitting in Mapo in Ibadan to dissolve her 16-year-old marriage to estranged husband, Jelili on grounds that he was an unrepentant womaniser and am adulterer. Testifying, Hassan a mother of one, accused her husband of sleeping with her best friend. ”My husband nearly sent […]
… Orders Continuation Of Trial A Kaduna State High court sitting in the state capital has dismissed the motion of no-case-submission filed by the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria(IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zazaky and his wife Zeenat. Both of them are standing trial on eight counts of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption […]
