Human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has urged the Lagos State Government to implement the recommendations of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry, set up to investigate cases of police brutality and other SARS-related crimes. Falana said this in a statement signed on Tuesday, a day after a leaked report from […]
The United States of America has said it welcomes the final report by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the EndSARS protests of October 2020. The PUNCH reported that the panel’s report was submitted in a brief ceremony at the Lagos State Government House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday. According to the report, […]
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to publicly apologize to the youth for using state actors to abruptly undermine the ENDSARS protest in 2020. “That for the purpose of restitution, healing and reconciliation the federal Government […]
The Lagos State Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS-Related Abuses and Other Matters has admitted that there was a massacre at Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020. In a 309-page report submitted to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State, on Monday, the panel said soldiers shot live ammunition at armless protesters with the […]
The Lagos judicial panel on police brutality has submitted its report to the state government. The report was submitted on Monday to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of the state, at the government house, Ikeja, Lagos. The panel submitted two sets of reports — a consolidated report on police brutality cases and the Lekki incident investigation. On […]
Babatunde Fashola, minister for works and housing, says he does not know what happened to the video camera he recovered at the Lekki tollgate after the #EndSARS protests. Following the Lekki tollgate shooting in October 2020, Fashola, while visiting the scene alongside fellow ministers and south-west governors, discovered a hidden camcorder which he said must […]
The senate has condemned the invasion of the Abuja home of Mary Odili, a justice of the supreme court. The upper legislative chamber condemned the incident after Betty Apiafi, senator representing Rivers west, drew the attention of her colleagues to the invasion. Security operatives on October 29 invaded the house of Odili on the claim […]
The interrogation of socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu aka Obi Cabana, entered the third day, on Wednesday, without any hint of when he would perfect his bail and leave the anti-graft agency in Abuja. An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, confirmed to Vanguard that the businessman was still being grilled and that his release […]
The Warrant issued by FCT Magistrate for search on Justice Mary Peter Odili’s residence shows that alleged illegal activities are suspected to be going on in the house. The Search Warrant sighted by TheNigerialawyer(TNL), stated that illegal activities were suspected to Prove to Crime at No 9 Imo Street, Maitama, Abuja. Consequently, one Lawrence Ajodo, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday denied it carried out an operation on the home of Justice Mary Odili. Reports of a raid on her home were condemned by the Commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, who noted that none of its officers carried out any operation on the Justice’s home. There had been […]
