The Police Service Commission has deferred its decision in the case involving the suspended former Commander of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari over his alleged connection with the suspected fraudster, Abbas Ramon commonly called Hushpuppi. The PSC is also insisting that a new […]
A Chief Pathologist with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Dr. Sunday Soyemi, has told the Coroner Inquest into the controversial death of Sylvester Oromoni, that a blackish substance was found in the boy’s intestine during autopsy. While answering questions on Tuesday under cross-examination from Counsel to the Oromoni family, Femi Falana (SAN), […]
Aghoho Owhojede, doctor to the family of Sylvester Oromoni, the deceased student of Dowen College in Lagos, has testified that there isn’t evidence to establish the 12-year-old consumed any chemical substance. Oromoni died last November after he was alleged to have been beaten by five colleagues for refusing to join a cult. His father […]
Commissioner of Police , Lagos State Police Command, AIG Hakeem Odumosu, yesterday, advised those who are not satisfied with the autopsy and Toxicology reports on the late Sylvester Oromoni ,to visit the Coroner Inquest which will begin today in Lagos, to register their grievances or seek redress in the court. He warned that the Police […]
The Coroner of the Epe District of Lagos, Magistrate Mikail Olukayode Kadiri has fixed Saturday, the 15th of January for the commencement of inquest into the cause of death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki. In a letter dated, 4th January 2022 and addressed to the law firm of Falana & […]
The Lagos State Tribunal of Inquiry into the collapse of the 21-storey building on Gerrard Road in Ikoyi has submitted its report to the state government. Presenting the report on Wednesday at the Governor’s Office in Alausa, the Tribunal Chairman, Toyin Ayinde, stated that the team was able to execute the assignment successfully. He explained […]
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has summoned some police officers serving at the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Alagbon, Lagos, to report to the Special Investigation Panel, Force Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday, for allegedly extorting two youths of N22m worth of bitcoin at gunpoint. This is as the police boss ordered a probe of the […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP, has urged the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila to promptly probe fresh allegations that N10 billion of public money budgeted for the National Assembly is missing, misappropriated or diverted. SERAP said the grim allegations that N10,051,283,568.82 of public money is […]
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says the white paper on the report submitted by the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality is illegal. On November 15, the Lagos judicial panel submitted two documents — a consolidated report on police brutality and an investigation into the Lekki shooting incident — to the state government. After receiving […]
Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), on Wednesday, tackled the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), over claim that the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters mismanaged funds. Adegboruwa, who is a member of the Justice Doris Okuwobi panel, which probed the EndSARS […]
