The Lagos State Government has released the much-awaited White Paper on the Judicial Panel of Inquiry report of Lekki Toll Gate October 20, 2020 incident. Governor Jide Sanwo-Olu inaugurated the judicial panel headed by Justice Doris Okuwobi to investigate petitions on police brutality in the state and alleged shootings of protesters on October 20, 2020. […]
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, has spoken for the first time about the report of the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality. The report of the panel was leaked shortly after it was submitted to the Lagos state government on November 15. The findings and recommendations of the panel further deepened the controversy over […]
HUMAN rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, on Monday, said that Lagos State has the constitutional and legal powers to set up a judicial panel of inquiry on any issue just as he tackled the Minister of State for Labour, Mr Festus Keyamo’s, SAN, for faulting the EndSARS Panel set up by the Lagos State […]
Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the federal government cannot declare judicial panels on police brutality illegal after setting them up. Adegboruwa said the #EndSARS panels were established by the directive of the federal government through the National Economic Council (NEC) led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. The report of the Lagos judicial panel, […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the arrest of security operatives involved in the shooting of peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate, and police brutality cases. Young Nigerians had converged at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020, […]
The Police headquarters on Sunday confirmed that a senior Immigration officer, ASI Abdullahi Usman has been arrested for his role in the invasion of the home of Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court located at Imo River Crescent in the Maitama area of Abuja on October 29, 2021, by some men claiming to be […]
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has given reasons why the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, cannot reject the report of the judicial panel on police brutality. In a speech delivered on Thursday when some leaders of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights visited him in Lagos, Falana said, “Pursuant […]
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the National Cancer Control Plan established by the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, to determine why fewer Nigerians with cancer cannot access treatment at the special centres. The House particularly mandated its committees on Health Institutions and Health Care Services to “investigate the Federal […]
The Country Director, Amnesty International, Nigeria, Osai Ojigho, has expressed misgivings over the Federal Government’s reaction to the Lagos EndSARS probe panel report, saying they were not surprised by government’s denial of ‘Lekki Tollgate incident’. The body urged the Federal Government to verify the evidence provided by the report, faulting the manner government was dismissing […]
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria says that the statement by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, rubbishing the report of the Lagos panel on the Lekki shootings, when his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is awaiting the White Paper to be released by the Lagos State Government goes to shows that there […]
