The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed 37 officers of the dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS while the Police Service Commission PSC is expected to order the prosecution of 24 others for various acts of misconduct The list of the affected officers are as follows. , Abayomi Shogunle,AP No 42056; Dominic […]
Year: 2020
Protests against police brutality record big gain as FG panel recommends sack of 37 SARS officers
The Presidential panel on Reform of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad set up by the Federal government in 2018 to reform SARS has recommended the sack of 37 officers of the defunct unit and 24 others for prosecution . The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission,Tony Ojukwu,who presented […]
EFCC arraigns alleged ponzi scheme operator, Umanah
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Friday, arraigned Umanah Umanah, alleged notorious ponzi scheme operator. Umanah was arraigned before Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court in Uyo on a two-count charge bordering on forgery, obtaining by false pretence, fraud and […]
Coronavirus infects 181 students , staff of private boarding school in Lagos
The Lagos State Government has announced that 181 students and staff of a private boarding school located in a suburb of Lekki, have tested positive for coronavirus. The state Commissioner for Health Prof.Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this on Friday said the students and staff tested positive for coronavirus during surveillance […]
Group asks EFCC to probe former APC chairman, Oshiomhole
A group known as Concerned Edo Citizens has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to probe alleged impunity and corruption perpetrated by the Adams Oshiomhole’s administration in the construction and procurement of equipment for Edo Specialist Hospital The group in a peaceful protest to the Benin Zonal […]
Oshiomhole’s suspension, prerequisite for progress of party-Edo APC
The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), has asked the National Caretaker Committee led by Yobe State Governor,Mai Mala Buni to uphold the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole, former National Chairman as a prerequisite for the progress of the party in the state. In a statement in […]
YOUR ADMINISTRATION WORSE IN NORTHERN HISTORY, TUKUR TO EX GOV. YARI
Tukur Makau,President,Arewa Youths for Peace, has called for the arrest and prosecution of former Zamfara State Governor, Abdul Aziz Yari for allegedly aiding and abetting crimes during his tenure as Governor of Zamfara State. Tukur said If the government of President Buhari could disband the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS,) following […]
EndSARS: Nigerians in France join protest, demand resignation of Buhari,IGP
Nigerians in France on Friday joined the ongoing protest against police brutality and other related offences . The protesters have gone beyond demanding for justice for victims of police offences and total reforms to asking for resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu for […]
EndSARS protest enters tenth day with no end in sight
The nation-wide march against police brutality has entered the tenth day with no sign of an end On Thursday, the Federal Capital Territory FCT commitee on Security banned further protest in the Abuja beginning from Today (Friday), but the protesters who defied the scotching heat and rain, simply declared the […]
House of Reps summons IGP to appear before commitee on Justice,Police and Human Rights
House of Reps has issued a 7 day ultimatum to the Inspector General of Police(,IGP) Mohammed Adamu , to appear before its Joint commitee on Justice, Human Rights and Justice over allegations of police brutality and extra-judicial killings. The Chairman of the committee of the Joint commitee ,Mr Ugonna Ozurigbo, […]