The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has thrown its weight behind calls for an end to police brutality, while asking for erring officers to be brought to justice as well as compensation to be paid to victims and their families. It lamented that the Force under President Muhammadu Buhari had failed to shed the brutal character it exhibited under the repressive regime of the Late General Sani Abacha, and revealed plans to demand compensation after compiling the “victims list” of OPC members killed and maimed by police and other security agents in the last 26 years. Rising from an emergency meeting…
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Funke Busari The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the elevation of Justice Helen M. Ogunwumiju and seven other justices to the apex court. With the appointments, the Supreme Court now have 20 Justices, the first time it will have such number of Justices, the full complement of the court being 21. While Ogunwumiju was nominated as a Justice of the Supreme Court from the South West geopolitical zone, others who were confirmed alongside were Hon. Justice Lawal Garba (North West); Hon. Justice Addu Aboki (North West); Hon. Justice I. M. M. Saulawa (North West) and Hon. Justice Adamu Jauro (North East).…
The Federal Government is already taking steps to placate the youths over the ongoing #ENDSARS protest. Part of the measures is the decision to release all the protesters arrested over the protest as well as embarking on the total reform of the Police. Following the Presidential directive, a meeting was organized by the Office of the Inspector General of Police and National Human Rights Commission. It was a multi-stakeholders’ forum attended by leaders and representatives of civil society organisations in Nigeria, activists from the entertainment industry and the ENDSARS movement and development partners. The Ministry of Police Affairs and Police Service…
A survivor of rape attack who is an undergraduate of Imo State University has narrated how she was forced to suck her attacker’s penis and swallow the sperm. The suspected rapist who has since been charged to court is a commercial motorcyclist, known as Okada. The incident happened on October 1 when she contracted her to take her to a destination she was not familiar with. She became apprehensive when the journey seems to be taking more hours than expected. “On getting to Akwakuma Junction, I called a bike man (Okada rider) and showed him the address. “He told me…
For some months now, there has been a growing agitation for the restructuring of the entity called Nigeria. In times past, there has been lots of clamour from Nigerians, for the All Progressive Congress (APC) led government, to fulfil its promise of restructuring, to the nation. By way of reminder, the APC had covenanted in its Manifesto, before the 2015 general elections, to “initiate ACTION to amend our Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties and responsibilities to states and local governments in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit.” You would well agree with me that…
A security expert, Dr. Ona Ekhomu has advised Nigerians to brace for an inevitable upsurge in violent crimes such as armed robbery, kidnapping and armed banditry as a result of the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) by the Federal Government. According to Dr. Ekhomu, “Violent criminals are aware that SARS has been scrapped. Since there was no orderly transition from one crime combating agency to another, the terrorists and criminals will exploit the confusion during the interregnum to unleash mayhem on Nigerians.” He said that given the probability of spike in violent crimes, the police agency must create…
The killing of Isiaka Jimoh in Ogbomosho by police during #EndSARS protest in Ogbomosho on Saturday has sparked a serious riot in the ancient town as angry youths stormed the road burning tyres to express their grievances. Residents of Isale Ora and Owode axis are living in fear as angry youths in their hundreds are raging and threatening showdown. It was also gathered that the police also fired live teargas and shot sporadically in the morning. Already seven people have sustained various degrees of injuries and they are receiving treatment at both BOWEN Teaching Hospital and Ladoke Akintola Teaching Hospital in Ogbomosho.
In the finest spirit of democratic, citizen-centred and community policing, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, on Sunday, 11th October, 2020, dissolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, across the 36 State Police Commands and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, where they hitherto existed. The IGP, while noting that the dissolution of SARS is in response to the yearnings of the Nigerian people, observes that by this dissolution, all officers and men of the now defunct Special Anti-robbery Squad are being redeployed with immediate effect. The IGP notes that the Force is not oblivious of the ever present need to…
Finally the inspector Inspector of Police has announced the disbandment of Special Anti-Robbery Squad Unit. This is coming after several protests across the country where protesters are demanding the dissolution of the unit following the execcess of its personnel. At an emergency press briefing in Abuja, the Inspector General of Police, announced the dissolution. He said the Operatives would be deployed to other unit.
One of EndSARS protesters was on Saturday killed and another one injured by police in Ogbomoso. The protesters who were majorly students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso and some indigenes were said to have stormed the area command office of Nigeria Police Force Owode Ogbomoso to register their grieviances. It was gathered that the rally took off around Ladoke Akintola university school area in Ogbomoso from where they moved to some notable locations in the state including the Soun of Ogbomoso’s palace. At Owode Police station, the protesters were said to have stormed the entrance with the intention…