•Nentawe Yilwatda and Uba Sani Federal government, at the weekend, expressed its resolve to collaborate with the Kaduna State Government on the provision of skill acquisition and reintegration programme for the pardoned minors of #EndBadGovernance protest. Recall that the released minors and youths of the #EndBadGovernance were handed over to ...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Bola Tinubu to direct the Police to stop harassing and threatening Amnesty International, because they (Amnesty International) were defending Nigerians’ rights. The call is coming against the backdrop of the Police’s demand for Amnesty International to apologise o...
•#EndBadGovernance protesters The Nigeria Police Force said it has written and demanded an immediate retraction and public apology regarding a publication titled “Bloody August: Nigeria Government’s Violent Crackdown on Bad Governance Protests” written to Amnesty International. Today’s statement by the Force’s Public Relations Officer, A...
•#EndBadGovernance protesters Former Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has called on the federal government to go back to the drawing board in governing the masses. Shekarau, who was a guest on Channels Television last night, said the recent #EndBadGovernance protest was a clear message to President Bola Tinubu’s administration. “The last...
The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has ordered an investigation into allegation of the Nigerian Police Force’s culpability in the deaths and arrests of protesters during the August #EndBadGovernance nationwide protest. Amnesty had in a briefing published a few days ago, accused NPF of “using excessive force against protesters du...
In an unprecedented move, the Department of State Services, DSS, has written one August #Endbadgovernance protester, Khalid Aminu, demanding a retraction of his recent claim that he was brutalised, while in the custody of the security agency. Aminu, an engineer by profession, was among several persons arrested in Kano and other parts of the No...
•The kid-protesters Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, today handed over the 76 minors arrested over the August #EndBadGovernance protests to their respective parents. The governor, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Shehu Sagagi, handed over the children to their parents at the Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital where they were accomm...
•Some of the demonstrators carrying Russian flags Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday faulted the recent arraignment of minors involved in the recent #EndBadGovernance protests for treason. In August, the government arrested some children who were seen hoisting Russian flags in some northern states and charged before the Federal High C...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun today broke the silence over alleged arrest of minors during last August #EndBadGovernance protests. Egbetokun emphasised that those detained were criminal elements engaged in arson, destruction of property as well as looting of shops and public facilities, adding that they were not peacef...
The recent release of protesters detained in connection with the August 1 to 10 #EndBadGovernance protests in some parts of the country has raised fresh issues concerning the propriety of the arrests, detention, trial and treatment of suspects while in custody as well as the sudden interests shown by state governments in the case. It […...