A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out the suit against 76 persons charged over the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest. The trial judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, struck out the suit following an application by the counsel to the Attorney General of the Federation, M. D Abubakar, to take over and discontinue the suit. … developing ...
•Femi Falana, SAN Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has urged the Tinubu-led federal government to discontinue the charge against 101 #EndBadGovernance protesters. His demand comes after President Tinubu yesterday directed the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to release minors arrested and f...
•Arraigned children Following the outrage that trailed the arrest and arraignment of minors over the #EndBadGovernance protests held in several parts of the country in August, President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate release of all the detainees. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this to State ...
•Protesters Scores of Nigerians gathered in Abuja today, launching a large-scale protest over escalating fuel costs, chronic fuel shortages, and mounting economic hardship. Led by Abdullahi Bilal of the (Two Million Man March Against Oil Scam Cabal) and Barrister Napoleon Otache and Olayemi Isaac from Citizens and Economic Freedom Rights Activ...
•Incarcerated children protesters Abuja-based Human Rights Radio has gone off air to protest the arrest of minors during the #EndBadGovernance protest. Ahmed Isah, owner of the station, announced this while featuring on the Berekete family, a breakfast programme. Isah, who used to anchor the radio programme every week day, was not in the studi...
•Arraigned underaged protesters The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has commenced moves to drop the charges brought against the 32 minors arraigned before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Hours after the arraignment, the AGF disclosed in a statement late Friday night h...
•Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has strongly condemned the long detention of minors involved in the recent #EndBadGovernance protests by the police authorities. The lawmaker representing Kogi Central, in a statement issued in Lokoja today by Arogbonlo Israel, her Chief Press Secretary, described the police action as “inhu...
•Arraigned malnourished teenagers in court yesterday There are concerns that the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) custodial centre in Kuje, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) does not have the borstal facility to accommodate the underage hunger protest defendants as ordered by the court. Following the bail granted to the 76 defendants yesterd...
•Arraigned malnourished children protesters in court yesterday The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has taken over the case of the #EndBadGovernance protesters arraigned in the Federal High Court Abuja yesterday. The protesters, 75 in number between the ages of 12 and 15, were charged with 10 counts o...
•The arraigned malnourished children Human Rights Group, Amnesty International, has asked the federal government to release the minors who were arrested over the #EndBadGovernance protest in August. Recall that protesters trooped out to the streets across Nigeria between August 1 and August 10, 2024, over the nationwide hardship, reports Daily...
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