•#EndSARS protest 2020 Six years after the #EndSARS protests against police brutality, the mother of slain journalist Pelumi Onifade is still seeking the release of her son’s remains, amid lingering questions over his death. Onifade, a 20-year-old journalist with Gboah TV, went missing in October 2020 while covering the protests in Lagos, repo...
The Workers’ Rights Campaign (WRC) has recalled the 2020 EndSARS Rebellion, describing it as an epochal struggle of working-class and middle-class youths against police brutality, bad governance and the nation’s exploitative system which gave birth to the protest. In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday, the WRC solemnly honoured many young p...
•Taskforce locks up protesters inside Black Maria Thomas Olamide, one of the protesters arrsted at Lekki tollgate in Lagos, yesterday, has raised an alarm over alleged theft. It was earlier reported how some of the protesters who converged on the Lekki tollgate in commemoration of the shooting by soldiers on October 20, 2020, were arrested. [&...
Amnesty International Nigeria says it has continued to receive reports of human rights abuse including unlawful detention, extortion, torture, and sexual violence by the Nigeria Police, four years after the October 2020 #EndSARS protest. The nationwide #EndSARS protests were held between October 1 and 20, 2020 to demand an end to police brutal...
#EndBadGovernance Movement, a coalition of civil society groups and activists, has declared tomorrow, Sunday, October 20, 2024 as a day to honour the martyrs of the collective struggle for liberty to liberate Nigeria. To this end, the Lagos chapter of the group, in a statement, has announced some activities that will mark the day to […]
•#EndSARS protesters A Lagos State Magistrate Court in Ogba has discharged six men who were arrested during the 2000 #EndSARS protests and have spent almost four years in prison. The defendants, identified as Daniel Joyinbo, Adigun Sodiq, Kehinde Shola, Salaudeen Kamilu, Sodiq Usseni, and Azeez Isiaka, were set free by Magistrate Bolanle Osuns...
The looming protest, if it goes ahead between Thursday, August 1 and Saturday, August 10, will be the third major nationwide protest in more than one decade. There were 2012 and 2020 protests, and now 2024 uncertain protest, reports Sunday Vanguard. The 2012 protest, tagged Occupy Nigeria, began on Monday, January 2 of that year […]
•Abimbola Salu-Hundeyin The Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Abimbola Salu-Hundeyin, has urged residents to avoid violent protests that could lead to the destruction of public property, as seen during the 2020 #EndSARS protests. The SSG gave this advice on Tuesday while speaking to journalists after a routine security meeting with the ...
Amnesty International yesterday hailed the ruling of the ECOWAS Court, which ordered the federal government to conduct a fresh investigation into rights violations that occurred during the October 2020 #EndSARS protests across Nigeria. The Director Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, in a statement reiterated the organisation’s commitme...
The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has ruled that the Federal Republic of Nigeria violated the human rights of Obianuju Udeh and two others. The court found Nigeria in breach of Articles 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, and 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, specifically on the right to life, security […]
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