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...
•Nigerian Police Force Human rights body Amnesty International has accused police authorities in Nigeria of using “excessive force” against demonstrators during the #EndBadGovernance protests. The protests took place between August 1-10 across the country owing to the harsh economic conditions in Nigeria, reports Channels TV. Months after the ...
•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...
•NAPPS executives The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) says it is willing to offer scholarships to the released 32 minors throughout their secondary school. The children were among the 76 defendants charged with treasonable felony before a Federal High Court in Abuja after protests against hardship, which lasted f...
•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...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has described the fainting of some minor suspects arraigned at the Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday for their participation in the August 2024 End Bad Governance protest, as “deliberate and scripted”. The police’s reaction comes after some suspects brought in for arraignment fainted be...
•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 minors Justice Obiora Egwuatu has granted bail to about 67 malnourished minors to the tune of N10 million each out of the 76 that were arraigned for participating in the August 2024 End Bad Governance protests. Those granted bail, who are below 15 years, are expected to present one surety who must be a […]
•NLC President Joe Ajaero and IGP Kayode Egbetokun President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, yesterday accused the federal government of planting a British national at the headquarters of the labour movement in Abuja, popularly known as Labour House. The labour leader also said he would have still been in jail by now [&he...
•Deji Adeyanju As 10 #EndBadGovernance protesters were granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja, one of their lawyers, Mr. Deji Adeyanju, weekend, raised the alarm over a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Baze University, Dr. Abubakar Alkali, has allegedly been in custody of the De...
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