#EndSARS Panel’s Report On Lekki Shooting Unreliable — Lagos Attorney General

LAGOS — Moyosore Onigbanjo, attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Lagos has said the report presented by the judicial panel is filled with many contradictions. According to him, these contradictions make the report on police brutality findings unreliable. On November 15, the panel had submitted two reports. One on cases of police brutality and another on the Lekki shooting incident. The panel had listed nine fatalities from the shooting at the Lekki tollgate on October...

Orji Kalu Visits Nnamdi Kanu In DSS Custody, Promises To Keep Counseling Him

ABUJA  — The Chief Whip of the Nigeria Senate and former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has visited the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of the Department of State Services on Monday afternoon. Kalu, in a statement personally signed by him and made available to our correspondent in Abuja, said the IPOB leader was in good health and under proper care. The former...

Lai Mohammed Kicks Against Political Solution for IPOB, ESN, Citing Attacks on Government Agencies

ABUJA — The Federal Government has said the attacks on government agencies and agents by the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Eastern Security Network oppose the call for a political solution to their issue. IPOB and ESN are separatist groups agitating for the restoration of the defunct Republic of Biafra. Their leader, Nnamdi Kanu is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services after he was arrested in Kenya and brought to...

Lawmakers Rejects Bill Seeking to Allow Citizens Sue Government Over Lack of Welfare

ABUJA — The Nigerian House of Representatives has rejected a bill that allows citizens to sue the government for not providing basic welfare. The bill suffered a setback at the house of representatives on Wednesday. Sponsored by Sergius Ogun, a lawmaker from Edo, the legislation seeks to amend section 6 of the Constitution to allow the judiciary to entertain cases on the provision of basic welfare as contained in chapter 2. Speaking on the bill,...

#EndSARS: Panel Report Riddled With Discrepancies – Lai Mohammed

ABUJA  — Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture has described the report by the Lagos judicial panel as a reappraisal of the unverified fake news According to him, the report submitted by the panel set up to probe police brutality and the shooting at the Lekki tollgate is riddled with discrepancies. The report which said the incident at Lekki Toll Gate was a “killing of unarmed protesters by soldiers on October 20, 2020 and...

ENDSARS: Panel Submit Report In Three Volumes

YOLA — The Judicial Panel of Inquiry into alleged brutality of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS in Adamawa State Monday submitted its report to government in three volumes consisting of recommendations, submissions and exhibits. The committee was inaugurated in October pursuant to the directives of the National Economic Council following the nationwide protests last year against the disbanded security squad. Presenting the report, Chairman of the 13-member Judicial Panel of Enquiry, Retired Justice Adamu...

Forceful Ejection: Over 400 Residents Sue Minister Of Federal Capital Territory

ABUJA — Over 400 residents of Abuja have sued the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Inspector-General of Police concerning the forcible ejection from their shops. Chukwuma-Umachukwu Ume, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) writing on behalf of the 439 complainants, said most of his clients are the breadwinners of their families. In an impassioned letter to the FCT minister, Muhammad Bello, the distraught traders who are mostly low-income earners, urge the minister...

Buhari Speaks on EndSARS Report, Says His Government Will Allow the System to Work

ABUJA  — Following the recent release of the Lagos State EndSARS Judicial Panel Reports, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told the visiting United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, that his government will allow the system to exhaust itself, and will, therefore, wait for pronouncements from state governments which set up panels to probe police brutality in the country. Buhari said this on Thursday at State House, Abuja, while receiving in audience...

#EndSARS:Panel Orders Police to Produce rtd SP Monday Christopher

ABUJA — the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations on Friday, ordered that the police produce rtd SP Monday Christopher to appear before it to answer to the alleged disappearance of Lukman Suleiman. The panel is investigating by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other Units of the Nigeria Police Force. The 11-member panel which is chaired by a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Suleiman Galadima, gave this order at the hearing...

Over 8,000 Appeals Waiting To Be Heard At The Supreme Court

ABUJA — Senior lawyers in the country have expressed concern at the number of appeals pending at the Supreme Court with over 8,000 appeals waiting to be heard. Apart from political cases that need urgent attention, any appeal to the court now is given a 2028 date for hearing, adding that only time-bound appeals that cannot wait will be given urgent attention at the court. Some senior lawyers who spoke on the issue said the...

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