EndSARS: Gen. Buratai Attacks CNN

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has said the Nigerian Army is a professional Army who will never operate outside the rules of engagement. This is against the backdrop of questions being asked as to the propriety of the Nigerian Army’s involvement in the shooting of Lekki EndSARS protesters and a recent report by CNN saying that live bullets were used. Speaking on the EndSARS issue when he received...

Nigerian Embassy In Germany Suspends Staff For Alleged Sexual Assault

A senior security staff of the Nigeria embassy in Germany who allegedly demanded sex from a lady before renewing her passport in a viral video has been suspended. The viral video captured a shocked “Mr Martins” pants down in a hotel room after he had allegedly solicited sex from an anonymous woman. “Your cup is full. Your time is up,” a voice behind the camera said to him. The voice accused the now suspended staff...

El-Zakzaky’s Trial Resumes In Kaduna State

On Wednesday, the trial of sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and his wife, Zeenat reopened at the Kaduna state high court. El-Zakzaky and his wife are being prosecuted by the Kaduna State government on an eight-count charge bordering on alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, and disruption of the public peace among other charges. Last month, the hearing was adjourned to November 17 and 18 after the couple pleaded not...

Journalists Charge To Avoid Sensational Reporting, As Commission Commence Sitting

The Chairman, Judicial Commission of inquiry into Police brutality in Adamawa, retired Justice Adamu Hobon has urged Journalists to avoid sensational reporting, as the commission commence public sitting Tuesday at the board room Universal Basic Education Board Yola. Hobon who made the plea while addressing members of the commission and journalists to formally start receiving complaints from the general public since they were sworn-in on 22nd October, 2020 and has six months to complete the assignment....

Adamawa State Government To Construct, Renovate Courts Across The State

To ensure quick dispensation of justice, enhance service delivery, and to provide a conducive working environment for judicial staff, the Adamawa state government will soon commence the reconstruction and renovation of dilapidated courts across the state. Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri disclosed this while declaring open a two-day training for state counsels and investigators in various Government agencies in Adamawa State. Represented by the Chief of Staff Government House Yola, Prof. Maxwell Gidado, Fintiri said the...

Police Asks Magistrate to Extend #EndSARS Protester’s Detention Without His Lawyer’s Consent

The Nigerian police attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) approached the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos on Monday and filed an application seeking to remand an #EndSARS protesters, Eromosele Adene, for an extra 30 days. Eromosele was arrested last week in Ikeja and taken to the police command headquarters. From there, he was transferred to the Area F Command before he was later detained at the SCID Panti. He was then flown to...

Sam Adeyemi, Tuface, Davido, Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, 45 Others Sued Over #EndSARS Protests

A Nigerian, Kenechukwu Okeke, has filed a criminal complaint before a Chief Magistrate’s court in Abuja against 50 Nigerians for their alleged roles in the #EndSARS protests that took place in Nigeria last month. Okeke alleged that during the riot that hijacked the protests, his properties were destroyed and the defendants who promoted the #EndSARS protests must be brought to justice. The list of the defendants included Musician Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy, David Adeleke...

So Bad, Defiled Corpse of Six-Year-Old Found in Kaduna Cemetery

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz,  Regional Correspondent The corpse of a six-year-old, Aisha Ya,u, suspected to have been defiled before being killed, has been recovered from a cemetery in Kurmin Mashi area of Kaduna. Reports say that the corpse was discovered by a farmer, returning from his farm, and who alerted passers-by. Eye witness accounts as at the time of filing this report indicated that the girl returned from Islamiyya school on Sunday at around 11 am,...

Police Brutality: Adamawa Judicial Panel of Enquiry Set to Commence Sitting Nov 17

By Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz, Regional Correspondent The Judicial Panel of Enquiry set up by the Adamawa State Government to investigate all issues of alleged police brutality, and human Rights abuses or related Extra-Judicial Killings in the State is set to commence sitting on Tuesday 17 November 2020. Suleiman Usman, Permanent Secretary, Security, government house, in a statement issued to newsmen  urged the general public to forward their complaints, petitions and memoranda to the panel. ”...

Police Panel Says Many Policemen in Lagos are Still Missing, Unaccounted For

Following the pandemonium that followed the killings of unarmed protesters in Lagos by the Nigerian Army, the Inspector-General of Police Committee on EndSARS Protest Damage Assessment has said that many officers of the force are still unaccounted for and missing. The committee, which was in Lagos on Saturday to assess the extent of damage to police assets, said that the destruction level suffered by the police would affect the quality of policing and security in...

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