ENDSARS UPDATE: Panel Ends Sitting Award N410 million To 71 Petitioners

Law & JusticeENDSARS UPDATE: Panel Ends Sitting Award N410 million To 71 Petitioners

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 19, 2021

LAGOS — The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)-related abuses and the October 20 Lekki Tollgate shootings has ended its assignment. The Panel of Enquiry was set up by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu last year to adjudicate cases of police brutality in the state. Justice Doris Okuwobi, who presided over the nine-man panel, ended the sitting with compensations for victims and recommendations to the government. She said...

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NAF Denies Paying Bandits, Debunk Wall Street Journal Report

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsNAF Denies Paying Bandits, Debunk Wall Street Journal Report

Beloved John (Staff Writer)October 18, 2021

ABUJA — The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has denied paying bandits a sum of N20 million in exchange for an anti-aircraft gun earlier seized from troops. NAF’s statement is a reaction to a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which accused the force of brokering the deal to secure a 12.7 calibre anti-aircraft gun. In the report published on Sunday, WSJ reported that NAF brokered the deal just as President Muhammadu Buhari was planning...

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SERAP Sues FG Over N4.8bn Budget to Monitor WhatsApp

Law & JusticeSERAP Sues FG Over N4.8bn Budget to Monitor WhatsApp

Beloved John (Staff Writer)October 18, 2021

ABUJA — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration over the scheme to keep tabs on the phone calls, WhatsApp, and text messages of Nigerians. The NGO filed the suit on Friday before a federal high court in Abuja. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1240/2021, SERAP prayed that the court to declare the plan to monitor WhatsApp unconstitutional. Of the N982 billion approved in 2021 supplementary budget,...

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UK Government Warns Its Citizens Against Travelling To Twelve States In Nigeria

Crime & SecurityForeign PolicyUK Government Warns Its Citizens Against Travelling To Twelve States In Nigeria

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 18, 2021

The United Kingdom (UK) has warned its citizens against travelling to twelve states in Nigeria due to the high threat of kidnapping for ideological, financial, or political gain. The states are Borno, Yobe, Bayelsa, Bauchi, Gombe, Kaduna, Katsina, Delta, Rivers, Cross River, Zamfara, and Adamawa states. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) published in its travel advisory, warning its citizens to stay away from these twelve states. The FCDO also advised its citizens...

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Nigerian Air Force Deploys 171 Special Forces Across Nigeria To Combat Insecurity

MilitaryNational SecurityNigerian Air Force Deploys 171 Special Forces Across Nigeria To Combat Insecurity

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 18, 2021

BAUCHI —The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has trained 171 special forces operatives to be deployed in troubled areas across the country to help to combat insecurity, including insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, and other crimes. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao, revealed this at the graduation ceremony of 171 Special Forces Course 9/2021 held at the NAF Special Operations Command, Bauchi. He stated that his vision is to enhance and sustain critical airpower capabilities...

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Osinbajo Committee Recommends Drug, Psychiatric Test for Security Operatives, Compensation for EndSARS Victims, Others

Human Rights & FreedomNational SecurityOsinbajo Committee Recommends Drug, Psychiatric Test for Security Operatives, Compensation for EndSARS Victims, Others

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)October 16, 2021

ABUJA — The National Economic Council presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday called on the leadership of the security agencies to ensure that persons recruited into arms-bearing agencies undergo psychiatric evaluations and drug tests before and after enlistment. NEC said the evaluations would ensure that the personnel were psychologically fit to carry weapons and identify behavioural tendencies that might require psycho-social interventions. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media...

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Anambra 2021: Supreme Court Affirms Soludo As APGA Governorship Candidate

Anambra ElectionsLaw & JusticeAnambra 2021: Supreme Court Affirms Soludo As APGA Governorship Candidate

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)October 14, 2021

ABUJA — There was jubilation on Thursday when the Supreme Court in Abuja cleared a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo as the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance in the Anambra State governorship election scheduled for November 6. The apex court also returned Chief Victor Oye as the National Chairman of APGA. The apex court in a judgment of a five-man panel of justices dismissed the...

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Anambra Assembly Passes Anti-Grazing Bill into Law, As Governor Obiano is Set to Present 2022 Budget

BusinessLaw & JusticeAnambra Assembly Passes Anti-Grazing Bill into Law, As Governor Obiano is Set to Present 2022 Budget

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)October 12, 2021

AWKA — Anambra State House of Assembly has passed the anti-grazing bill into law after the bill was read for the third time and overwhelmingly supported by members during the plenary session today. A bill for a law to prohibit and abolish open and nomadic grazing was submitted to the House a few weeks ago and has been painstakingly considered by the House before it was passed at about 3.55 pm, Nigerian time on Tuesday,...

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Suspected Police Operatives Whisk Enugu Suspended Traditional Ruler Out At Night

Law & JusticePeoplePoliceSuspected Police Operatives Whisk Enugu Suspended Traditional Ruler Out At Night

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)October 11, 2021

ENUGU — Mrs. Martina Okwor has called on the Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to as a matter of urgency intervene and save the life of her husband, Chief Christopher Okwor who was whisked out of their residence on Thursday night by suspected Police operatives. “I call for quick intervention of the Enugu state Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State as both the offence and whereabouts’ of my husband are not yet known”, Martina Okwor...

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No Preferential Treatment for Bandits, Secessionist – Lai Mohammed

National SecurityNigeriaNo Preferential Treatment for Bandits, Secessionist – Lai Mohammed

Beloved John (Staff Writer)October 10, 2021

The minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, has said preferential treatment won’t be given to either bandits, insurgents or secessionists. The minister said to the New Agency of Nigeria that the allegation that the FG is handling bandits lightly and secessionist brutally is a misconception and fake news rolled into one. He noted that the federal government does not make a distinction between terrorists and bandits. “We noticed that of recent, there is this...

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