#EndSARS Promoters Must Face The Law – Presidency
Garba Shehu, the presidential spokesman, says those who promoted the #EndSARS protest and allowed it degenerate into chaos must be made to face the law. Garba Shehu said this when he featured on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Sunday. ABN TV had reported how a federal high court in Abuja granted the Central Bank of Nigeria’s request to freeze the...
Over 75,000 Sign Petition To Arraign Buhari After #ENDSARS Panel Report
A petition by Reno Omokri, a former Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, on the change.org platform has received 76,420 signatures as of 12.39 pm on Friday. The petition, which was filed on Wednesday, was directed at the International Criminal Court and comes after the Lagos #EndSARS panel indicted the Buhari administration in its report. At over 75,471 signatures, the petition...
#EndSARS: Minimum Requirement Into Nigerian Police Should Be B.Sc, HND, Equivalent — Security Expert
A renowned security expert and Interpol Systems Consultant, Sir Chikwe Udensi has advocated and increase in minimum education requirement into Nigerian Police Force. This is even as he lamented the dwindling quality of education in the country, describing the tertiary institutions as glorified secondary schools. In a chat with ABN TV at the weekend, Sir Udensi said the current system where...
#EndSARS: No Jailbreak In Ikoyi, Fire Contained – Officials
The fire that broke out in a part of the Ikoyi Correctional Centre has been controlled, the service has said. It also dismissed fears there was a jailbreak in the facility, insisting that the fire only affected a part of the centre and did not involve inmates. Spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Lagos, Rotimi Oladokun said there was...
#ENDSARS: We Await Reports From State Govts – Buhari Tells Blinken
President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will allow the system to exhaust itself, and will, therefore, wait for pronouncements from state governments that set up panels to probe police brutality in the country. The president spoke Thursday at State House, Abuja, while receiving in audience Mr Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State. “So many state governments are involved, and...
#ENDSARS Protesters Spread Inciting Content On Social Media – NSA
The National Security Adviser, NSA, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.), has said the social media was used to disseminate subversive content to incite violence during the #EndSARS protests which rocked the country recently. Monguno, who spoke at the multi-stakeholders workshop for the validation of the draft national cybersecurity policy and strategy 2020, organized by his office in Abuja on Wednesday,...
#EndSARS Agitation Now Out Of Hand In Abia, FENRAD Laments
Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy & Development (FENRAD) A Civil society Advocacy & Human Rights Organization has said the #EndSARS protest in Abia state has gone out of hand. The group expressed worry over the violence, looting, and destruction of public property that has characterised the agitation in the state. While insisting that violence cannot achieve the desired result, FENRAD in...
BREAKING: “CNN Report On #EndSARS One-Dimensional” – Lai Mohammed Insists Military Fired Blank Bullets Into The Air
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Thursday reacted to an investigative report on the October 20 Lekki shootings published by US-based media giant, CNN. Mohammed described the report as one-dimensional and lacking in balance. He also validated a report done by the BBC, which he claimed was based more on facts. The Minister added that CNN should be sanctioned...
We’ll Ensure Timely Release Of Protesters – Falz
Nigerian singer, Folarin Falana, aka Falz, has said that he and his team will ensure the timely release of everyone arrested during the End SARS memorial protest at Lekki tollgate. Falz and the rest of the protesters chose to remain in their cars as they drove around the tollgate. Unfortunately, some lone protesters, a cab driver, and a journalist were arrested...
#LekkiShooting: Army Lied Against Sanwo-Olu – Nnamdi Kanu
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday, faulted claims by the Army that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State invited them to Lekki toll gate, amid the End SARS protest. Kanu claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the soldiers to kill the protesters, not Sanwo-Olu. Recall that gunmen in military uniform had last week Tuesday stormed...
