Category: General News
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the deployment of ‘legitimate force’ to protect lives and property of citizens including police officers and personnel of other law enforcement agencies and their families from violent persons or groups operating under any guise. Adamu spoke against the backdrop of the #EndSARS protests which rocked the […]
The police had on Friday arraigned the protesters over criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, inciting public disturbance and public nuisance. The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges. The prosecuting counsel, John Ijagbemi, applied for the remand of the defendants at the correctional center while stating that they had the tendency to commit the same offence […]
The Osun State Police Command has arrested two administrators of End SARS WhatsApp group in the state. According to sources, DAILY POST learnt that the police are still hunting for some individuals in the End SARS WhatsApp group. Recall that Nigeria youths last four weeks protested against police brutality, extra-judicial and bad governance in Nigeria. […]
The freezing of bank accounts owned by #EndSARS protesters and promoters is a gross violation of rights and an attack on Nigeria’s democracy, legal experts and activists say. This is in reaction to the exparte order obtained by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to freeze the accounts of 20 individuals and an organisation linked […]
Lemo, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said the decision was taken to prevent illicit flow of fund through the payment channel. “I was the one that instructed them to shut down their system yesterday when the bad guys were moving money through them,” Lemo explained. Lemo’s explanation is coming […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said 12 journalists and five media outlets were attacked during the EndSARS protests that erupted across the nation and the attendant violence. It demanded a transparent and swift investigation into recent attacks on journalists and media outlets during the protests. In the report published on Wednesday, the CPJ said […]
Nigerian authorities have started collating a no-fly list of ‘hundreds of Nigerians’ they suspected of energising the #EndSARS movement that loomed across the country last month, officials told Peoples Gazette on Monday, in a move that could drive a wedge of mutual suspicions in ongoing negotiations between the government and the protesters. Three officials with distinct but […]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined Channels Television, AIT and Arise TV N3 million each over their “unprofessional coverage” of the EndSARS protests and the crisis that followed it. Acting Director-General of NBC Prof Armstrong Idachaba announced the sanction at a press conference in Abuja. He said that if the commission escalates the violations […]
The protesters were rallying in the town to join the demand for the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the police when the incident happened. SaharaReporters gathered that the soldiers were led by one Colonel Abdulsamad Tanko, who ordered his men to shoot at the unarmed protesters. “The incident happened less than two […]
According to the BBC, the president announced the death toll during a virtual meeting with former leaders and security chiefs on Friday. Buhari was quoted as saying 51 civilians, 11 police officers, and seven soldiers had been killed in the unrest. A statement released by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, at the end of the meeting […]