EXCLUSIVE: #EndSARS: Despite 2,600 petitions, govt’s legal aid scheme represents only five petitioners
PREMIUM TIMES confirms that the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON) is offering legal services only in Lagos and Oyo. 3 min read
As protests against police brutality raged across Nigeria last October, one of the pacifying concessions reached by the state and federal governments was the setting up of judicial panels of inquiry.
The National Executive Council (NEC) headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo recommended that the panels be established in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with the mandate to look into cases of alleged violations of human rights by the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the police.
Published 27 May 2021
A member of the Lagos State Panel on SARS Related Abuses, Ebun Adegboruwa, has clarified that the panel is yet to make any finding on the Lekki tollgate incident of October 20, 2020, where #EndSARS protesters were shot and reportedly killed.
He said this while reacting to a
Facebook post by Joe Igbokwe, the Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, claiming that the panel made a finding that nobody died from the Lekki Toll Gate incident.
According to Adegboruwa, if people were killed at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, the panel will make it known regardless of the consequence.
In a statement titled, ‘Lagos Judicial Panel on SARS Related Abuses has not made any finding on Lekki tollgate incidence’, the senior advocate described
Press zooms in on repatriation of Nigerian refugees from Cameroon, others Nigeria-Press-Review February 12, 2021 to 09:58 436 APA – Lagos (Nigeria) The report that the repatriation of Nigerian refugees from Cameroon has been fixed for February 27 and March 7, 2021 and Prof. Soyinka’s statement that “Cattle imperialism under any guise is an obscenity to humanity” are some of the leading stories in the Nigerian newspapers on Friday.
ThisDay reports that the repatriation of Nigerian refugees from Cameroon has been fixed for February 27 and March 7, 2021.
Most of the 46,000 Nigerian refugees fled troubled Borno State to neighbouring Cameroonian towns, mostly Minawao, at the peak of the Boko Haram crisis.The decision on the scheduled repatriation dates was taken after a tripartite commission meeting involved representatives of the federal governm
A group under the aegis of Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has condemned the decision of the Lagos State Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS abuses to return possession of the Lekki Tollgate to the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) and has threatened to hold a fresh protest at the gate to begin by 7.am on Saturday, […]