Youths in Lagos are protesting the death of a bricklayer who was allegedly hit by a vehicle belonging to the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, also known as the Lagos State Taskforce, in Oshodi.
According to an eyewitness, the task force vehicle, knocked the young man down while chasing a bus driver around 5:30 am on Tuesday.
The victim who was on his way to work died on the spot. Following his death, some youth took to the street to protest against the unending killings by security officials. x
But the task force said it was not responsible for the death of the man. It blamed the death on an errant bus driver.
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One person has been reported killed during a clash between motorcyclists and policemen attached to the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit in the Agric area of Ikorodu Road on Friday.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the clash started with a shouting match between the policemen and the motorcyclists and later degenerated into the use of different weapons, including bottles, cutlasses and guns.
Eyewitnesses, who spoke to
PUNCH Metro, said there were continuous shootings, which sent shivers down the spines of residents and business owners operating along the Garage, Benson and Agric axis in Ikorodu.
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The PUNCH, has won the Best Investigative Media Organisation Award at the 15th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting.
The award, which was held at the NECA House, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday, was themed, ‘Masked but not silenced.’
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A senior correspondent of
The PUNCH, Samson Folarin, was also adjudged winner of the print category of the award, clinching the prize for the second year in a roll.
Folarin’s series on the certificate scandal at the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, which ran for over seven months, was voted winner of the category.