#EndSARsProtest Archives | FAMOUS REPORTERS

Aug

06

2024

PROTESTS: Investigate Reporter’s Death, Prosecute Killers, Court Orders Lagos Govt

LEGAL, NEWS#EndSARsProtest, #Mr.PelumiOnifade

PROTESTS: Investigate Reporter's Death, Prosecute Killers, Court Orders Lagos Govt By our Correspondent A Federal High Court has ordered the Lagos State Government to investigate the death of an online television Reporter’s and ensure an immediate prosecution of his killers. A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the Lagos State Government to ensure an investigation into the death of Mr. Pelumi Onifade, a 20-year reporter with Gboah TV, an online television channel, who was reportedly arrested by officers attached to a Lagos state task force while covering the #EndSARS protests in 2020, and later found dead at a mortuary…

Jul

30

2023

By Famous Reporters

Leaked EndSARS Mass Burial Memo One Of Many Surprises To Come – Adegboruwa *Says denying Lekki Tollgate blood spili is a disservice to lost souls

CRIME, NATIONAL NEWS#Ebun-OluAdegboruwa, #EndExtraJudicialkilling, #Endsars, #EndSARsProtest, #LekkiTollgateMassacre, #LekkiTollgateShooting

Leaked EndSARS Mass Burial Memo One Of Many Surprises To Come – Adegboruwa*Says denying Lekki Tollgate blood spili is a disservice to lost souls Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has expressed rude shock to a leaked Lagos State Government memo on the secret mass burial of 103 victims of the October 2020 EndSARS protest, describing it as one of the many surprises to come. The senior lawyer stated this on Channels Television’s Law Weekly, a pre-recorded programme which airs every Saturday at 03:30pm with focus on the legal profession. It would be recalled that Adegboruwa was a member of…

Jul

23

2023

By Famous Reporters

2Years after tragedy: Lagos Government Awards Over N61Million Contract For Mass Burial Of 103 EndSARS Victims… Says none is from Lekki Tollgate

METRO, NATIONAL NEWS#Endsars, #EndSARsProtest, #Lagos, #LekkiTollgateShooting, #Protest

2Years after tragedy: Lagos Government Awards Over N61Million Contract For Mass Burial Of 103 #EndSARS Victims… Says none is from Lekki Tollgate A letter from the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency has confirmed a move by the state government to carry out a mass burial for 103 victims of #EndSARS close to three years after their deaths. The letter dated July 19, 2023, and titled ‘Letter Of No Objection. Mass Burial For The 103. The Year 2020 EndSARS Victims’ was addressed to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and signed by the Director General of the Lagos State Public Procurement…

Nov

18

2021

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By Famous Reporters

Leaked #EndSARS Panel Report: Make Your Report Public, Ensure Restorative Justice- FENRAD Charges Abia Govt … Says “Justice Should not End on Paper,”

NATIONAL NEWS#EndBadGovernment, #EndExtraJudicial killing, #endMilitaryKilling, #Endpolicebrutality, #Endsars, #EndSARsProtest

Leaked #EndSARS Panel Report: Make Your Report Public, Ensure Restorative Justice- FENRAD Charges Abia Govt ... Says "Justice Should not End on Paper," Following the recently leaked Lagos State EndSARS panel reports otherwise known, as 'Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS-Related Abuses and Other Maters or Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry', Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a pro-democracy, human and environmental rights advocacy group has charged the various Governments to that no stone is left unturned in dispensing justice. This is contained in a statement jointly signed by Comrade Nelson…

Oct

26

2021

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By Famous Reporters

Recurrent Intimidation, Phones’ Search: FENRAD Condemns Invasion of Privacy by Police Unit in Aba

NEWS#Endpolicebrutality, #EndsarsAnniversary, #EndSarsMorial, #EndSARsProtest, FENRAD, Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, intimidation, Nigeria police, Phone's search, victimisation

Recurrent Intimidation, Phones' Search: FENRAD Condemns Invasion of Privacy by Police Unit in Aba Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a pro-democracy and environmental rights advocacy group has condemned vehemently, the alleged cases of phones' and gadgets' search, as carried out by men of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS against Aba residents. The group attributed the nefarious action perpetrated by men of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS against residents of the area to the "illicit activities of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS unit of the same Force", which regrettably resulted in the outbreak of the 2020 nationwide…

Oct

20

2021

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By Famous Reporters

#EndSARSMemorial: Pathetic story of passer-by arrested by Police for holding Nigerian flag

NATIONAL NEWS#BlessingIko, #EndBadGovernment, #endMilitaryKilling, #Endpolicebrutality, #EndsarsAnniversary, #EndSarsMemorial, #EndSARsProtest

A passer-by, Blessing Iko, has narrated her ordeal in the hands of the operatives of the Lagos state police command, at the #EndsarsMemorial venue. Blessing Iko lamented that the Police arrested her and at the same time, confiscated her phone for holding the Nigerian flag. Speaking to journalists while in a police van, Iko said the officers seized her two phones and held her in their van. According to her, the flag was given to her by the bus conductor who asked all passengers to disembark as he approached the Lekki tollgate where the #EndSARSMemorial protest was taking place. Security…

Oct

20

2021

7 Comments

By Famous Reporters

No fewer than 14 dead in bomb explosion, As police fire teargas at Lekki Tollgate protesters

NATIONAL NEWS#EndBadGovernment, #EndExtraJudicial killing, #endMilitaryKilling, #Endpolicebrutality, #Endsars, #EndSARsProtest, #EndSecurityVote

No fewer than 14 dead in bomb explosion, As police fire teargas at Lekki Tollgate protesters Teargas Fired As Police, Security Agents Battle To Control Protesters From Taking Over Lekki Tollgate Palpable tension is brewing at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos State now as police fired tear gas canisters to disperse the large crowd of protesters at the venue. The crowd had become too large to control for the security operatives as hundreds of vehicles were blocking the free flow of traffic along the road. Unlike the situation in the last one hour, when the protesters were only going in…

Oct

20

2021

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By Famous Reporters

Happening! Lekki Tollgate Shooting/ #Endsars Anniversary: Police Arrest, whisk participants (See Photos)

CRIME, NATIONAL NEWS#EndBadGovernment, #EndExtraJudicial killing, #Endpolicebrutality, #Endsars, #EndSARsProtest, #lekki tollgate massacre, #LekkiTollgateShooting

Happening! Lekki Tollgate Shooting Anniversary: Police Arrest, whisk participants (See Photos) A viral video has shown innumerable vehicles of men of the Nigeria Police arresting and whisking away some youths who had arrived at Lekki Tollgate, in Lagos State, to hold a memorial for their fallen heroes during the nationwide #Endsars protest. Security Operatives' vans #Endsars protesters at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos State, on October 20, 2020. In the said video, an unarmed young man in his early twenties, suspected to be part of the protest, dressed in a pair of yellow shirt and a blue jeans, was seen being dragged…

Oct

20

2021

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By Famous Reporters

#ENDSARS PROTESTS 2020- ONE YEAR AFTER: Group Demands Arrests, Prosecution of Trigger-Happy Officers At Lekki

CRIME, NATIONAL NEWS#EndBadGovernment, #EndExtraJudicialkilling, #endMilitaryKilling, #Endpolicebrutality, #Endsars, #EndSARsProtest, 'Action Group On Free Civic Space', lekki tollgate

#ENDSARS PROTESTS 2020- ONE YEAR AFTER: Group Demands Arrests, Prosecution of Trigger-Happy Officers At Lekki Worried by the obvious negligence of the President Mohammadu Buhari's led government of the All Progressives Congress, APC, towards the brutal massacring of unarmed #Endsars protester at Lekki tollgate, on October, 20, 2020, a group known as 'Action Group On Free Civic Space' has called for the immediate arrest and speedy prosecution of the trigger happy Security Operatives. This is even as the 2020 #Endsars protesters observe their one year anniversary today, October 20. In an address, made available to Famousreporters.com, the group condemned in…

Jul

24

2021

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By Famous Reporters

What My Boyfriend’s ghost killed during #Endsars told me, Nigerian girl tells her encounter with ghost

Oddity#EndBadGovernment, #EndExtraJudicialkilling, #Endpolicebrutality, #EndSARsProtest, Nigerian government, Okechukwu Nathaniel

What My Boyfriend's ghost killed during enddars told me, Nigerian girl tells her encounter with ghost A young Nigerian girl, simply identified as Derin has narrated her encounter with the ghost of her boyfriend, Okechukwu Nathaniel who was, a Nigerian man who was killed during the #EndSARS protest against police brutality last year in Lagos. Derin explained how after Oke’s death he visited her to bid her a final goodnight. According to her, few days after her boyfriend died and before he was laid to rest she needed his SuperHI password and mysteriously got it in her dream. She maintained…