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Nigeria: UN Rights Experts Call for Independent Inquiry Into Deaths of Protesters
UN News, 3 November 2020
The Nigerian Government must establish a credible, independent inquiry into the recent killing of at least 12 peaceful protestors by soldiers, a group of independent UN human… Read more »
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Nigeria: Attacks On Media Houses Worrisome, Say UN, UK
This Day, 4 November 2020
The United Nations and the British Government have described the increasing attacks on media houses and journalists in Nigeria as disturbing. Read more »
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Nigeria: Lekki Shootings - CCTV Stopped Working At 8pm, Official Tells Judicial Panel
Premium Times, 3 November 2020
The panel said it will decide on when to play the CCTV footage of the shootings in an open court Read more »
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Nigeria: How SARS Officers Attacked, Left Me Paralysed - 34-Year-Old Man Tells Panel
Premium Times, 3 November 2020
The man narrated how he was thrown off a two-storey building by operatives of SARS thus badly damaging his spinal cord. Read more »
UN Call for Independent Inquiry Into Killings of Protesters
The UN experts underscored that systematic police brutality and excessive use of force against peaceful protestors must be independently and impartially investigated as well as perpetrators also be brought to justice. Amnesty International has accused Nigerian authorities of a cover-up in the Lekki Toll Gate deaths, that occurred during the #EndSARS protests on October 20, 2020. At least 12 people protesting against the brutality of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), lost their lives.
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A judicial panel that was established to investigate police brutality and the recent shooting deaths of unarmed protesters by soldiers in Lagos, has convened for the first time, as ... Read more »
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Amnesty International has accused Nigerian authorities of a cover up in the Lekki Toll Gate deaths, that occurred during the #EndSARS protests on October 20, 2020. In a ... Read more »
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Protests, violence, and looting continue all over the country as people target government warehouses holding Covid-19 aid. Governors have slapped round-the-clock curfews ... Read more »
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While the northeast insurrection is obviously the most prominent, the post-colonial Nigerian state is arguably unraveling in all parts of the country: shilla boys, ... Read more »
We have no leaders. The situation in Nigeria with the police brutality is dire. Youths finally speak up and request the change they speak by situating their bodies in public spaces.
