Nigerians in diaspora on the platform of the Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria (GCSDN) has launched a project to raise $500,000 to fully support victims of the EndSARS protest who were allegedly attacked by government sponsored thugs and security agencies in October 2020. During a broadcast published on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y2OKOnckaU&t=30s), the Global Coordinator of the Coalition, Frederick ...

A police officer in Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 3. Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Duke University For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to “abolish” a police force had succeeded. After weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality, the government agreed to disband a widely hated police unit. This was in Nigeria, ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state has inaugurated a 32-man judicial panel of inquiry to look into the ongoing ENDSARS protest in the state. Obiano who performed the ceremony yesterday at the executive Chambers of the government house, hailed  the youths for conducting themselves properly in carrying out the ENDSARS protest. He said that inauguration of the ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Nothing confirms the urgent need to save Nigeria now more than the current protests against police brutality across the country. For days now, #EndSARS/#EndSWAT protesters have held the nation hostage. Even in the North, people are no more comfortable. Northern youths started their protests against insecurity in the region last Friday. Tagged #Endinsecuritynow, the protesters have marched through ...

Matthew Chattle/Barcroft Media via Getty Image Sakiru Adebayo, University of the Witwatersrand Two days after Nigeria celebrated its sixtieth year of independence, a video of a young man brazenly killed by a member of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad or SARS caught the attention of netizens. The Twitter user who posted the viral video claimed the man’s body had been ...

Judicial panels of enquiry formed to investigate police brutality in all states, FCT Council directs special fund in all states to compensate victims of brutality Rising from its monthly meeting, the National Economic Council has directed the immediate establishment of State-based Judicial Panels of Inquiry across the country to receive and investigate complaints of Police brutality or related extra-judicial killings ...

One person dies in Oyo Group demands visa ban for Lagos, Ogun, Oyo CPs The call for an end to police brutality and reform of the force gained more support across the country on Tuesday, as more states joined in the #EndSARS protest. The protest, which was largely peaceful, held in many parts of the country with some confrontation with security agencies. ...

…wants compensation for slain members  The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has thrown its weight behind calls for an end to police brutality, while asking for erring officers to be brought to justice as well as compensation to be paid to victims and their families. It lamented that the Force under President Muhammadu Buhari had failed to shed the brutal character ...

•Governor Meets Protesters In Alausa, Announces Plan To Compensate Maimed Victims Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has activated the process of getting justice for the victims of brutality and extra-judicial actions committed by some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) – the dissolved tactical unit in the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos. Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, said the State ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an Urgent Appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to use her “leadership position to apply the Commonwealth Charter to hold Nigerian authorities to account for widespread and persistent attacks on peaceful protesters, reports of human rights violations and abuses, corruption, impunity, as well as disregard for the ...