#EndSARS protests: ECOWAS Court finds Nigerian Govt guilty of human rights abuses

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice has found the Nigerian government guilty of human rights abuses in its handling of the #EndSARS protests in October 2020. In a ruling on Wednesday, July 10, the court determined that the Nigerian government’s actions, particularly the excessive use of force at the Lekki Toll […]

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#EndSARS Protests: Waste, Not the Crisis, By Issa Aremu

With as many as 67 officially pronounced dead, looted properties, burnt assets, forced lockdowns, as a veteran activist of sundry campuses’ protests against apartheid, military dictatorship, 1989 SAP riots, June 12 validation, fuel price resistance, for new minimum wages in the past 30 years, I bear witness that the current crisis is the most ‘wasteful’. […]

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Buhari meets Lawan, Gbajabiamila over #EndSARS protests

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, is reportedly meeting with the heads of the Nigerian Senate and the House of Reps over the ongoing protests against the scrapped Special Anti-Robbery Unit of the Nigeria Police Force. National Assembly leaders attending the meeting holding inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja with the President are the President of the Senate, […]

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