Tag: #EndSARS Protests

#EndSARS: Act now before it is too late – Obasanjo warns President Buhari

Aminu Imam

Says deployment of soldiers against protesters wrong Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the deployment of soldiers to quell protests at the Lekki toll-gate in Lagos. Obasanjo, in a statement titled: “Statement on violence against protesters in Nigeria: An appeal for calm”, lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t exhaust all avenues before deploying soldiers. The former President called on Buhari to “restrain the military and other security agencies from using brute force as a way of ending the crisis.” He said history had shown that killing protesters only worsens the…

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#EndSARS protest: Many feared killed, as hoodlums burn, loot in Lagos, FCT, Kano Plateau, others

Aminu Imam

24-hr curfew imposed in several states  .SERAP condemns shooting at Lekki protesters  US closes Consulate in Lagos  NUJ urges Buhari to break his silence and address Nigerians   Demonstrators have continued to persist in daily protests across the country, including the FCT, for almost two weeks over widespread claims of kidnapping, harassment and extortion by a police unit otherwise known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). In Kano, youths joined the nationwide #EndSARS protests. However, hoodlums reportedly hijacked the protest, killing two women along Airport Road.  Over 15 vehicles were said…

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NECO shifts exam over #EndSARS protest

Ishaku Yohanna

The National Examination Council (NECO) has rescheduled its Oct. 19, Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE) following #EndSARS protest. Mr Azeez Sani, Head, Information and Public Relations Division, NECO said this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. “This is to inform the general public and especially candidates that the NECO has been constrained to reschedule the Paper one Computer Studies Practicals earlier scheduled to take place on Oct. 19, to Nov. 16. ?”This unforeseen incident has been caused by the #EndSARS protest that blocked the free movement of transport…

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Buhari meets NASS leadership at Aso Villa over ENDSARS protests

Ishaku Yohanna
Lawan and Gbajabiamila

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met behind closed door with the leadership of the National Assembly at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Senate President Ahmad Lawan and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila represented the leadership of NASS at the meeting which was presided over the president. Speaking to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Senate President said the meeting specifically deliberated on how best to address the ongoing ENDSARS demonstrations being witnessed in some parts…

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#EndSARS protests spread to more states

Ishaku Yohanna

Undaunted by restriction from government security agents, Nigerians youths continue to agitate for an end to brutality, extortion, harassment, and extrajudicial killing by police. The agitations started first in Lagos and Abuja last Wednesday. It has now gained national momentum as almost every state in Nigeria now has a convergence point where the youths are chanting ‘End SARS, End police brutality, stop killing u s’. Port Harcourt the capital of Rivers State; Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State; and Enugu the capital city of Enugu are some of the…

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#EndSARS: Protests turn violent, Buhari appeals for calm, orders IGP to reform squad

Ishaku Yohanna

·  Lagos Assembly calls for proscription of police unit There was violence in Osun and Abuja on Friday as youths protest against police brutality and extortion. Hundreds of youths poured out into the streets in some states across the country for a second day to get their voices heard as part of the ongoing protest to demand the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force after a video of a man allegedly being killed by police went viral. Hundreds of youths gathered in Ikeja in central…

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