The Centre for Africa Liberation and Socio-Economic Rights (CALSER) has issued asked the International human rights group, Amnesty International to leave Nigeria within seven days . The group which made this known at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja accused the international body of “peddling fake news which almost plunged the country into anarchy during […]
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Lekki Shootings: GAW, others petition Lagos panel, seek sanction for fake news
Some human rights groups have approached the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution seeking the indictment of several Nigerian celebrities and international non-governmental organisations accused of inciting violence through fake news. According to the groups, these Nigerians and NGOs must be punished for what it called gross misinformation which triggered the near-breakdown of […]
Lekki Shooting: Group discredits Lagos panel over Sanwo-Olu
The Women for Peace, Justice and Human Rights Initiative has declared as incompetent, the Lagos State panel of inquiry set up to investigate the police brutality in the state. The group, therefore, called on the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and President Muhammadu Buhari to stop further proceeding in the ongoing investigations by […]
Police/Lekki shootings: Group passes vote of no confidence on Lagos panel
The Progressive Yoruba Youth (PYY) has passed a vote of no confidence in the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution instituted by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to investigate police brutality and high handedness. According to the group, the panel has so far come short of high expectations of Lagosians, reduced to something of a “circus […]
Lekki Shooting: Amnesty International report product of social media exaggeration, fake news, group says
A special report has revealed that Amnesty International succumbed to social media exaggeration and fake news in its report on the Lekki toll gate shootings in Lagos State. The Centre for International and Strategic Studies (CISS) said it arrived at this conclusion after a systematic analysis of the events that led to the escalation of violence […]
Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry as a Kangaroo Contraption
By Thomas Uzah The recent happenings in the country indeed call for concern from discerning minds. The EndSARS protest has opened a new vista in the battle for the soul of the country. Those against the interest of the country almost had their way, but for a timely intervention, which some segment of the country […]
Sanwo-Olu’s Kangaroo Court on Lekki
By Philip Agbese Anyone taken aback by the turn of events around the #EndSARS protests and the Lekki Toll Gate conundrum in Lagos State must have been negligent of the events that led to the 2019 election that produced Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the state governor. He emerged candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress […]
Lekki and Sanwo-Olu’s Macabre Dance
By Sola Oteniya Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu appears to me as the latest and finest jester to emerge on the country’s political firmament. Lagos is very strategic being the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria. Years back, I read even intellectuals stylishly referring to it as the macrocosm of Nigeria. In saner climes, whoever is […]
Lekki Shootings: South West group absolve Army, supports troops
The Coalition of Oduduwa Descendants (COD) have absolved the Nigerian Army of any wrongdoing at Lekki toll gate or any part of the country during the EndSARS protests. In a statement signed by General-Secretary, Kolawole Emmanuel, on Monday, the Oduduwa group said the troops acted in the best interest of the nation. According to the COD, […]
EndSARS and the betrayal of our humanity
By Charles Ibekwe With the turbulence of #EndSARS protests gradually calming down in states rocked by the senseless riots in the pretext of protests by some Nigerian youths, a lot have been exposed. Nigerians now know the covert agenda of some leaders and senior citizens to destabilize the country, through clandestine sponsorship or encouragement of […]