Tag: Special Anti-robbery Squad
Nigerian government rejects ‘massacre’ report as error-strewn
Nigeria's government on Tuesday rejected a judicial report that described the killing of peaceful protesters in Lagos in October 2020 as a massacre, saying...
Black Lives Matter co-founder urges Nigeria to free jailed police protesters
A group of activists and celebrities, including a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, have signed an open letter to Nigeria’s president demanding...
Nigeria’s president vows to prevent repeat of anti-police brutality protests
Nigeria’s president will do what it takes to prevent a repeat of demonstrations against police brutality last month that led to unrest in which...
AU condemns use of violence against #EndSARS protestors
African Union Chairperson, President Cyril Ramaphosa, has called on the Nigerian government to desist from the use of violence and respect human rights and...
Fires burn in Lagos after Nigerian soldiers shoot anti-police protesters
Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos and several states were under curfews on Wednesday as unrest rooted in anti-police protests broke out again following a day...
Lagos locked down after protesters fired on, president urges calm
Lagos was under a round-the-clock curfew on Wednesday enforced by police roadblocks, as smoke rose from a flashpoint area in Nigeria’s biggest city where...
With Instagram, hashtags and bitcoin, young Nigerians boost anti-police protests
Ozioma Egemasi says Nigerian police slapped, whipped and struck him with the butt of a pistol when he refused to pay them a bribe....
Nigerian anti-police protesters must enter dialogue, minister says
Nigerians protesting against what they condemn as police brutality must end their daily demonstrations and enter into dialogue with the government on law enforcement...
Nigerian police pledge ICRC training as thousands protest nationwide
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will help train Nigeria’s new tactical force as thousands nationwide continued to march against police brutality...
Why are Nigerians protesting against police brutality?
Nigerians protesting police brutality have hit the streets across Africa’s most populous nation for more than a week, and the hashtag #EndSARS trended on...
Nigerian army plans nationwide exercise as protests rock country
The Nigerian army will begin a two-month national exercise, it said on Saturday, while denying the move was part of any security response to...
Protesters march on Nigerian parliament after army threatens to step in
Hundreds of protesters marched to the gates of Nigeria’s parliament on Thursday, hours after the army said it was ready to step in and...
Nigeria’s police disbands controversial anti-robbery Squad after protests
The head of Nigeria’s police dissolved its Special Anti-Robbery Squad with immediate effect on Sunday, a police statement said, prompted by days of protests...
Overhaul ordered of Nigerian special police unit
Nigeria's acting president ordered the overhaul of a police unit following allegations of human rights violations, his spokesman said, as government seeks...
Nigeria Senate to probe police brutality allegations
Lawmakers in the upper house of Nigeria's parliament voted to launch an investigation into alleged acts of brutality by a police specialist...
