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#EndSARS

20 Oct
• Falana: Police reforms announced in aftermath of #EndSARS protests were panic measures • Perpetrators escaping accountability over slow pace of justice, says Rinu • Police brutality, extortion persist in civil land matters • PSC: Lessons have been learnt, police taking citizens’ complaints seriously Two things have defined the year 2020 in history – the year of the COVID-19…
20 Oct
There years after the #EndSARS protest, a group, the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), has called for justice for the victims of the Lekki Toll Gate attack.
20 Oct
In October 2020, Nigeria witnessed a historic movement known as #EndSARS, a peaceful protest against police brutality. The journey of one individual, me, in the midst of this awakening, tells a story of hope, unity, and the sobering reality that followed. It all started on October 18, 2020, a date that would forever be etched…
11 Oct 2023
This is the third year memorial of the historic #EndSARS peaceful protests, and we stand in solemn remembrance of the bravery and determination exhibited by Nigerian youths who rallied together in October 2020 to demand justice and an end to police brutality.
29 Sep 2023
Our youths are restive. We cannot pretend to be ignorant about this. Still, our political leaders choose to pretend about it and the danger it portends for the country and its future. Youths are potent forces for change – both positive and negative. When their anger boils over, it turns into a tsunami. The youths…
7 Aug 2023
It is no longer news that the leakage of a memo of the Lagos State Ministry of Health to the State’s Procurement Agency has led to a plethora of reactions, re-echoing the same tissues of lies over the October, 2020 #EndSARS protests. The memo sought the approval of the State governor toward the award of…
27 Jul 2023
A group identified as #EndSARS Frontliners has rejected the mass burial proposed by the Lagos State Government for the 103 people who lost their lives in the October 2020 killings that took place at the Lekki Toll Gate.
24 Jul 2023
A lawyer Dele Farotimi has accused the Lagos State Government of suppressing the evidence of killings that occurred during the EndSARS protest in October 2020. Farotimi said this while reacting to a leaked memo that the Lagos government has approved the mass burial of 103 corpses recovered in the aftermath of the EndSARS protest. "It…
24 Jul 2023
Nigeria and other African countries have been urged to leverage youth power, culture, and creative economy for growth.
Lagos #EndSARS protest
23 Jul 2023
After three years, Lagos State Government on Sunday confirmed that it has prepared the bodies of 103 #EndSARS protest victims for mass burial. The permanent secretary in the ministry of health Olusegun Ogboye in a statement, however, stated that none of the bodies were retrieved from the Lekki tollgate. “For the records, the Lagos State…
29 Jun 2023
By designating June 12 as Democracy Day in Nigeria, former President Muhammadu Buhari heeded the popular demand to further immortalise the winner of the June 12 ,1993 election, Chief MKO Abiola and put a balm on the wounds inflicted on millions of Nigerians...
24 May 2023
The Senate on Wednesday passed for second reading, a bill seeking to compensate victims of the EndSARS protest.