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Nigerian Army weekend decided to 'soro soke,' saying the newly-launched Exercise Crocodile Smile VI has nothing to do with the ongoing #EndSARS protests across the country. The Army, in a statement by its Acting Director, Public Relations, Sagir Musa, described the exercise as a yearly event set out to train...
  State sets up forensic lab for police investigations Allocate ₦50m as start up funds for victims compensation Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, Friday appointed Justice Solomon Olugbemi (retired) as Chairman of the Judicial Panel of Investigation on alleged cases of Police brutalities against citizens of the State. The...
• Increases Youth Representation To Two Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday, received in audience, Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd), chairman of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution set up to investigate cases of brutality and human rights violations committed by operatives of the dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad...
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has been wiggling between the demands by the protesters to discountenance the creation of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and the necessity for the immediate establishment of the new team to fill voids created by the dissolution of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),...
To further demonstrate his heart-led leadership qualities, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, visited the widow of the driver hit by stray bullet during the last Monday demonstration by youths in Surulere for the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The protest ended bloody when the police attempted to disperse...
A document obtained from the United States Government website has shown that Nigeria has been barred from the popular US Visa Lottery Application for 2022. In a 19-page document published on the website, Nigeria is the only African country barred from the lottery. “For DV-2022, persons born in the following countries...
No fewer than 37 police officers attached to the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) have been recommended for dismissal over allegations bordering on human rights violations. From the data contained in the report of the Special Presidential Panel set up by the Federal Government in 2018 on reform of SARS,...
The Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led Lagos State Government Friday said a total of 181 students and members of staff of a private boarding school located in Lekki area of the state have tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The Sanwo-Olu administration disclosed that the positive cases were detected during surveillance and...
Tola Oyediran, eldest child of late Premier of Western Region, Obafemi Awolowo, is dead. Echotitbits gathered that Oyediran passed on around noon on Friday at the age of 79. She was billed to celebrate her 80th birthday anniversary on December 1. READ ALSO: https://echotitbits.com/lagos-police-arrest-protester-who-allegedly-killed-two-in-fatal-accident/ Oyediran, until her death, was the Chairman, Board of Directors...
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday announced February 18, 2023 as the date for the 2023 presidential election. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who officially announced this in Abuja on at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Committee on 1999 Constitution Review, said there are just about 854 days left...