ANNUAL HERDERS’ ATTACKS: How Ortom saved Makurdi — Residents
By Peter Duru, Makurdi Residents on the outskirts of Makurdi main town may have been saved from yearly armed herders’ attacks as ambitious 24km road opens up forested communities thus sending attackers packing. The greatest challenge the Governor Samuel Ortom administration had to face on assumption of office in 2015 was armed herdsmen crisis. That […]
#ENDSARS, #ENDSWAT: Why police reform failed twice —Ex-Police Reform Chair
•’How President, govs undermine police’ •Reveals how rights’ abuse victims, families of extrajudicial killing casualty can get justice By Esther Onyegbula Former Chairman, Network on Police Reforms, NOPRIN, Okechukwu Nwangwuna, in this interview, speaks on the type of reforms needed for a better policing system in Nigeria. With hindsight, he reveals why past efforts at […]
Police bemoan beheading of three suspected kidnappers in Cross River
…No group has right to take life – CP By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Cross River State Police Command has condemned the gruesome killing of three suspected kidnappers stressing that no individual or group has the right to maim or take the life of another person irrespective of their offence. The reaction on coming […]
#ENDSARS AND PEOPLE POWER: FG gets new condition for protests to end
By Charles Kumolu, Deputy Editor So many things about the ongoing nationwide #EndSars protests are mind-blowing in this clime. Its origin, thrust, longevity, modus operandi and even direction are incredible.—never been seen. For a development, whose immediate causative factor could be traced to an incident in Ughelli, Delta State, to have had this mass following […]
SWAT: US elite law enforcement Nigeria wishes to emulate
By Yemie ADEOYE IT is no longer news that after almost a week of intensive national protests against the high handedness and reckless impunity of members of the Nigeria Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, popularly called SARS, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, finally disbanded the killer squad to the applaud and relief of […]
Despite my ordeal, no regret for my actions – Man whose viral video sparked #EndSARS protests
…Tells his story of arrest, detention By Perez Brisibe He obviously didn’t know that the video he was shooting at Ughelli, Delta State would trigger an outrage that would reverberate across the country. Prince Nicholas Makolomi merely felt he owed it a duty to alert the authorities and Nigerians to the illegal activities of some […]
