Tag: police brutality
Police chief orders arrest of SARS officer over death of Remo...
Commissioner of Police in Ogun State has ordered the immediate arrest of an unidentified officer of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) who allegedly caused...
SARS official allegedly pushes Remo Stars player to death
Remo Stars Football Club has accused an officer of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Ogun of causing the death of one of its...
Kolade Johnson: Policeman acted within rules of engagement – Defence
Abayomi Omotubora, lawyer of Olalekan Ogunyemi, a dismissed police inspector accused of killing Kolade Johnson, 35, at a viewing centre in Lagos, on Thursday,...
Tabay: BBC exposes brutal torture by Nigerian security forces
The BBC Africa Eye has released a documentary exposing
torture as a form of information-gathering technique and punishment among
security forces in Nigeria.
The 15-minute documentary published...
Actor Damola Olatunji clashes with police on movie set
Nollywood actor, Damola Olatunji, has allegedly been harassed by policemen while on the set of his new movie, Adajo Agba, at Berger area of...
Four policemen arrested over killing of mechanic accused of robbery in...
Four police officers in Rivers have been arrested and
detained over alleged torture to death of late Chima Ikwunado and inflicting
injuries on four others arrested...
#JusticeForChima: Police allegedly kill mechanic accused of robbery in Rivers
A journalist, Comrade
Phils, has accused the police in Rivers State of beating a mechanic to death
after falsely accusing him of robbery.
Phils said in a...
Wizkid apologises over killing of fan by policeman
Pop singer, Wizkid, has apologised for the killing of a male fan of his who was returning from his StarBoyFest concert held on Thursday...
Police officer dismissed for shooting Wizkid’s fan dead in Lagos
Police in Lagos have dismissed a sergeant, Lukmon Akanbi, for killing a man who was returning from Wizkid's StarBoyFest concert at Eko Atlantic area...
Policeman accused of killing Kolade Johnson remanded in Ikoyi prison
An Ikeja High Court has remanded a dismissed police inspector, Olalekan Ogunyemi, at the Ikoyi Prisons following his arraignment for the alleged murder of...