Tag: TORTURE
Female professor arrested for allegedly ordering torture of policewoman
The police have arrested a female professor, whose identity has not been confirmed, for allegedly torturing her police orderly.
The policewoman assigned to the professor...
DSS denies torturing Buhari’s driver to death
The Department of State Services (DSS) has discredit a report it tortured Sai’du Afaka, President Muhammadu Buhari’s official driver, to death.
In a statement on...
How police rescued man locked in father’s garage for 3 years
Police in Kano on Friday said they rescued a 30-year-old Ahmed Aminu who was locked up in his father's car garage for three years...
Military disowns videos of officers torturing people to enforce lockdown
The Defence Headquarters has distanced itself from videos
circulating on social media of its personnel torturing people allegedly to
enforce the stay-at-home order over the coronavirus...
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...
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...
Teenager tortured to death for being ‘too attractive’
Russian police have arrested two
teenage girls suspected to have murdered their close friend and former classmate
for being ‘too attractive'.
The victim, Viktoria Averina, 17, was
found...
Another Nigerian ‘tortured’ to death by South African police — NUSA
Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA) has alleged that the police in South Africa have tortured another Nigerian to death in Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu-Natal Province.
NUSA...
AIG detains four policemen over alleged torture of 20-year-old to death...
The arrest and detention of four policemen
over the death of a 20-year-old guard, Jubril Mohammed, has been ordered by the
Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone...