An activist, Jacob Pwakim, has advised Nigerians protesting against the existence of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigerian Police Force, to be civil and peaceful in their protests. Pwakim, who is the Executive Director of an NGO, Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse (YIAVHA), gave the advice in … Read more
A retired police officer, Fulani Kwajafa, who championed the formation of the now-disbanded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) has said that he regrets creating it. He also said that the police formation had derailed from what it was created to do at inception Mr Kwajafa, in an interview with BBC Hausa Service Thursday programme, said … Read more
October 15, 2020. An end SARS protester, Mrs Nike Lawal was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. She stays at No.30, Anjorin Steet, Aminkanle, Lagos State. Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi disclosed in a statement on Thursday night, revealed the woman is an End SARS protester. She was arrested for driving carelessly and killing … Read more
By Ify Davies Popular website hack group known as anonymous has allegedly broken into the database of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force and released details of the officers in the now defunct unit. Anonymous is a popular decentralized global activist group that is popularly known for many cyberattacks against several governments, … Read more
Governors of the 19 northern states have opposed the scrapping of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). Plateau state governor and chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Simon Lalong, made the position of his contemporaries know on Thursday. Addressing state house correspondents l after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari … Read more
By Gboyega Akosile The world abhors vacuum, no doubt, but I find it indecent haste to have quickly formed a Special Weapons and Tactics team (SWAT) so soon after disbanding Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS). Why the haste in announcing a new police outfit which the ENDSARS protesters have indigeniously but justifiably described as a … Read more
October 14, 2020. Despite the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Sunday the #EndSARS protest continued in Abuja on Wednesday. The protesters used vehicles to block motorists at Berger roundabout in Abuja chanting ‘end police brutality’. This paralysed vehicular traffic in the area as impatient … Read more
Inspector-general of police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered all former operatives of the disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS) to report at the force headquarters in Abuja. The directive is sequel to the formation of new police unit to replace SARS following its disbandment. SARS is dissolved following nationwide agitation and protests calling for it scrapping after … Read more
The federal government has taken a decisive step towards reaching a compromise with the citizens who are clamouring for reform of the police and ensuring that their agitations are addressed presidential panel on the reform of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) on Tuesday accepted the five-point demand of the #EndSARS Protesters. Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, … Read more
I Don’t Deserve To Live. Lady Laments On How she Contributed To The Death Of Her Friend In Surulere. The EndSars protest by Nigerian youths doesn’t seem to have cooled off even after the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, with the president of Nigeria statement in support of such actions. A lady had taken … Read more
Davido, Nigerian artiste born David Adeleke, says he has received permission to set up an independent panel that will oversee the retraining and redeployment of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) officials. The singer held a meeting with Mohammed Adamu, the inspector-general of police (IGP), on Monday. In a broadcast on Sunday, Adamu announced that the … Read more
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has announced that the training of a new police unit which will be replacing the disbanded Special Anti -Robbery Squad (SARS) will commence next week. The IGP who disclosed this when Davido visited him in office on Monday October 12 over the ongoing #ENDSARS protests, said there is … Read more
A former commander of the defunct special anti-robbery squad (SARS), Vandefan Tersugh, has justified the actions of the rogue police unit. Tersugh says the policemen do not need court warrant to search people’s phone, noting that it raises suspicion for a young Nigerian to have a car worth N7 million. Tersugh said this during an … Read more
SARS, Senate President President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for listening to the voice of the Nigerians over their dissatisfaction with the operations of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force. Lawan gave the commendation in a press statement by his Special Adviser (Media), Mr Ola Awoniyi, … Read more
The federal government has dispatched reinforcement to Ogbomoso in Oyo State to restore peace and other as the social unrest and crisis that engulfs the town Worsens. Trouble began when a peaceful protest demanding for the dissolution of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) degenerated into a full-blown melee after the police used maximum force … Read more
The British Government on Sunday made it position known on the pervasive call for the dissolution of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police. The country has been enveloped in widespread protest against SARS and police brutality. SARS is notorious for kidnapping, extortion, torture and in some cases extrajudicial killings. The … Read more
Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara state, says he is against scrapping of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS). There is a nationwide protest against police brutality, harassment and killing of innocent Nigerians by SARS officers. The protesters asked the federal government government to disband the anti-robbery unit. Several public figures including Zahara Buhari, Kiki Osinbajo, and … Read more
By Simon Kolawole If you don’t know Ndubuisi (“Dele”) Udo, it is not your fault. The Nigerian police did not allow him to be great. As a teenage athlete in the 1970s, Udo was a collegiate champion at the University of Missouri in the United States. He was a three-time member of the National Collegiate … Read more
October 10, 2020. Popular Nigerian Musician, Banky W has reportedly listed what he calls the ‘six-negotiables’ to the Nigerian government on the SARS incessant brutality and extortion of the youths in the country. According to a post he made via Twitter, he held that officers caught extorting or assaulting citizens should be duly investigated and … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari says he has directed Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police, to address the concerns of Nigerians about police brutality. Accusing the special anti-robbery squad (SARS), a unit of the police, of human rights abuse, Nigerians trooped to the streets to demand the disbandment of the unit. Buhari had summoned the IGP to the … Read more