Weekly Updates on the #EndSARS Judicial Panels of Inquiry – No. 11
25th January, 2021 – 30th January, 2021 The Judicial Panels of Inquiry set up across Nigeria to investigate the excesses of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies have continued sittings in the week under review in the following 24 states: Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Cross-River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, […]
Office of The Lagos State Attorney-General & Commissioner For Justice
1. Our attention is drawn to the planned protest scheduled for Saturday February 13, 2021 at the Lekki Toll Gate for and against the opening of the Admiralty Toll Gate. 2. The State is aware of Sections 39 and 40 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which guarantees the Rights to Freedom of Expression and […]
Let’s stay the course of justice; partial wins are not enough
By Rinu Oduola After a month of silence, troll accounts dedicated to disparaging my work and sowing doubt about my age, occupation and right to express myself as a citizen of Nigeria were reactivated. Their task was simple: target me by releasing fake tweets and turn the public against me. My stand on the reopening […]
ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE, ALHAJI LATEEF KAYODE JAKANDE, AFTER BEING SWORN-IN FOR THE SECOND TERM OF OFFICE ON OCTOBER 1. 1983 AT 10.00 A.M.
Fellow Citizens of Lagos State, I have just been sworn-in for the second term of office as your Governor by the learned Chief Judge of Lagos State, Mr Justice Adetunji Adefarasin. The Swearing-in is the direct result of your own decision on August 13, 1983, when you elected me Governor by an overwhelming majority. By […]
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR JAKANDE TO THE PEOPLE OF LAGOS STATE — 1ST OCTOBER, 1979 & 1ST OCTOBER 1983
FELLOW Citizens of Lagos State, On Saturday, 28th, July 1979, you elected me, by 559,070 votes to 126,805, the first Executive Governor of Lagos State. Today, as a result of that election, the Chief Judge of this State, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of Nigeria, has invested me with the office. […]
Weekly Updates on the #EndSARS Judicial Panels of Inquiry – No. 10
18th January, 2021 – 23rd January 2021 In the week under review, 22 states, namely: Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ekiti, Gombe, Rivers, Taraba, Kwara, Edo, Kaduna, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ondo, Osun, Benue, Cross-River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Ogun and Plateau, held proceedings at the Judicial Panels of Inquiry on police brutality and other human rights abuses […]
Weekly Updates on the #EndSARS Judicial Panels of Inquiry – No. 9
28th December, 2020 – 16th January, 2021 The Judicial Panels of Inquiry on police brutality and other human rights abuses resumed proceedings after going on recess for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Reports from Yiaga Africa’s citizen observers deployed across the states show that 16 states, namely Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ekiti, Gombe, […]
Weekly Updates on the #EndSARS Judicial Panels of Inquiry – No. 8
14th December – 25th December 2020 In the last two (2) months, the Judicial Panels of Inquiry set up in 26 States have received petitions from victims of police brutality, their representatives, and others as part of the response to the demands of the #EndSARS protests across major cities in Nigeria in October 2020. Reports […]
Weekly Updates on the #EndSARS Judicial Panels of Inquiry – No. 7
7th December – 12th December 2020 The Judicial Panels of Inquiry set up by the state governments continue sittings in the FCT and 25 states while Oyo, Bayelsa, Kaduna and Kogi States are yet to commence sitting. Borno, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara states are yet to set up their Panels. The Panels […]
#ChibokGirls 2014, #Dapchi 2018 and Kankara 2020: No Lessons Learned
#BringBackOurGirls FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The #BringBackOurGirls movement received with predictable dread the news of the abduction of the unconfirmed figure of 333 schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School in Katsina State around 11: 00 p.m. on Friday the 11th of December 2020 by Boko Haram terrorists. Characteristic of the federal government of Nigeria, the […]