ACTION GROUP ON FREE CIVIC SPACE
PRESS RELEASE #ENDSARS PROTESTS 2020: ONE YEAR AFTER October 20, 2021 Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, The Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) once again condemns in very strong terms the brutal attacks launched on thousands of unarmed young protestors demonstrating against police brutality during the October 2020 #ENDSARS protests, particularly at the Lekki Tollgate […]
RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION (RAMINBA)
#ENDSARS ANNIVERSARY SITUATION ROOM NEWSLETTER NO. 2 WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALL ARRESTED #ENDSARS ANNIVERSARY MARCHERS AT THE LEKKI TOLL GATE We hereby demand the immediate release of arrested #EndSARS Anniversary Memorial Marchers at the Lekki Toll Gate. We are now aware that despite the peaceful conduct of the Anniversary Memorial Marchers, Police […]
RADICAL AGENDA MOVEMENT IN THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION (RAMINBA)
185, Ikorodu Road, Palmgrove, Lagos Tel: 08034854066, 09097933015 _________ 20TH OCTOBER, 2021 #ENDSARS ANNIVERSARY SITUATION ROOM NEWSLETTER NO. 1 HOTLINES OF RAMINBA SITUATION ROOM FOR #ENDSARS ANNIVERSARY We of the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) express our unflinching solidarity with the #EndSARS Anniversary Memorial Marches taking place today, 20th October, 2021 […]
Remembering #EndSARS: Lingering Socio-political Unease Calls for Government-Citizen Reconciliation
October 14, 2021 “NPF’s excessive use of force has remained unchanged because many of the abuse cases have not been investigated. The inability of the state to investigate and hold perpetrators to account for their acts of terror on citizens have helped to build public distrust and resentment towards the men and women of the […]
#EndSARS and the Labour of our Heroes: Its Memorial Cannot Be Stopped
The recent threats of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu against citizens’ commemoration of the first-year anniversary of the #EndSARS rebellion is shameful, but not surprising. Over a hundred Nigerians were killed in cold blood by the repressive regime for simply demanding an end to police brutality. Many more were maimed, and […]
2022 BUDGET SPEECH – Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability
Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja Thursday, October 7, 2021 PROTOCOLS 1. It is my great pleasure to be here once again to present the 2022 Federal Budget Proposals to this distinguished Joint Session of the National Assembly. […]
A Nation Mourns: Death of Chike Akunyili
Death in any situation is painful, but when it is as brutal and senseless as murder, our hearts break twice. As a nation mourns a man known to many as the husband of late Professor Dora Akunyili, we as a family remember the man we call Daddy. He was a son — as a young […]
SITUATION ROOM AND EU-SDGN IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS EXPRESS EXPECTATIONS AHEAD OF ELECTORAL BILL HARMONISATION
Issued in Abuja at 11.00 am: Monday, 27th September 2021 As the National Assembly Harmonisation Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives sets for its conference on the Electoral Bill harmonisation, the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room and the EU-SDGN implementing partners call for a dispassionate, selfless decision-making process during the harmonisation. Nigerians have […]
PRESS STATEMENT: INCARCERATED ENDSARS PROTESTERS
September 22nd, 2021 “Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full […]
EiE Nigeria, MRA, PIN, SERAP Tackle FG 100 days into #TwitterBan
September 16th, 2021 “I hold very strongly to the view that there is press freedom and there is freedom of expression. They had always been there, and they will always be. On freedom of expression; I think it is important to listen to one another, understand each other, so we can make progress as a […]