On Wednesday, news of Adeola Akinmola’s arrest and detention after her critique of Naija Hair Factory's services went viral.
We spoke to Akinmola, and according to her, she was detained without investigation and her bail was delayed unnecessarily.
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Mohbad’s demise has stirred an onslaught of false and misleading information on social media in the last few days. However, these 14 events have been confirmed true according to our findings.
In another customary move for Nigerian presidents, we now have new Service Chiefs. Let’s look into who they are and the experiences under their belt.
Police brutality never takes a break in Nigeria and Bolanle Raheem, a Lagos-based lawyer, is the latest victim of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF). Here’s what we know so far about her Christmas Day murder.
Our first subject of Navigating Nigeria is traumatised every time he sees a police checkpoint. This is his story of surviving Nigeria years after security forces gunned down young Nigerians who demanded an end to police brutality.
As we mark the second anniversary of EndSARS, we look back at how the movement started and ended in the tragedy of October 20, 2020.
A woman who sells loans to Nigerian police officers walks us through the chaos of dealing with aggressive officers on a daily basis, why she dislikes the job and her plans for the future.
The police waited until it was dark, like around 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm next thing we knew, they started releasing canisters of tear gas at us. The 100 plus people who came for the protest started running for their lives. It was like a mini-stampede.
On the 3rd of October 2020, men of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) shot and killed a young man in Ughelli, Delta State. Since then, there has been a spate of reprisal attacks against men of the Nigerian police unit, as seen in videos released on Twitter. The shooting and its aftermath brought to […]
This weekend, Nigerians had a lot to say about the Special Anti-robbery Squad, and they expressed their frustration in clear terms. Meanwhile, The Nigeria Police Force responded by issuing new instructions about SARS: The Commissioner of Police (Mohammed Adamu) stated that F-SARS and other “tactical units” in the Police were subsequently banned from routine patrols […]