Tag: SARS
No plan to bring back SARS — IGP
Inspector-general of police Usman Baba says there is no plan whatsoever to bring back the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
The controversial police unit was...
Canada rejects former SARS operative’s application for asylum
Canada has rejected the asylum request of a former operative of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Olushola Popoola.
Mr Popoola’s application was rejected by...
Don Jazzy and girlfriend arrested me with SARS – Kelly Hansome
Former Kennis Music singer Kelly Hansome has claimed that CEO of Mavin Records Don Jazzy and an unnamed girlfriend once got operatives of the...
Bride-to-be Ifeoma Abugu: Panel orders police to release corpse for burial
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel on Wednesday ordered the police to release the corpse of Ifeoma Abugu who died in the custody...
Ex-Zamfara gov Yerima appears before NHRC panel over threat to life
Former governor of Zamfara State Senator Sani Yerima on Wednesday appeared before the independent panel of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
The panel is...
Peter Obi didn’t secure injunction to stop probe of SARS –...
Former vice-presidential candidate Peter Obi did not secure injunction to stop the probe of the disbanded police unit the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), his...
Amotekun must not transform into another SARS – Soyinka
Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has warned that the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed Amotekun, must not transform into another form of the disbanded...
Delta man whose video led to #EndSARS re-arrested
Police in Delta have re-arrested Nicholas Makolomi who allegedly made a video of operatives of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) shooting a boy...
I’m Evans’ sister, alleged SARS victim tells Lagos panel
There was a mild drama on Tuesday when a lawyer representing the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) confronted an alleged SARS victim...
SARS officials threw me from 2-storey building in Alaba, trader tells...
A trader Ndukwe Ekekwe on Tuesday told the Lagos judicial panel investigating cases of alleged police brutality that he was a paraplegic after officers...