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Nigerian officials say 103 bodies from 2020 protests will be buried. Activists allege a cover-up

ABUJA, Nigeria — More than 100 people who died in Nigeria in 2020 during protests against police brutality will soon be buried, authorities said, prompting allegations by activists on Monday of a cover-up and calls for a new investigation. Ogboye said the fatalities occurred during violence in many parts of the state and not at a protest site at the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

2020 Lekki toll gate shooting: Nigerian judicial panel condemns shooting as ‘a massacre’

CNN

CNN — Lethal violence committed by Nigeria’s military on the night of October 20, 2020 could be considered a “massacre,” a government-appointed panel concluded Monday – contradicting previous official accounts of the incident. The Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution at the Lagos Court of Arbitration had been charged with investigating last year’s notorious Lekki toll gate shooting in Lagos, …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Nigeria: Police fire tear gas in Lagos as protesters honoring Lekki toll gate shooting victims spill on to streets

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Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria CNN — Police in Lagos fired tear gas Wednesday as hundreds of demonstrators turned up at the Lekki toll gate in a memorial car procession to honor those who died during protests last year in Nigeria’s economic hub. Temilade Adelaja/Reuters Meanwhile, at a press conference held Wednesday in Abuja, the Nigerian government once again denied that …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Nigeria Lekki toll gate shooting: Devastated mother reveals horror of finding dying son at protest site

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Editor’s Note: The full names of some interviewees and the identities of others have been withheld for their safety. Lagos, Nigeria CNN — When Adesola heard about the shooting at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos on October 20, 2020, she immediately thought of her son who had earlier left home to join the hundreds of young people protesting against …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Nigeria protests: How a bloody night of bullets at the Lekki toll gate quashed a young protest movement

CNN

Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic imagery of injury and death. Two eyewitnesses told CNN they saw soldiers arriving in a Toyota Hilux pickup truck with “OP Awatse” written on it – the name of a joint military task force that operates in Lagos State. Someone in the crowd says, “you will live, you will not die.” As the live …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Hearings begin into killings of Nigerian protesters

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London CNN — A week after the killing of activists protesting police brutality in Nigeria’s largest city, a Lagos state government judicial panel began hearings into the violence on Tuesday. The eight-person Judicial Panel of Restitution at the Lagos Court of Arbitration will look at the claims against SARS, which was disbanded on October 11 in response to the protests, …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Beyonce sends support to protesters in Nigeria amid demonstrations against police violence

Daily Mail

Beyonce has spoken up in support of the ongoing protests against police violence and corruption in Nigeria. Using her voice: Beyonce spoke up in support of demonstrators in Nigeria who are currently protesting against police violence and for the end of a controversial police unit called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad or SARS 'I am heartbroken to see the senseless brutality …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Nigeria protests: President calls for calm after protesters shot in Lagos

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CNN — Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed for “understanding and calm” after protests against police brutality in Lagos turned bloody on Tuesday and Wednesday, with eyewitnesses and Amnesty International telling CNN that multiple demonstrators had been shot dead at Lekki toll gate and another site by Army soldiers, who then took the bodies away. It said that “evidence gathered …

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