On this particular night, armed robbers had reportedly snatched a vehicle and the expressway was their surest route of escape.
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Obaseki revealed this at a meeting with Edo State youths on EndSARS on Friday at the Government House, Benin
Like most Nigerians, I was in support of the protest before it was seized and deployed for violence. Protests are only natural in a democracy. In fact, they are evidence that democracy is still kicking. But violence in whatever form should not be found among civilised people.
LERSA President, Chief James Emadoye, while inspecting the building on Wednesday preparatory to its inauguration and handing over to the Nigeria Police Force, said the project was 95 per cent completed.
The protesters, who took off about 12pm at Ita Olokan Area, went through Station Road before heading to Freedom Park, Osogbo, demanding an end to police brutality and asking for good governance.
This led to some of the protesters running helter-skelter.
Our correspondent who was on the ground noticed that the protesters arrived at the venue conveyed in buses.
Babatunde made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
It said all those indicted by the various judicial commissions will face trial.
It was gathered that one of the arrested was a lone protester dressed in a white, while the other is a journalist with Legit.ng
Falz, on his Instagram page, said those who were said to have been killed on October 20, 2020 must be remembered.
A statement signed by the Lagos Police Command’s Spokesperson, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said that a post was being circulated on social media stating that the protest was earlier approved by the police.
The state police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, in a statement said the state police command had information of plans by some youths and people to stage a protest on Wednesday in commemoration of the #EndSARS protest.
The police authorities and State Government had warned against another phase of protests.
NEC, chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), said this on Friday after a virtual meeting anchored from Abuja.
The Chief Magistrate, S. K. Matepo, refused to listen to the defendant’s plea and ordered him to be remanded in prison.
Another version of the story emerged later that the young man was not dead, but was injured after he jumped out of a moving police van operated by the Delta State local security network
The warning was contained in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola.
A statement signed by the State Police Command’s Spokesperson, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, revealed that the command had received information of a planned protest to mark one year of the #EndSARS protest.
The singer, whose song ‘FEM’ was used as an anthem by EndSARS protesters during the nationwide protests in 2020, opened up on Wednesday, September 29, during a chat on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.