Activists for Good Governance (AGG) has called on the EndSARS campaigners to suspend the protests to allow the authorities carry out the promised police reforms.

Nigerian protesters protesting an end to police brutality in the country have shown their relentlessness in achieving a "better Nigeria." As protests with the #EndSARS currently rocks the nation and has spread to other parts of the world, Nigerian singer Reekado Banks chose to announce the release of a new song. Banks in a tweet…

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says the National Assembly will ensure that the five demands made to the Executive by #EndSARS protesters are implemented. Lawan gave the assurance on Thursday at plenary after the Senate was briefed by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi (APC – Kebbi North) on the intervention by the leadership to…

Award-winning Nigerian rapper and singer Folarin Falana professionally known as Falz has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. The vocal entertainer has been a strong voice in the ongoing #EndSARS protests seeking an end to police brutality, harassment, extortion, extra-judicial killings among other vices. In the open letter, Falz requested a reconstitution of…

The Federal Capital Territory has banned protest against police brutality in all parts of Abuja. Anthony Ogunleye, spokesman to FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello announced the ban in a statement on Thursday. Ogunleye said the decision to ban the protest was made when the FCT Security Committee met to review the security situation in…

Lagos State government has denied using thugs to chase the EndSARS protesters around the state secretariat, Alausa. In a statement on Thursday, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso said: "The attention of the Lagos State Government has been drawn to some unverified reports in the social media alleging that the government-sponsored thugs…

Nigeria's army said Thursday it was ready to help "maintain law and order" as demonstrators hit the streets again to protest police brutality despite official pledges of reform.

Armed thugs attacked protesters in Alausa area of Ikeja in Lagos State. The scene of the attack was close to Lagos Government secretariat, Lagos State House of Assembly, governor's office and a police station. Although eyewitnesses said the attackers came in Bus Mass Transit (BRT) buses that belong to the Lagos State Government, authorities of…

Scores of youths protesting against brutality and high-handedness by the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Police on Thursday blocked the entrance to National Assembly. The youths, with placards and inscriptions protesting an end to police brutality, were also chanting songs urging an immediate reform of the police force. They were, however, stopped…

Celebrated Nollywood actress Funke Akindele-Bello best known for her role as "Jenifa" in "Jenifa Diaries" has lent her support to the ongoing #EndSARS protest in Nigeria. The protest that has been on for over a week now is a call to the Nigerian government to put an end to police brutality in the country. The…

A coalition of youths from Kebbi, Zamfara and Sokoto states have canvassed need the holistic reformation of the Nigerian Police saying the security outfit needs improved funding and reforms that would make them more efficient and professional in discharging their duties. According to them, this would go a long way to curtail some of their…

Music is one of the expressive mediums that has given a voice to the long-overdue struggle to end the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). “For many years, SARS has become identified with a dark cloud of terror as a series of well-documented cases of abuse including extortion, torture, harassment and extra-judicial murder have moved from being…