Kolade Johnson
6 Mar 2020
A pathologist, Oluwaseun Williams, yesterday, testified before an Ikeja High Court that a 35-year-old football fan, Kolade Johnson, killed by a policeman at the Mangoro area of Lagos State...
11 Dec 2019
Respected Nigerian musician cum politician in an Instagram post on his page today has called on Nigerians to take action on the issues bedevilling the country. The EME boss who cited issues like gender inequality, gender-based violence, human rights abuse, social media bill among others urged Nigerians to ensure that they do something in their…
24 Apr 2019
Security agents, especially the Police are primarily meant to secure citizens and ensure their safety. But for Kolade Johnson...
12 Apr 2019
Popular Nigerian singer and actor, Ikechukwu has warned of what will happen if any official of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) ever try to harass him the way they harass other Nigerian citizens. The entertainer shared a heartbreaking video of SARS officials harassing and beating a man because he refused to let them search his…
12 Apr 2019
Everywhere in our country today the wind is moaning the mournful sound of suffering, pain, tragedy and death. Wherever we are in our rooms, kitchens, streets, footpaths or wherever we suffer the depredations of a hostile, unfathomable, mysterious nature. And one cannot but have the impression that our country is a jungle, a wild jungle…
6 Apr 2019
A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ebute-Metta, presided over by Magistrate A. O. Salawu, yesterday ordered that dismissed...
6 Apr 2019
His aspiration was to be a celebrity. And he pursued the dream with a passion. Unfortunately, it was in death that Kolade Johnson...
5 Apr 2019
Lagos State Police Command on Friday said the officer who shot Kolade Johnson to death on Sunday has been arraigned in court. "Today 5th April 2019 ... our Criminal Investigation Department, Panti has arraigned dismissed Inspector Ogunyemi Olalekan in Ebute Meta Magistrate Court and remanded in prison custody," Lagos State police spokesman Bala Elkana said…
5 Apr 2019
The Nigeria Police Force yesterday dismissed the police officer that allegedly killed Kolade Johnson. According Lagos Police Spokesman, Bala Elkana, the judgment was served in an orderly room trial by the Lagos State Police Command...
5 Apr 2019
What a country is our country, this country that is our country. As I write, I wonder who we are as a people and as human beings civilized enough to live in our part of the world whose inhabitants some fellows who are kind-hearted enough have endeavoured to nourish as highly bred and cultivated beings.…
5 Apr 2019
The death of Kolade Johnson brought back the intense push for police reforms that had been embodied by the hashtag #EndSars. It was another worryingly recurrent display of extrajudicial killing and police brutality. Although the Lagos State Police Command has arrested and dismissed the anticultism operatives that were involved in the killing of the youth,…
5 Apr 2019
The brutish killing of a football fan, Kolade Johnson, last Sunday in Lagos by trigger-happy policemen attached to the state’s anti-cultism unit, and the public outcry that followed, was one police killing too many and a rude awakening to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to rein in its personnel from citizens’ extortion and killing before…
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