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Gimba Kakanda at #EndSARS protest ground A Daily Trust columnist, Gimba Kakanda, was assaulted by police for protesting on Sunday in Abuja. Kakanda, whose column, Beyond the Surface, appears in the Sunday edition of Daily Trust, told the newspaper that the attack was “traumatising” and a “close shave with death in the hands of the police”. Gimba Kakanda at #EndSARS protest ground The protest has been on for days with citizens demanding the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, which has come under criticism for human rights abuses, extortion, intimidation, harassment and killings. Police had teargassed and used water cannon on a crowd of protesters marching from Unity Fountain toward the Force Headquarters on Sunday morning. Minutes after the crowd was dispersed, Kakanda got a lift to return to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development to retrieve their cars. “When we reached the first barricade and explained ourselves, they let us in. We didn’t know it w...

Three children of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano State, has been positioned to take over from Tijjani Jobe, lawmaker representing Dawakin-Tofa/Tofa/Rimin Gado Federal Constituency. SaharaReporters had earlier on Friday reported how Jobe was on Sunday attacked by angry youth in his constituency . The youth alleged that he did not deliver the dividends of democracy to them. The incident happened when the lawmaker went to inaugurate a project at Gulu, a village under Rimin Gado Local Government Area. Youth Beat Up Kano @HouseNGR Member Over Non-performance, Failed Promises | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/okSBfZ9zuf pic.twitter.com/jmpUhC71o1 — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) October 16, 2020 A source told SaharaReporters on Friday that all was not well with Governor Ganduje and Jobe and his attack might not be unrelated to that. It was gathered that Umar, Aseeya and Abdulaziz Ganduje have already started jostling to take over from the lawmaker with their f...

Bunmi Makinwa Days of protests have shaken Nigeria in a way that is different from any other protest since “Alli Must Go” in 1978, a nationwide student protest against military government over increased costs of feeding on college campuses that rocked the country to its roots.  The apparent lack of organizational structure for #ENDSARS is unique. It has no visible arrowheads, no visible locations of its births and no prior building blocks. “Ali Must Go” had university student union leaders in charge, it had tertiary institutions for convergence of ideas and tactics, and it had many years of fervent student unionism and activism against the then dictatorial military governments. What #ENDSARS owns is the Internet and its limitless uses. Even more important to the burgeoning protest is the sudden awareness that real power belongs to the people. Our young people should have known this fact. They waited, watched, lost direction as the leadership in all sectors failed the nation...

Adeniyi Akintola A prominent legal practitioner and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Adeniyi Akintola, has narrated the ordeal of his son-in-law in the hands of operatives of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force. Speaking with SaharaReporters on Monday, Akintola said the concentration of power at the central government in Nigeria is the root of numerous deficits, including the police brutality negating the West African country. Adeniyi Akintola Last week, Nigerian youth began #EndSARS protests, calling on the Federal Government to scrap SARS in the country.  Their agitations were hinged on the criminality and brutality of SARS against citizens. It was demonstrated at major cities including Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, Warri, Ughelli, Ogbomoso and others.  The demonstrations at different places of the country were championed by celebrities in the entertainment industry.  The likes of the British-Nigerian actor, John Boyega, and music a...