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  Clarification: 71,040 Unprocessed Citizens Lost In Police Custody In 16 Years; Not “30,400” Intersociety, Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria Tuesday, 27th Oct 2020 The attention of Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law has been drawn to a calculation error contained in our statement of Sunday, 25th Oct 2020 where we mistakenly stated that “30,400 unprocessed citizens died in police custody across the country since 2004 or in the past 16 years”. The years under review includes 2020 technically deemed to have exhausted”. Using a national projection (allowed in social science research) “from available independent statistics”, our statement ought to have correctly read ’71,040 police custodial deaths in 16 years or since 2004’ and not “30,400”. We, therefore, take apologetic responsibility for the calculation error even though there is no perfection in everything. It must be stated further that our referenced two-page statement represents some total of the findings of several loc...

  Credit: Sahara Reporters A victim, who craved anonymity while speaking to SaharaReporters in Abuja on Friday, alleged that the thugs were conveyed in police trucks to the area to launch the attack. Some of the victims of recent attacks by hoodlums in Apo mechanic village in Abuja have narrated their ordeal after they escaped death by a whisker. Reports estimated that over N200 million worth of vehicles and properties were burnt beyond recognition during the attacks. Some of the traumatized victims described the attack as a deliberate attempt to keep them out of business. A victim, who craved anonymity while speaking to SaharaReporters in Abuja on Friday, alleged that the thugs were conveyed in police trucks to the area to launch the attack. He added that the hoodlums attacked them with weapons shortly after they disembarked from the police vehicles. He revealed that one of his apprentices managed to drive away a Toyota Sienna from the scene of the attack. A car dealer, who was al...

Credit: Source COMMUNITY leaders in various local government areas of Plateau State on Tuesday lamented the killings in their domains, saying that no fewer than 80 persons, comprising children, women and youths were murdered by suspected herdsmen in the state in the past three months The spokesman for the affected communities, Benjamin Shaweng, disclosed this at a press conference in Jos on Tuesday. Shaweng, who named Barkin Ladi, Jos South, Riyom, Bassa, and Bokkos LGAs, as the worst hit, said, “Two weeks back, an attack was staged in the sleepy village of Wereng in Riyom LGA, where six persons were killed. He said, “We are pleased to say that reliable sources close to us have it that about four suspects have so far been arrested. While we celebrate this, we are sad to note that the usual Abuja Agenda is on again; putting massive pressure on security agencies that effected the arrest to transfer the suspects to Abuja. “Between January and February, 13 youths were gruesomely murdered a...

 Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, has backed the ongoing End SARS protests across the country. The cleric, however, absolved the president of the total blame, insisting that the problem of Nigeria and youth negligence started from past administrations. Mbaka, who was addressing his congregants in a viral video, noted that he has been calling on the Nigerian youth to rise up and challenge the bad system. He said, “Many people are asking why is Father Mbaka silent in the midst of this #EndSARS [protests]? Do you know when I started crying that our youths should rise up? “Is not yet time to speak, but if you people enjoy the situation you are in right now, then let it be. “All I’m trying to say is that the condition of our youths in this country is unbearable. The conditions are intolerable. “Not just in this Buhari administration but past administrations. A country where a sitting Senator will be sweeping millions upon millions every month. It has been like t...

  Hoodlums set ablaze the Bus Rapid Transit terminal at Oyingbo, Lagos Mainland, Lagos State, eyewitnesses said on Wednesday. They also burnt many BRT buses, at least three residents in the area confirmed. The eyewitnesses said there is tension in the area. One of the residents, Okanlawon, said two persons are feared dead. “Markets cannot open. We heard two people have died The hoodlums are angry. We are hearing gunshots’ sounds. Nobody can go out,” he told our correspondent on the telephone. Another resident, AnuOluwapo, said there were heavy gunshots at Adekunle Bus-Stop inward Third Mainland Bridge. This was also seen in a viral video seen by our correspondent. The leader of the local vigilante team in the area, Agbodemu Ishola, said, “When the news of police stations being burnt spread yesterday, some of us, including NURTW team and mainland security, met with the boys and pleaded with them to ensure that Lagos Mainland is crime-free. They agreed and promised to protest peacefu...

  EDWARD NNACHI writes that the unending crisis between herdsmen, whose animals destroy produce, and farmers in Ebonyi State poses a serious threat to food security in the state and its environs Forty-nine-year-old Ibiam Uchenna-Ogbuewu, a native of Ebunwana Edda community in the Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, alternates between conveying passengers on his commercial motorcycle and his rice farm in order to make ends meet. Uchenna-Ogbuewu has three hectares of rice farms in the Oso Edda community. And with the proceeds from the farm, he operated a hitherto popular pub in Amasiri taking care of his wife, five children, and aged mother. Before now, the children’s school fees were paid with ease and other family financial obligations met easily. But currently, Uchenna-Ogbuewu’s situation has changed for the worse. Today, the farmer’s health is challenged, bills are piling up and the flame of his once-popular pub is ebbing out. He narrates, “It all started around N...

  A group of parrots at a UK zoo had to be removed from display when they all started swearing at clients.  The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park embraced five African dim parrots on August 15 and put them into a room together to disengage.  Nonetheless, while they were in isolate, they figured out how to show each other a pile of indecencies.  The staff was left in hysterics when they understood what had occurred.  In any case, the recreation center quickly set the winged creatures back into separation when they began swearing at visitors.  Steve Nichols, CEO at the Friskney park, said that in the course of the most recent 25 years he has taken in numerous parrots "that have at times had a touch of blue language".  He told the Standard: "Occasionally you'll get one that swears and it's consistently entertaining. We generally think that it's humorous when they do swear at you."  Yet, he included that these recently received fowls had been stayed along wi...