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- 6 Oct 2020
IG Bans SARS, Others from Searching People’s Phones, Laptops
Muhammed Adamu, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has banned policemen, especially men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) across the country from searching people’s mobile phones, laptops and…
- 12 Jan 2018
What Nigerians Should Look Out for on Digital Rights, Policy Landscape in 2018
By Adeboye Adegoke The year 2018 was heralded by the unfortunate news of the arrest of a UK-based, Nigeria blogger by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad popularly referred to as SARS at the early…
- 22 Sept 2016
How Police Detain, Rob Nigerians- AI
A special Nigerian police unit set up to combat violent crime has instead has used hangings, mock executions and other forms of torture to obtain confessions and bribes from criminal suspects and…
- 20 Sept 2015
Bank Manager, Dispatcher in Police Net for Robbery
Operations manager and dispatch rider of a bank in Effurun, Delta State, have been arrested by the police custody after a foiled bank robbery attempt. Police apprehended the duo shortly after the…
- 21 Oct 2020
Facebook, Instagram Censoring Protests against Police Violence- Report
Facebook and Instagram are falsely tagging content linked to peaceful anti-police brutality demonstrators in Nigeria as fake news, according to vice news . The issue was flagged by multiple social…
- 23 Oct 2020
Facebook, Instagram Apologised for Censoring #EndSARS Protests
Facebook and Instagram have apologised for wrongly tagging content linked to peaceful anti-police brutality demonstrators in Nigeria as fake news. According to Ime Archibong, Facebook spokesperson,…
- 2 Nov 2020
FG Rewards 12 Winners of 60-Day App Challenge
Federal government has rewarded 12 youths who won the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development 60-day App Challenge. Sunday Dare, minister of Youth and Sports Development 10 of the youths…
- 19 Oct 2020
Our Youth and the Protests, Looking Beyond End SARS
By Austin Okere The youth are not our enemies; let us remember this before we do anything rash such as using brute force to quell their protests. They are our children that have come of age. Their…
- 15 Oct 2020
#EndSARS: Hackers Down Police Website, Target other FG Websites
Hacktivists, a group, known for hacking repressive governments’ websites has rendered the official website of the Nigeria Police Force inaccessible after the group compromised its database Thursday.…
- 20 Oct 2020
Garba Asks Court to Ban Twitter in Nigeria, SERAP Hires Falana to Oppose Suit
Adamu Garba, Nigerian businessman Tuesday asked a federal high court in Abuja to ban Twitter from operating in any part of the country. But Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)…
- 16 Oct 2020
Activists Turn to Bitcoin for #EndSARS Protests as Banks Shut Them Out
As protests surge through Nigeria in response to police brutality, one enclave of protestors has turned to bitcoin as a financial lifeline during turbulent times, according to CoinDesk. The Feminist…
- 28 Oct 2020
#EndSARS, Ondo Election Results, Others Top Nigeria’s Google search trends in October
Google on Wednesday announced the top trending searches in Nigeria in October with Independence Day, #EndSARS, Ondo election results topping the trending search lists. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade.…
- 17 Nov 2020
#EndSARS: Insurers Battle with High Claims from Riots
Nigerian insurance companies are facing a huge bill in compensation following violence that rocked the country during the #EndSARS protests. Property worth about $5 billion has so far been declared…
- 28 Jun 2021
Jack Dorsey: Unpicking Twitter Boss's Passion for Nigeria
By Nduka Orjinmo - BBC News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is no stranger to controversy but in Nigeria he has become embroiled in the battle between the country's tech-savvy youths and a ruling class that…
- 16 Aug 2021
Police Burst Gangs Who Empty Bank Accounts with SIM Cards
Zakarriyah Yahaya, a 46-year-old suspect, also known as ”His Excellency”, on Monday revealed how and his gang emptied the bank accounts of many Nigerians using lost or stolen SIM cards. Yahaya, among…
- 10 Jan 2022
Dictators in Africa Using Social Media to Cling to Power
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is suspected of using fake social media accounts to consolidate his power. He wouldn't be the only one in Africa. Is social media becoming a threat to democracy on…
- 29 Mar 2017
Jumia Delivery Man Killed by Customers over iPhones
Mr. Chukwuma Eleje, delivery man with Jumia, an online marketing store, has been killed in a house on Ada George Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State because of two iPhones. The victim was said to be…
- 21 Apr 2017
CAPDAN Raises Alarm, Says Computer Village Under Police Siege
Computer and Allied Product Dealers at Computer Village (CAPDAN), Ikeja, have sent ‘Save Our Soul’ (SOS) message to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over extortion and abuse of operational…
- 12 Aug 2018
Leadership Crisis Rock CAPDAN, Computer Village Association
The Computer and Allied Products Dealer Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN), the market association of Ikeja Computer Village, has been thrown into leadership turmoil as a result of the inability of the…
- 22 Apr 2019
Police Arrests 10 Suspected Sim Swapping Fraudsters
Oyo State Police Command has arrested 10 suspected fraudsters who specialised in defrauding their victims by swapping their mobile phone SIM cards, through which they would have access to their…
- 30 Sept 2019
Nigerian Tech Community Battles SARS Over Illegal Arrests of Software Engineers
Nigeria’s technology leaders have launched #StopRobbingUs, a campaign to put an end to the common practice where Nigerian police stop young people with laptops and unlawfully arrest, attack or, in…