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Policemen have fired tear gas as they confronted protesters who gathered at the Lekki toll plaza in Lagos State on Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2020 killing of #EndSARS protesters at the same location. Footage published live from the scene of the incident captures journalists, candidates of the 2027 Lagos governorship election, […]

The federal government still hasn’t confirmed whether officials at the airport screened the woman who tested positive for Ebola after arriving in Abuja from Uganda on October 3, despite the available N10 billion Ebola preparedness fund. President Bola Tinubu approved the immediate release of N10 billion for Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness in June. He also […]

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday ordered a probe of travel agencies suspected of facilitating the trafficking and exploitation of Nigerians in Libya. This move comes one month after FIJ published an undercover investigation documenting tales of deaths, starvation, rape, dehumanisation and modern-day enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans trying to cross into Europe through the Sahara Desert […]

It’s been six years since thousands of Nigerian youths across the country took to the streets to protest against police brutality, extrajudicial killings and extortion by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The protest, which started on October 8, 2020, quickly spread to other parts of the country. A major trigger was viral footage of what […]