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Kenyans are pouring outrage on social media following the nailing of a teenager to a tree by unknown persons over alleged radio theft. Nineteen-year-old Collins Sambaya was found in the morning nailed to a tree in his Izava Village in Vihiga County, on Friday. February 18, 2022. Sambaya was secured to the tree, arms wide apart, with two roofing nails driven through each palm of his hands. Shocked villagers reported the incident to the police, who promptly rescued him. Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) confirmed the incident in a statement. The incident brought Izava Village to a standstill, with shocked and distraught villagers watching in disbelief from a distance as officers rescued Sambaya and rushed him to a hospital. According to the DCI, a manhunt has been launched for the suspects “with the area security team employing every available resource to apprehend the suspects.” Vihiga County is an administrative region in the former Western Province of Kenya...

A Georgia judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for what he called the “killing" 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man running through their mostly white neighbourhood in the southern U.S. state. Judge Timothy Walmsley also gave a life sentence to their neighbour William "Roddie" Bryan but ruled that he could seek parole after 30 years in prison, the minimum sentence allowed for murder under Georgia law. Echoing comments made by Arbery's anguished relatives earlier in the hearing at Glynn County Superior Court, the judge condemned the three men for what he described as their mistake of failing to see Arbery as just another neighbour. He said he gave the McMichaels the harshest sentence available in part because of their "callous" words and actions captured on a cellphone video that sparked national outrage when it became public in the summer of 2020. "I...

In devastating revelation the #EndSars judicial Panel setup by the Governor of Lagos State BabaJide Sanwo-Olu has indicted the Nigerian government and with findings showing the what happened on the 20-10-2020 was indeed a Massacre. Lies emanating from all sector of the Buhari led administration claiming in all boldness that the were no deaths at the toll gate and that no one was killed. This crime against humanity and the Nigerian people goes deeper than we think. the amount and level of cover up the government enacted  is overwhelming today the least.  "Nobody died at the lekki toll gate" Where are those evildoers, who disputed the atrocities? Those who believe @OfficialAPCNg is more important than the lives of Nigerian. Awon oloribu, they called DJ Switch every unprintable names… #Enikure casualties in #lekkimassacre 👇 pic.twitter.com/L2fpsBPamk — Adetutu Balogun, MBA (@Tutsy22) November 15, 2021 They had to hurriedly carry bodies away and conceal them as they (so...

Govt must implement recommendations —United Nations Reacting to the report, the United Nations urged government’s commitment to implementing the panel’s recommendationsIn a statement by the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, the body said: “I welcome the submission to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of reports of the judicial panel on claims of brutality and shooting in the Lekki area of Lagos State, during the 2020 EndSARS protests. “I urge the government to implement the recommendations of the judicial panel to rebuild trust and start the process of healing and reconciliation.” LASG should address abuses, grievances of victims —United State of America Similarly, the United States government, in its reaction to the panel report, called on the Federal and Lagos State governments to seek suitable measures to address the alleged abuses, as well as the grievances of victims of the 2020 #EndSARS protest. The statement issued by the US E...

Rapper and actor, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz The Bhad Guy, and Comedian Debo Adebayo, popularly known as Mr Macaroni, have joined the car procession at the #EndSARSMemorial protest at Lekki tollgate in Lagos. This is despite a ban on protests in Lagos and the heavy presence of armed police personnel at the tollgate.  The celebrities and other activities who turned up at the tollgate with their cars were seen waving Nigerian flags from inside the vehicles and honking the horns while singing solidarity songs. Some of the activists who spoke to newsmen stated that they will continue going to and fro the tollgate as their own way of protesting against the alleged killing of protesters at the tollgate on October 20, 2020. The tollgate was the epicentre of the protests against police brutality and bad governance last year October. Youths who gathered day and night at the tollgate were dispersed from the location by gun-wielding soldiers on October 2...