, Mr Macaroni said the police stripped and beat arrested protesters, a violation of their constitutional rights.The Lagos state government distanced itself from the police’s action in detaining the protesters and said it will ask the Commissioner of Police to g“We condemn any act of brutality on the part of the police,” the state’s Commissioner of Justice said on“The Nigerian police force is a legal entity of its own, with its own processes.
Some 18 travellers have been kidnapped by bandits at Yakila village in Rafi Local government Area of Niger State. In Kaduna, a man and his son were in Igabi Local Government Area, barely one week after 23 people were killed in five Local Government Areas of the state.