Residents of Iwerekun and other coastal communities in Ajah in the Eti-Osa local government area of Lagos State have lamented facing the risk of being homeless following the threat of an imminent demolition in the area. The Nigerian Government has started a 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway which will pass through several communities, leading to demolitions. The Lagos State Government had disclosed its intention to start removing illegal building extensions and attachments across the state.
Justice Nicole Clay of the Lagos State High Court has discharged and acquitted three persons detained for their alleged involvement in the #EndSARS protest. The Take-It-Back Movement disclosed this on Monday in a statement. The organisation thanked the Lagos State chapter of the movement which undertook the legal cases and saw them to the end.
Pro-democracy group, the Take-It-Back Movement, has commended the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, for renovating another public-owned secondary school in Ondo State. The TIB stated this on Wednesday via a post on X platform, formerly Twitter. The group noted that this gesture came at a time when the Nigerian government had rather continued to prioritise “living a life of opulence, buying of SUVs, purchasing Presidential yacht over funding public education.”
Human rights and pro-democracy group, Take-It-Back Movement (TIB) has rejected the social media regulation bill submitted to the National Assembly by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and vowed to join the Nigerian masses to reject any form of dictatorship. NBC had announced the submission of a bill seeking to regulate social media to the National Assembly. The bill seeks to repeal and reenact the NBC Act, CAP L11 laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
A human rights and pro-democracy group, Take It Back Movement (TIB) has vowed to do everything lawful to resist Nigeria's secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) from subverting the right of Nigerians to protest in the country. The group said this on Monday morning while reacting to the DSS’s statement that it had uncovered plans by some unnamed people to organise violent protests in the country over the country’s socio-economic challenges.