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Police Commission to investigate report on EndSARS brutality On File photo The Police Service Commission (PSC) has pledged to investigate report of alleged police misconduct submitted to it by the Action Group on Free Civic Space in Nigeria. The Head of Press and Public Relations of the commission, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He said the group, led by Mrs Zikora Ibe, submitted the report titled: “ENDSARS: Police Brutality, Protests and Shrinking Civic Space in Nigeria” to the commission on Monday. Justice Clara Ogunbiyi, Commissioner, Representing ...

In affirmation of an earlier ruling in August 2020, the Supreme Court held that the age-long tradition which denied females any inheritance from their fathers was discriminatory and contravenes Section 42(1)(a) and (2) of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999. The matter was commenced by Gladys Ada Ukeje, the daughter of late Lazarus Ogbonna Ukeje in 2004 over her family’s decision to deny her inheritance in her father’s estate based on the Igbo native law and custom. After she won at the high court, the widow of her father, Mrs Lois Ukeje, and her son, Enyinnaya Ukeje, appealed the ruling at t...