By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on RFI
The Nigerian inquiry into the custodial deaths of 37 people suspected of illegal gold mining has implicated officers from the Mining Marshals, a paramilitary unit of Nigeria’s Civil Defence Corps. In its report issued on 27 October, it recommended compensation for survivors and the victims’ families, including 14 children.
A Nigerian federal inquiry recommends 1.4 billion naira in compensation for the families of 33 minors who died in detention and 44 survivors. Presented to Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo in Abuja, its report also recommends the dismissal of civil defence officers and reforms, Pmnewsnigeria reports.
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The ministerial commission of inquiry has asked the Nigerian government to apologise to families and survivors after 33 people detained in Minna died, including 14 minors. Its report attributes the deaths to overcrowding, detention conditions and failures of supervision, and rules out an epidemic, according to commission chair Jonathan Kure.
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A Nigerian ministerial commission accuses civil defence officers of cleaning and altering the detention site before investigators arrived, after 33 detainees died in Minna. The absence of the 16 September register and the burial of 30 bodies complicated the examinations, according to a report presented by Jonathan Kure.
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Five children from the same family died in Gombe, Nigeria, after a tanker hit the commercial tricycle taking them to school. Three other children were injured and hospitalised, Federal Road Safety Corps local official Samson Kaura confirmed, according to the Daily Post.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Daily Post ·
Nigeria to launch large-scale military equipment production within a yearNigerian Defence Minister Christopher Musa has announced the launch within a year of large-scale local production of military equipment. Intended for domestic needs and export, particularly to other African countries, the expansion was discussed at the opening of the AFRIDEX exhibition in Lagos, according to the Nigerian Defence Ministry.
Doumbouya gives Aïssata Sia Camara a house and diplomatic postGuinean President Mamadi Doumbouya has appointed Aïssata Sia Camara, a former worker on the construction site of the future National Assembly building, to the presidency’s state protocol service. He has also given her a house, a diplomatic passport and a sum of money, and plans to arrange diplomatic training, Africaguinée reports.The week in Africa
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