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News in-depthGermany
Bombs, car chases and ‘free money’: Dutch gangs blow up German cash machines
...A helicopter chased the car, and a dog squad was mobilised. The gangsters promptly ran into a police roadblock where their Audi’s tyres were slashed by a spike belt....
July 21, 2023
OutlookAanu Adeoye
Nigeria’s elections show the youth vote counts
...In 2020, young Nigerians across ethnic and class lines protested against a particularly brutal police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or Sars, that was famous for extorting from, harassing and even...
March 7, 2023
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
Transcript
Transcript: Episode 2 - Cocaine CEO
...Michael O’SullivanWhereas most criminals will think of the next job, I bet you I could do that robbery and I could get some money. He would think further down the road, far more strategically....
December 5, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Episode 3 — Sun, guns and sangria
...Miles JohnsonMichael and his colleagues in the organised crime squad try and contain the violence. Michael O’ SullivanYou get as proactive as possible....
December 7, 2023
News in-depthSouth Africa
Ex-spymaster’s claims threaten Ramaphosa’s image as South Africa’s reformer
...The country’s specialist Hawks anti-corruption squad began a probe this month....
June 21, 2022
HTSI
Inside the secret world of the bodyguard
...Emperor Augustus created the Praetorian Guard (the first historical record of humans employing bodyguards) to shield himself and his family from assassination, kidnap, robbery and, of course, the general...
November 30, 2022
FT Live
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Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Magazine
Meet the prosecutors who work to imprison your enemies — for a fee
...We dealt with armed robberies. We dealt with drugs offences. We dealt with rapes, murders and everything else,” he told me. “We ain’t making loads of money, but . . . we’re doing something we love.”...
May 19, 2023
Nigeria
Nigeria lifts Twitter ban after company agrees to conditions
...Protests against police brutality swept through the country of 200m last year, rallying under the hashtag #EndSARS, which referred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a notorious police unit....
January 12, 2022
Watches & Jewellery
Watch Register helps to beat the timepiece thieves
...Such crimes are not usually one-off robberies by opportunists....
September 3, 2021
Nigeria
Nigeria: Africa’s paradoxical powerhouse
...In recent years, the EndSARS protest movement against police brutality — and specifically Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad — morphed into a wider call for greater accountability....
February 15, 2022
Markets InsightAdam Samson
What a $600m heist tells us about the future of crypto
...It has been a cinematic experience, the new-age version of a bank robbery flick, replete with a colourful thief, a squad of digital vigilantes and any number of armchair detectives watching it all play out...
August 12, 2021
Nigeria
Nigeria’s ‘authoritarian’ Twitter ban decried by activists and west
...The movement to EndSARS, which refers to Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, has largely been dormant since a violent crackdown at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos last October when soldiers opened fire on...
June 7, 2021
David Pilling
Twitter’s fight with Nigeria is an omen of things to come
...Twitter became the forum on which a new movement, known as #EndSARS after the brutal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, flourished....
June 10, 2021
Nigeria
Nigeria dissolves violent crime police unit after anti-brutality protests
...The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) has been accused of extrajudicial killings, unlawful detention, kidnapping, torture, extortion and robbery....
October 11, 2020
News in-depthNigeria
Youth of Nigeria force Buhari’s hand as anger at police brutality boils over
...Nigerian protesters point out that the anti-robbery squad has been disbanded and renamed several times in recent years....
October 15, 2020
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
Kingsley Moghalu
A brutal crackdown in Nigeria exposes weakness at the top
...This month, Nigerians have protested against the country’s notorious police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, with cries of “End Sars!”....
October 21, 2020
The Art of Fashion
Made in Africa — colourful couture from the continent’s creatives
...The angular motifs were a thoughtful response to last year’s End SARS protests against police brutality and in particular Nigeria’s notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad....
April 8, 2021
Nigeria
Unrest in Lagos as outrage over violent crackdown escalates
...Protests have spread across Africa’s most populous country for nearly two weeks, after a video allegedly showing a member of the notorious federal police Special Anti-Robbery Squad killing a young man spread...
October 21, 2020
Nigeria
Nigeria cracks down on peaceful protesters
...The governor had earlier said the protests against the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, which is facing accusations of gross human rights abuses, had been hijacked by criminals....
October 20, 2020
Nigeria
How Lagos loses out in battle for investors
...Last autumn anti-police brutality protests swept the country under the banner of #EndSars — a reference to the notorious federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad — culminating in a violent crackdown on demonstrators...
February 1, 2021
Nigeria
Nigeria central bank under scrutiny over protests crackdown
...Activists have accused the Nigerian government of a crackdown on organisers of mass protests in Lagos and elsewhere against the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars)....
November 19, 2020
Wale Lawal
Nigeria’s problems cannot be solved by young people alone
...The writer is a researcher and the founder of The Republic: A Journal of Nigerian Affairs Nigeria’s recent youth protests against the rogue Special Anti-Robbery Squad police unit, have revealed as much...
October 29, 2020
The Big Read
Youth vs the gerontocrats: a potent political force tests Africa’s ageing rulers
...Their social media-driven mass movement #EndSARS, named for the notoriously violent Special Anti-Robbery Squad, has sometimes been compared with the Black Lives Matter protests in the US....
June 16, 2021
InterviewMusic
Nigerian singer Wizkid on finding positivity amid brutality
...At the weekend, the Nigerian government bowed to public pressure and disbanded the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. “Next election we show real power,” a jubilant Wizkid tweeted in response....
October 14, 2020
Person in the News
Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria’s leader remains aloof
...Young Nigerians have been protesting against the brutality of the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad police unit, under the #EndSARS hashtag, since the beginning of October....
October 23, 2020

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