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Ex-deputy national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has called for the immediate dismantling of tollgates at Lekki and Ikoyi where #EndSARS protesters were shot at Tuesday last week, while also calling for scrapping of the privately-owned AlphaBeta and Lekki Concession Company (LCC). Chief George made the call at a press conference […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Air Force (NAF) authority says it has arrested its personnel seen in a viral video flogging curfew defaulters in Ilesha, Osun state, Nigeria. The video which made rounds on social media on Tuesday, October 27, showed the curfew defaulters inside muddy water while being flogged by the security agents. In a statement released on […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Finance, Dr. (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been elected as the new Director General of the World Trade Organization. She is the first female and first African Director General of the WTO. In a keenly contested election, Okonjo-Iweala beat her rival, South Korean Yoo Myung hee, with a wide margin. She polled 104 votes […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has renewed the appointment of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for a second term in office. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Tuesday. President Buhari, in a letter to […]
Continue ReadingThe 81 Division of the Nigerian Army (NA) has denied the allegation that soldiers opened fire on #ENDSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza on Tuesday, October 20. In a statement released by the Acting Director Army Public Relations (ADPR), Major Osoba Olaniyi, the Division confirmed the involvement of soldiers in restoring order in Lagos […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have dismissed one of its officers, Corps Assistant Illiya Ibrahim of the Gwagwalada Division Abuja, for partaking in the looting of Covid-19 palliatives discovered in a warehouse in Gwagwalada, Abuja. On Monday, a mob stormed the warehouse and carted away the palliatives. A video that made the rounds […]
Continue ReadingA self-acclaimed Nigerian Pastor identified as Sunday Edino has been arrested by officers of the Kogi State Police Command for allegedly looting medical equipments reportedly worth millions in naira. The Pastor was arrested on Monday October 26, following a manhunt reportedly led by the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Ayuba Ede. Upon being interrogated following […]
Continue ReadingMinister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume has revealed why the report of the 2014 constitutional conference cannot be used in restructuring the country. Speaking at a presidential stakeholders meeting held at the Government House in Makurdi on Monday October 26, the Minister explained why the report cannot be relied upon in response […]
Continue Reading25-year-old automobile mechanic, Albert Olaposi, allegedly beheaded his five-year-old daughter, Mercy, in Gbongan, Osun State, Nigeria, on Monday. Before her death, Mercy was said to be living with her paternal grandmother in the Oke Oje area of Gbongan, while her parents live in another area of the town. However, on Monday morning, Olaposi reportedly visited […]
Continue ReadingNigerian youths have raised alarm after the youth representatives on the Lagos Judicial Panel of enquiry on police brutality were asked to sign an oath of secrecy. In response to the demands of End SARS protests, the Lagos state government set up the Lagos judicial panel of enquiry on police brutality and extra-judicial killings and invited two Nigerian […]
Continue ReadingAmarjeet Sada became known as the world’s youngest serial killer after he killed for the first time at age 7 and continued killing afterwards. He had allegedly killed three people by the age of eight, two of whom were related to him. The young boy from the Begusaray district in Bihar, India was born in 1998. […]
Continue ReadingSome residents of Abuja who stormed a warehouse in the Gwagwalada Area council in the Federal Capital Territory on Monday October 26, to cart away COVID19 palliatives, said they only came there to ”possess their possessions.” The residents who trooped out in their numbers carted away the food items that were labelled COVID19 palliatives. While […]
Continue ReadingPolice has arrested a Nigerian woman, Oge Florence for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, also a Nigerian, to death during a heated argument in India. It was gathered that the incident happened on Sunday, October 25, at their home in New Delhi. The victim has been identified as Obinna from Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area of […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and activist, Femi Falana’s son, Folarin Falana aka Falz, has reacted to the discovery of a secret camera at the Lekki Toll-Gate by the Minister for Works & Housing Babatunde Fashola describing it as ‘fuckery’. Fashola joined the people of Lagos to commiserate the lives loss at the Lekki Toll-Gate last week Tuesday […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has sanctioned some major broadcast stations for their coverage of the End SARS protests. They are, African Independent Television (AIT), Channels Television and Arise News,. The media houses have been fined around N3 million each, according to Daily Post. The organizations were also accused of using unverified social media photos and videos of […]
Continue ReadingA 10-year-old old boy has been rescued in in Ikot Udota, Eket, Akwa Ibom State by the Child’s and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) after he was allegedly brutalised and shackled by his father and stepmother. According to the head of the NGO, Sam Ikpe Utauma, the victim, Ekemini was constantly tortured, starved and subjected to various inhuman […]
Continue ReadingNational Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), being piloted by a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), and other statesmen, has, in a resolution, demanded that Nigeria should be renegotiated. Demanding that whoever authorised the deployment of troops to face the #EndSARS protesting youths should be court-marshalled for murder, the organisation said the government should […]
Continue ReadingSenior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Pastor Sam Adeyemi has addressed Nigerians on the outcome of the #EndSARS protest which has taken several turns in the last few days. In tweets he shared, Pastor Adeyemi stated that those who want to blame the youths for massive destruction of properties in Lagos and other cities know […]
Continue ReadingFounder and Senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has defined the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) as ‘State-Aided Robbery Squad’. In his Sunday sermon, the cleric claimed that “although the Special Anti-Robbery Squad has been disbanded, the spirit of SARS continues to prowl unchecked.” Pastor […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian Army Colonel, SB Onifade, who was abducted along Kaduna-Abuja Highway, has been reportedly killed by his abductors after collecting N10million ransom from his friends and family. Col. Onifade, a consultant gynaecologist, was abducted near Olam Farms area of the highway while traveling on September 27, 2020. Sources who confirmed the development to Daily […]
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