The Police Command in Ebonyi has confirmed Thursday’s attack on Uburu Police Station in Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state by suspected hoodlums. The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi, Mr Philip Maku, said suspected hoodlums attacked some police officers on duty, after which they razed the station down. According to him, some of the …

Calls for total respect for the rights of peaceful protesters By Chioma Obinna & Gabriel Olawale Mothers And Marginalised Advocacy Centre, MAMA Centre, on Thursday expressed shock and greater disappointment over the alleged footages showing aggrieved citizens whopping Covid-19 palliatives illegally diverted and stocked in secluded warehouses across the country. MAMA Centre claimed that while …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed indefinitely, the outstanding 15 bye-elections earlier scheduled to hold on Oct 31. The commission made the disclosure in a statement issued by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, in Abuja after INEC’s meeting held on Thursday. He cited the security …

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qlhIzd7dk?rel=0] VIDEO: One of the EndSARS protesters that were shot at the lekki Tollgate, speaks Also read: #EndSARS: Nigerians react as Buhari ignores Lekki Tollgate shooting in his nationwide broadcast Vanguard News The post VIDEO: One of the EndSARS protesters that were shot at the lekki Tollgate, speaks appeared first on Vanguard News.

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has warned  those who hijacked and misdirected the  genuine and well-intended protest against the excesses of some members of the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).noting that he is pained that innocent lives have been lost . Buhari  made this known during his Natoinwide broadcast on Thursday noting that “I acknowledged the …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has condoled with victims of shootings which occurred in Lekki, Lagos. The Vice President also expressed grief over loss lives in Lagos and other parts of the country as a result of the #ENDSARS protests. #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate were attacked with guns on Oct. 20. Osinbajo, in a …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State Edo Government has reviewed the 24-hour curfew earlier imposed in the state on Monday, to check hijack of the #ENDSARS protests by hoodlums. A statement by Mr Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser on Media and Communications Strategy to Gov. Godwin Obaseki announced this in a statement on Thursday in Benin. …

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Joint Nigeria Crisis Action Committee, JN-CAC, and Nigeria Mourns, Thursday, condemned attacks and killings of unarmed and peaceful protesters on Tuesday night at Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos. This was contained in a statement signed by the conveners, Alu Azege, Abiodun Baiyewu, Benson Olugbuo, Chidi Odinkalu, Gloria Ballason, and Leslie …

EndSars Protester continue at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos.Photo Akeem Salau A coalition of women groups, Mothers United and Mobilised (MUM), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute a transparent panel of inquiry into alleged shooting of unarmed EndSARS protesters in Lekki on Tuesday. The coalition made the call in a statement issued on …

A former Lagos lawmaker, Mr Olusegun Olulade, has urged youths in the state to come together to protect and rebuild Lagos after the mindless destruction of lives and property by hoodlums under the guise of #EndSARS protest. Olulade, who represented Epe Constituency II between 2011 and 2019 in Lagos House of Assembly, made the appeal …

A United States representative, Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbühl, has met with Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo on the ongoing violence in Nigeria as a result of the agitations over police brutality. The meeting was part of a previously scheduled delegation, which included Assistant Secretary Robert Destro and Assistant Secretary Denise Natali, to raise U.S. concerns …

By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has expressed disappointment that there was nothing knew in the speech presented to Nigerians on Thursday evening by President Muhammadu Buhari besides what he had been saying since the #EndSARS protest by Nigerian youths started. National Chairman of PANDEF, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, retd, who spoke …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has listed the things his government had achieved, their plans for the welfare of Nigerians and security, but said nothing about the Lekki Tollgate killing of peaceful #EndSARS protesters by soldiers in Lagos on Tuesday. The President made the enumeration during his much-anticipated address, following the killings of protesters, the …

By Dapo Akinrefon Chairman, Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Akin Ricketts, yesterday, condemned the burning of the agency’s headquarters in Marina, Lagos State by hoodlums, allegedly in the name of EndSARS protesters. The NPA headquarters was set on fire by #EndSARS protesters on Wednesday. It was reported that the hoodlums stormed the …

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE federal government has disowned the COVID-19 palliatives discovered in a Lagos warehouse, saying the items were not from it. Rather,the government said the inscriptions seen on the back of the items indicated that they were donated by a coalition of some non-governmental organisations. READ ALSO‘What was that’? ― Nigerians react to President …

President Muhammadu Buhari Reactions have trailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast on Thursday night which was aimed at addressing the ongoing #EndSARS protest that has led to the loss of lives and destruction of properties in the country. Most Nigerians condemned the president’s speech while at the same time questioning him for keeping mum over the …

President Muhammadu Buhari The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the long-awaited address by President Muhammadu Buhari on the protests rocking the nation, as disappointing and completely disconnected from the realities of the tragic occurrences in our country in the last two weeks. Disclosing this in a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, the …

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai. By Ibrahim HassanWuyo The Federal High Court has dismissed the fundamental human rights case instituted by Chidi Odinkalu against the Kaduna State Government and ordered the applicant to pay N500,000 to each of the four respondents. The respondents are the Director of Public Prosecution, Kaduna State, the Governor of Kaduna …

Shehu Sani By Nwafor Sunday Reactions have started pouring in, minutes after President Muhammadu Buhari addressed Nigerians. Shehu Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the last Senate, Thursday reacted to Buhari’s speech, and in a poetic tone opined: “You asked for speech, you got the speech and now you are speechless.” READ …

Fr. Mbaka By Dennis Agbo Contrary to a viral video suggesting that the Catholic Adoration Ground Enugu, superintended  by Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka was razed by protesting youths, the church said it’s not true. Mbaka’s spokesman, Mr. Maximus Ugwoke who spoke with Vanguard said the story and video making the rounds were false and should be …