By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti Commercial and sundry activities were paralyzed in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Friday as youths protesting for an end to Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) and police brutality in the country, occupied the major streets for several hours. The #EndSARS protesters who converged at the popular Fajuyi Park in the state …
Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has signed the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Bill into law. With the signing, Kwara has exited the club of 19 states widely criticised for not domesticating the key human rights law. Kwara was one of the 19 states yet to domesticate the law, which addresses domestic violence and other sociocultural and …
A 48-year-old herbalist, Toyin Dada, on Friday appeared in an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State for allegedly ”planting” charms in a civil servant’s house. The police charged Dada with two counts of felony and breach of peace. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Zedekiah Orogbemi, told the court that the defendant on Sept. 28 around …
Lauretta Onochie Youth Party has rejected the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as the National Commissioner representing South-South in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, made by President Muhammadu Buhari. The party in a statement on Friday said the Nigeria Constitution is clear on the requirements for qualification for appointment as an INEC National Commissioner. Pointing out …
A photographer described his encounter with the armed thugs who disrupted Thursday’s #ENDSARS protest, in Alausa, Lagos state. He took to Twitter on his handle @danscottvisual to narrate his brief but scary encounter. He said: “I had just arrived at the #EndSWAT #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality Peaceful Protest @ Alausa, barely 10minutes before the Hooligans arrived. ALSO …
By Henry Umoru THE Senate has taken a swipe at the National Health Issuance Scheme (NHIS) over N122 billion fixed in an unnamed commercial bank in the country without the approval of Auditor General of the Federation. The query was raised today by the Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo South led Senate Committee …
Gov Diri By Samuel Oyadongha, The Ebedaowei of Kabowei kingdom, HRH Aserifa Hope Torru has called on Bayelsa State government to activate the State Emergency Management Agency to provide relief materials for flood displaced victims in his domain. He said though flooding in the five Kabowei communities of Adagbabiri, Trofani, Asamabiri, Ekpereware and Elemebiri is an …
…..Pro-Biafra group seeks another round of inquiry By Dennis Agbo MOVEMENT for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has described as false the tales making the rounds that former Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state was responsible for the killings and dumping of some suspected members of the group into Ezu river, a …
Senate President Lawan By Henry Umoru ABUJA – PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has called on the government of Pakistan to assist Nigeria in the capacity building in the area of Defence Industry. Lawan spoke yesterday in Abuja when he received in audience a delegation of the Senate of Pakistan which visited him to seek …
By Dirisu Yakubu BUJA- The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has ratified the selection of Mr. Sunday Bisi as the acting chairman of its Osun state chapter. In a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said the ratification “is made pursuant to Section 47(6) of the PDP Constitution …
Perez Brisibe, Ughelli A week after a policeman and unidentified civilians were killed during the violent END SARS protest in Ughelli, Delta State, the protesters have returned to the streets in solidarity with other protesters across the country. The protesters who started their walk from the Otovwodo axis of Ughelli, took their protest through the Ughelli main …
ENDSARS protesters mimicking police brutality in Port Harcourt Rivers State, Tuesday. PHOTO: Nwankpa Chijioke. Prof. Oyesoji Aremu, a Counselling and Criminal Justice expert from the University of Ibadan, says that to address holistically, issues raised by Nigerian youths, recruitment policies of the police should be based on University and Polytechnic qualifications. Aremu, who made the suggestion in an interview with …
President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Mr Chidi Ilogebe, has urged Federal and States Governments to waive school fees in tertiary institutions as a palliative to students. Ilogebe made the request while speaking with Newsmen on national issues affecting Nigerian students in Enugu on Friday. “It is our earnest desire that students …
#EndSARS protest on-going in the front of Punch Newspapers office at Magboro, Lagos Ibadan expressway with both sides of the expressway blocked. Videos and photos by Lamidi Bamidele ALSO READ: Politicising #EndSARS protests irresponsible — Lagos APC to PDP https://www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/WhatsApp-Video-2020-10-16-at-10.41.27-1.mp4 https://www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/WhatsApp-Video-2020-10-16-at-11.14.53-1.mp4 Vanguard The post PHOTOS: #EndSARS protests cause gridlock at Magboro appeared first on Vanguard News.
An Ogudu Magistrate’s Court on Friday ordered that a 25-year-old man, Yusuf Nasiru, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter, be remanded in a correctional centre, pending legal advice. The defendant, who lives at Olowolagba Street, Mile 12, Lagos, is charged with two counts of sexual assault and defilement. Magistrate O.A Ajayi, who did not …
..Raises alarm over plans to unleash mayhem in some LGAs By Olasunkanmi Akoni All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos has accused the opposition party in the state, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of sponsoring reports in the social media capable of causing further crisis in the state even as it warned against politicizing #EndSARS protests. Publicity Secretary of …
#EndSARS protest on-going in the front of Punch Newspapers office at Magboro, Lagos Ibadan expressway with both sides of the expressway blocked. Videos and photos by Lamidi Bamidele ALSO READ: Politicising #EndSARS protests irresponsible — Lagos APC to PDP https://www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/WhatsApp-Video-2020-10-16-at-10.41.27-1.mp4 https://www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/WhatsApp-Video-2020-10-16-at-11.14.53-1.mp4 Vanguard The post PHOTOS: #EndSARS protests causes gridlock at Magboro appeared first on Vanguard News.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state Perez Brisibe, Ughelli Delta State Government has described claims by a rights activist and applicant in a suit before a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba that locals from some rural communities in the state were killed by armed Fulani herdsmen with tacit support from the state government as “speculative …
I am 60 years old today! I give thanks to the Lord for He has been good to me. As is usually the case with me on my birthdays I shall spend most of the day quietly with a few members of my family, loved ones and household and, for the better part of the …
File photo of gunmen By Francis Sadhere Suspected armed robbers on Thursday night gunned down a mobile police officer believed to be attached to a Mobile Squadron outfit of the Warri Area Command. According to eyewitnesses living around the Petrol Station in Etuwewe, in Warri South Local Government area where the mobile policeman was killed, the …
