…Tension, bonfires, attempted arson rock Abakaliki, as Umahi declares curfew in Ebonyi …Security operatives gun down three persons in Rivers …Police stations burnt in Imo l2 feared dead, as protest turns violent in Enugu …Policeman killed, another injured in Lagos Police stations’ attacks …Three banks, council set ablaze …Protesters raze BRT buses at Oyingbo terminus, […]

Africa’s number leading eCommerce platform, Jumia in the early house of Thursday, October 22nd 2020, shut down its website to customers and sellers to mourn victims of protests against police brutality in Nigeria. In a statement displayed on the site after the shutdown, the company appealed to its stakeholders to join in the show of […]

Says Int’l community should sanction violators of human rights By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja A nongovernmental governmental organization, No Too Young To Run Movement, Wednesday, called on National Assembly to convene an emergency session on the killings of EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate on Tuesday evening. The movement in a statement signed by Cynthia Mbamalu, […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja A coalition of 100 civil society organisations has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Chief of Army Staff following the killing of unarmed protesters Tuesday evening at Lekki Tollgate. Besides, the group asked the president to immediately order suspension of the Nigerian Army’s newly launched Operation Crocodile […]

…as he seeks compensation for killed #EndSARS victims A Nigerian US based Comedian, Japhet Attah Egwumah popularly known as Japhman has decried over what he calls excess use of force by the federal government on Nigerian youths exercising their civil right over police brutality. He said the agitation alone coupled with government’s highhandedness have affected […]

The Bayelsa Government has constituted a judicial panel of inquiry as well as a special security and human rights committee in response to the demands of the #EndSARS protesters in the state. Gov. Douye Diri announced this in a statement on Wednesday by Mr Daniel Alabrah, his Chief Press Secretary, shortly after the 9th State […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Editor, The Nation Newspaper, Mr Adeniyi Adesina, has narrated how the headquarters of the newspaper was on Wednesday set ablaze by unknown armed men. According to Adesina, “Armed men on motorcycles invaded the headquarters of The Nation on Fatai Atere Way, Matori, Lagos on Wednesday afternoon. “In a commando-like manner, they kicked […]

At the 70th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the company held yesterday, Guinness Nigeria Plc has assured shareholders of a determined return to profitability after Covid19-induced disruptions caused an adverse decline in revenue at the financial year-end. The company’s audited results for the period ended 30 June, 2020 had showed a 21% reduction in revenue […]

    By Peter Egwuatu   The Nigerian stock market could not sustain the bullish performance recorded earlier in the week as the market, yesterday, plunged by 0.75 percent following the curfew announced by the Lagos State as a result of the protest by Nigerian youths against police brutality, tagged #EndSARS. Market analysts have expressed […]

…Seeks urgent inquiry into incident, police reform By Michael Eboh The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, yesterday, condemned the shooting of unarmed protesters at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, describing the use of brute force against individuals exercising their rights to dissent as unacceptable. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, President/Chairman of Council of the […]

As the Nigerian economy continues to dwindle, the country has actually experienced rapid growth as regards to numbers of unemployed youths roaming the streets. A young Anambra born Philanthropist & Entrepreneur by name Engr. Henry Ekene Okpala (Oheno Ventures Multi Links Company) had mapped out plans to render free professional training to 200 youths on […]

By Adeola Badru The Soun of Ogbomosoland, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, has denied the content of a letter purportedly authorised by him, which rejected the financial contribution of the Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State in the planned renovation of the monarch’s palace vandalised by hoodlums during the #EndSARS protest on October 10. The […]

By Godknows Igali In keeping with the last wishes of globally acclaimed literary giant, Professor John Pepper Clark who passed on during the night of Tuesday, 13th October, 2020, his remains were in a rather histrionic manner, belying his live-time calling of expressionism, taken to his ancestral home of Kiagbodo town in Burutu Local Government […]

…says candidates qualified to be elected By Victor Arjihromanus The African Bar Association, AFBA,  has dismissed reports that some African judges didn’t have the requirements needed to be elected into the International Criminal Court, ICC,  at the Hague, as misleading. It also said it was particularly disturbed by what was described as the misinterpretation of […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke Chinese Multinational technology company, Huawei Technologies limited has donated standard IT equipment and newly renovated the school building of Al-Walidyn Charitable School in Pantami community, Gombe state, North Eastern Nigeria. The donation was done in partnership with the Advocacy for Human Value Foundation and  Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. The […]