The Presidency has said Amnesty International does not run the country and was wrong in its report on the movement of military men from the barracks to Lekki Tollgate, where peaceful #EndSARS protesters were shot at on Tuesday, October 20.

…At 6:29pm local time in Lagos, two military vehicles were filmed leaving Bonny Camp …Later footage showed four vehicles with flash lights in a convoy, and they appeared to be vehicles used by the Nigerian military and police. …Same vehicles head east along Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, in the direction of the Lekki Toll Gate. …Vehicles […]

SOME roads in Lagos  State are gradually being taken over by hoodlums, who pretend to be controlling traffic, owing to the absence of policemen. Sadly, the hoodlums end up harassing and extorting motorists, especially at night.

Commends maturity exhibited by youths in Abia By Gabriel Ewepu THE Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr Uchechukwu Ogah, urged youths to engage government in constructive dialogue while making their demands known. Ogah made the appeal while at a ‘Special Stakeholders Town-Hall Meeting’ held in Umuahia, Abia State, where he commended maturity […]

Following the controversies, claims and counter-claims that have been trailing the shooting at peaceful #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos, on Tuesday, October 20, Amnesty International has released a timeline on what many have termed “Black Tuesday.”

Dayo Johnson – Akure The Deji of Akureland, in Ondo State, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi, has thrown his weight behind the arrest and prosecution the hijackers of the #EndSARS protests who wreaked incalculable havoc across the country. Oba Aladelusi in a statement in Akure by his Chief Press Secretary, Michael Adeyeye frowned at unwarranted killing, maiming […]

  By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu will react later today to the claims by Nigerian Army that the state government invited soldiers to restore sanity at Lekki Toll Gate. The Nigerian Army, on a statement Tuesday night, said that the decision to deploy its men to Lekki Tollgate on October 20, […]

By Onozure Dania – Lagos A legal practitioner, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has urged the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to compel President Muhammadu Buhari, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, and 10 others to “immediately” pay N10billion to victims of the October 20 shootings at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos. Ogungbeje also […]

By Nwafor Sunday The Nigerian Police Force has come under attack for saying the force ‘is not a collection of angels’. On its verified twitter handle, the force public relations department stated conspicuously that they are not a collection of angels, noting that they are doing their best to serve Nigerians better. Irked with the […]

A woman who identified herself in a video released last weekend as the mother of one Anthony Okechukwu,  who supposedly died from a stray bullet fired by Nigerian soldiers at the #EndSARS protest at the Lekki Tollgate last Tuesday, is not his mother but his aunt. The video, which was shot in a bus stop […]

By Boluwaji Obahopo, Omeiza Ajayi, Emma Una, Luminous Jannamike & Ike Uchechukwu Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, was ,like a war zone Sunday night through yesterday, as hoodlums seeking COVID-19 palliatives clashed with security operatives and invaded the state’s Agricultural Development Project, ADP, and private warehouses, carting away fertilizers and rice. In the clash, […]

…Lagos Assembly sets up Ad-hoc c’ttee on damages …Fashola illegally tampered with exhibits, says Adegboruwa …As Bode George calls for dismantling of Lekki toll-gates By Ebunoluwa Sessou & Gabriel Olawale, with agency reports THE Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and the Lekki Tollgate Incident, yesterday, urged victims […]

….Says no bloodstains at scene By Olasunkanmi Akoni GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, yesterday, insisted that there were only two recorded deaths and no bloodstain at the scene of the Lekki Toll Gate shooting. Several reports stated that no fewer than 30 protesters died as a result of the shooting which had generated public […]

As police brutality increased number of disabled persons Gabriel Ewepu CITIZENS with disabilities under the auspices of Centre for Citizens with Disabilities, CCD, Monday, demanded inclusion in the Panel of Inquiry currently being set up by State governments on the activities of the dissolved Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, F-SARS. This was contained in a statement […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti The Ekiti State Police Command has paraded two minors and four other persons in connection with the alleged arson attack on three police stations and other properties in the state. Two Divisional Police Stations and the Area Command office in Ikere Ekiti was last week set on fire by some […]