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By Henry Ojelu Monday Ubani is a former 2nd Vice-President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. In this interview, he speaks on the recent utterances by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minster of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN against the EndSARS protests and how the statements have been at variance with FG’s avowed commitment to
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Urges FG security agencies to deal with civilians with utmost civility By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki has expressed sadness over the aftermath of #ENDSARS protests, which she said started as a peaceful demonstration. While noting that the youths have a fundamental right to peaceful protests as enshrined
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By Rotimi Fasan Following last week’s commentary where I spoke about the absence of the Police from our communities and the kind of reform the Police needs going forward, I think it’s only fair that I report what has since happened. I made yet another trip along the same route I talked about last week.
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By Gabriel Ewepu and Alice Ekpang – Abuja Following the recent twist on the #EndSARS protest, 32 CSOs, Tuesday, accused the government of oppression, abuse of human rights, and intimidation of #EndSARS promoters and activists. This was contained in a statement signed by leaders of 32 CSOs which include; Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD);
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Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, declared in Ikeja on Tuesday that the October #EndSARS protests devastated the Lagos State economy. Obasa made this known when Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu presented the state’s 2021 budget to the Assembly. Lagos State plans to spend N1,155,022,413,005 in the 2021 budget entitled: “Budget Of Rekindled
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By Victor Ahiuma-Young Nigeria Employers Consultative Association , NECA, has said Organised Private Sector, OPS lost over 5 trillion to #EndSARS protest. At briefing in Lagos, the association said without serious government assistance, many businesses would go under. READ ALSO: #EndSARS: This is not religious war, not ethnicity biased ― CAN youth wing Details later:
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…Asks victims to submit complaints on or before November 19 The Administrative Panel of Inquiry constituted by the Enugu State government to look into the recent loss of lives and other grievous bodily injuries to private citizens and security personnel, resulting from the hijack by miscreants of the otherwise peaceful #ENDSARS protests, and recommend compensation
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By Ibrahim HassanWuyo The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has accused Amnesty International of attempts to cause disaffection between the Nigerian government and citizens. CNG, in a letter addressed to the Amnesty International ,said Amnesty International’s intervention, exclamations and actions on issues in Nigeria ought not be drawn to discountenance the effort of government to
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By Victoria Ojeme Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has blamed the government’s inability to invest in youth development as a remote cause of the ongoing #ENDSARS protest across Nigeria. Obasanjo was president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. He oversaw his country’s first democratic handover of power and administrative reforms that accelerated economic growth. He
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