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Babajide Lawson, a doctor at Reddington hospital, has said that six persons with varying gunshot wounds were treated at the Victoria Island branch of the hospital. He said the hospital was overwhelmed with ”mass casualty” from the Lekki shooting of October 20,2020. The doctor confirmed that gunshot victims from Lekki tollgate were brought to the
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The Nigerian Army has said with the benefit of hindsight, it would not have taken a different action if presented again with a scenario similar to the October 20 shooting incident at the Lekki Tollgate. The Nigerian Army made the assertion on Saturday at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims
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A political interest group, No Alternative To Buhari-Osinbajo 2019 (NATBO 2019), has described the Cable News Network (CNN) acclaimed investigative report on the #EndSARS protests at the Lekki Tollgate, Lagos, as lopsided and unbalanced. A statement issued by the group on Saturday through its National Coordinator, Vincent Uba, noted that there were lots of unanswered
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*organises interagency workshop on cybersecurity By Evelyn Usman The Nigerian Army has blamed the violent twist in the # EndSARS protest on what it described as an unethical use of the cyberspace, disclosing that pictures of soldiers circulating on social media as those alleged to have fired shots at protesters at the Lekki Toll gate,
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By Henry Ojelu A review of the protest video footage submitted to the Lagos EndSARS panel by the Lekki Concession Company, LCC shows that the video was unable to capture the shooting that took place at the Lekki Toll Gate. Vanguard had earlier reported that the panel Chairman Justice Okuwobi had directed that the three
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By Luminous Jannamike Some civil society organizations, CSOs, on Thursday, described the threat to sanction US-based media outlet, CNN, over its report on last month’s shooting of #EndSARS protesters in Lekki Lagos by suspected security operatives as “sentimental and laughable.” The CSOs, which spoke in separate interviews with Vanguard in Abuja, said there were better
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This is the concluding part of the piece which, yesterday, reminisced on the bad taste that #ENDSARS protests evoke. By Paul Amen Aifuwa FOR a fact, those who suffered the irredeemable anguish and are enmeshed in the loss due to the aftermath of the vexed events, were some of whose generations or descendants, are probably,
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The Nigerians in Diaspora Monitoring Group (NDMG) has faulted Cable News Network (CNN) over its report on the Lekki shooting in Lagos State, adding that the American television station is desperate to restore its already lost credibility. According to the Nigerians in Diaspora, CNN is under pressure to salvage whatever is left of its diminishing image and
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LEKKI SHOOTING: What Happened That Night? Also read: Lekki Shootings: Olowu of Kuta calls for probe of Amnesty International’s claim Vanguard News
The Olowu of Kuta in Osun, Oba Adekunle Oyelude has faulted claims by the Amnesty International that it tracked troops of the Nigerian Army to Lekki Toll Gate, where they allegedly shot at protesters on Oct. 20. Oyelude said this in a statement on Friday in Ibadan, calling for a probe into the claim. “Although
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