Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, has said nothing will stop him from telling his kids and the next generation about the Lekki shootings of unarmed protesters. On 20 October, 2020, a day that would later be termed ‘Black Tuesday’, a team of military personnel invaded Lekki Tollgate, venue of the EndSars protests and shot at the protesters. Before the …
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The management of the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) yesterday informed the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and the Lekki Tollgate incident that the footage of the tragic incident that occurred on October 20 this year at the tollgate, is available. A representative of the company, Gbolahan Agboluwaje told the eight-member panel …
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Events of the past few weeks have been tumultuous. Unfortunate things have happened. Lives have been lost. Property damaged. Essential institutions such as the police force and army are under justifiable scrutiny. Protests call for needed reform. Taking advantage of the situation, less noble actors have pressed forward, either to steal the hard-earned property of others or to prosecute selfish …
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Versatile highlife and gospel musician, Akin Fasipe, otherwise known as Akinslavia, has said that Nigerian government needs to live up to its billings after its inefficiencies were exposed by the EndSars protests. The lead vocalist of Harkyn and De Gang Band reiterated that the protests, which lasted about three weeks with lives and monuments lost is a wake up call …
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On Monday, 26 October, 2020 the Akotogbo Traditional Royal Council led the Regent Of Akotogbo Kingdom, High Chief Iwalewa Emoruwa, paid a solidarity visit to the Jegun Of Idepe Okitipupa, HRM, Oba Michael Adetoye Obatuga over the mayhem that was unleashed on the town on Thursday 22 October, 2020. The royal team condemned the wanton destructions of government and private …
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Mrs Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, Director- General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has condemned the attack on its Kaduna state office. The NAFDAC boss condemned the attack during a visit to the agency’s office on Monday. She said that the drugs and other products are taken away were fake and counterfeit and would affect the lives …
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The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined Channels Television, AIT and Arise TV N3 million each over their “unprofessional coverage” of the EndSARS protests and the crisis that followed it. Acting Director-General of NBC Prof Armstrong Idachaba announced the sanction at a press conference in Abuja. He said that if the commission escalates the violations that emanated from the misuse …
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Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, Monday cited the lopsided appointments into the President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2014 National Conference (CONFAB) as one of the probable reasons the report has been dumped. He observed that the appointments into the Conference were such that delegates from the south were more in number than those from the north which …
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The rabbit hole of uncertainty, confusion and fear that pupils and their parents fell into in the dying days of March when the country was in lockdown was best captured in a Saturday Sun feature of May 16, titled, “COVID-19: Troubles of e-Learning.” The story catalogues the challenges that erupted out of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the fears …
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Yusuf Muhammed An attempt to burn down Iju Police station on 24 October, 2020 was foiled as youths and vigilante groups teamed up with the Nigeria Police and some members of Nigeria hunters association. According to our correspondent who was at the station, hoodlums numbering over 50 stormed the station with kegs of petrol and other dangerous weapons to set …
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