Author: Olabanji Ayoola

Says Protests Well-Intentioned But Hijacked Obasanjo Commends President Over Speech Jobs, Good Economy Critical To Checking Youth Restiveness – Ex-Leaders Opposition Trying To Use Protests To Return To Power, Says Presidency Culpable SARS Officials Will Be Punished – Police Commission Barely 24 hours after presiding over a National Security Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, […]

Residents of Kano metropolis are in fears over a possible resurgence of the violence that greeted the #EndSARS protests in the state on Tuesday. Banks and traders did not open on Friday as many streets were deserted. Kano youths on Tuesday joined the nationwide #EndSARS protests. But hoodlums hijacked the demonstration, vandalising grandiose malls and […]

Some hoodlums, on Friday, broke into a national silo located at the Osun Ankara, Irojo area of Ilesa, Osun State, and carted away food items. The hoodlums also stormed warehouses on the premises of Cocoa Processing Industry, Ede, and looted food items donated to the Osun Food and Relief Committee by the private sector Coalition […]

Following violence that trailed the #EndSARS protests, the Lagos State Government and the state police command have begun to count their losses. Hoodlums who took advantage of the protests had carried out wanton destruction of government and private properties, setting them on fire while carrying out acts of looting. On Friday, the state government said 80 Bus […]

Members of the House of Repre-sentatives from the South-West have warned Nigerians from other geopolitical zones against turning the South-West, especially Lagos State, into a battleground over the ongoing #EndSARS protests, which have been allegedly hijacked by hoodlums. The South-West caucus, at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, condemned the attacks on places of Yoruba heritage, […]

Retired generals condemn shootings, probe begins Monday Lagos, others warn hoodlums as looting, arson continue The United States Government may impose a visa restriction on persons found culpable in the shooting of unarmed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos on Tuesday. This is just as the judicial panel set up by the Lagos State […]

The Osun Food and Relief Committee on COVID-19 on Friday said the looted items at a warehouse in Ede town were not hoarded, but rather kept for flag-off of official distribution. Alhaji Bayo Jimoh, Secretary to the committee, in a statement in Osogbo, said that the looted items were donated to the committee as palliatives […]

Gov.ernor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has lifted the 24 – hour indefinite curfew he imposed on the state, following the return of peace to Akure, the state capital. Mr Donald Ojogo, Commissioner for Information and Orientation, said on Friday in Akure, that the decision is with effect from Saturday. Akeredolu imposed the curfew on […]

… commend Buhari on steps taken so far Former Nigerian heads of state and presidents were on Friday unanimous in their view that generation of employment and growing the economy, including through direct foreign investments, were critical to checking youth restiveness. This was part of their conclusions at the end of an emergency consultation on […]

President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t mention anything about the shooting of #EndSARS protesters in Lekki on Tuesday night during a nationwide broadcast yesterday because it would be “premature and presumptuous.” Many Nigerians have carpeted Buhari for not mentioning the shootings or empathising with the victims during the much-awaited presidential broadcast, describing the omission as deliberate and […]