By Azuka Onwuka The looting, arson and killings that occurred in Nigeria last week as a reaction to the shooting of the peaceful #EndSARS protesters in Lekki area of Lagos were shocking, disgraceful and demoralising. Most importantly, they were avoidable. If Nigeria had a purposeful and proactive leader, they would never have happened. Anybody who […]
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Suspected hoodlums, on Monday, attacked the palace of Akire of Ikire, Oba Olatunde Falabi, in Osun State and held the monarch hostage. He was later ferried to safety by a team of security men, who dislodged the hoodlums. The Chairman, Irewole Local Government Area, Ikire, Remilekun Abbas, blamed the incident on the kingship tussle in […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU, has said it has yet to call off its ongoing strike because it is waiting for the government to conduct an integrity test on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution. The UTAS is the payment platform created by ASUU in place of government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. […]
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Three women were feared to have been trampled to death during the looting of a massive palliative warehouse in Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Some who were suffocating were helped out of the building and being assisted with sachets of water. Some of the hoodlums climbed fences from adjacent compounds near WAEC […]
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Residents of Osun State have deserted major streets in different towns as banks and businesses, remained closed on Monday, in compliance to the curfew imposed by the state government on Saturday. Joint security personnel were enforcing the curfew imposed on the state as roads were deserted, vehicular and human movements were also affected and restricted […]
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Suspected hoodlums have looted the Agricultural Development Project (ADP) fertiliser warehouse in Kogi State. The hoodlums were said to have overpowered the security-men attached to the warehouse in the Felele area, Lokoja, carting away unspecified bags of fertilisers. Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo, in a statement on Monday attributed the development to the […]
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Governor Yahaya Bello The Sun Newspaper Correspondent in Kogi State, Emmanuel Adeyemi, has been shot. Adeyemi, who was on his way to the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre in Lokoja was shot a stone throw from the gate of the secretariat. An unidentified person, who was reportedly hit by a stray bullet around […]
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Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai The top hierarchy of the Nigerian Army, including the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, General Officers Commanding (GOC) of the Divisions and Operation Commanders, are brainstorming on the threat to national security occasioned by the #EndSARS protests. Shortly before the meeting, which […]
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Hoodlums have gained access into the palliative warehouse in Gwagwalada near the LEA Secretariat. Numbering hundreds, they looted the COVID-19 palliatives kept in the area after confronting security operatives who fired teargas into the air. The hoodlums were seen stealing food items, sewing machines and motorcycles, among other things. The incident is less than 24 […]
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Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, has described a video that has gone viral, giving quit notice to the Igbo people to leave Yorubaland, as senseless and one capable of causing destabilisation in the country. A group, Young Yoruba for Freedom, in a viral video had told the people of Igbo extraction residing in the […]
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