There was no vital omission in President Muhammadu Buhari’s address to Nigerians on Thursday, Femi Adesina, has said. Mr Adesina, a media adviser to the president, in an interview with Channels Television on Friday night, argued that the much criticised speech adequately met Nigerians’ demands. He argued that Mr Buhari deliberately refused to make comments […]
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President Buhari presents the 2021 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly. [PHOTO CREDIT: @profosinbajo] The troubled sector receives a meagre 5.6 per cent of the total budget, much below the recommended benchmark. Despite the challenges faced by Nigeria’s education sector and calls for the government to increase funding to the sector, President Muhammadu Buhari is […]
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Osun State Government has reimposed an indefinite curfew in response to the looting that has continued unabated in the state. The governor, Gboyega Oyetola, who announced this in a broadcast said the curfew would start from 3 p.m. on Saturday. He said the curfew was necessary to curb the looting of warehouses across the state. […]
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Lekki protesters before the shootings Pan-Yoruba political organisation, Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Saturday, condemned the ongoing destruction of properties and looting by hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSARS protests in the country. The organisations also condemned the shootings of protesters at the Lekki toll gate area of Lagos State by soldiers. The leader of Afenifere, […]
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Police officers patrolling Lagos State Police officers on Friday and Saturday patrolled Lagos State in a bid to restore order. Earlier, barricades and police checkpoints were seen on the streets of Lagos after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu imposed a curfew on the state after days of violent unrest. The governor visited burnt police stations and razed […]
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Traders at the UTC market, Area 10, Garki, Abuja and residents of the area cowered in fear on Saturday as security operatives battled hoodlums attempting to loot a warehouse in the vicinity. Policemen and other security personnel fired gunshots and tear gas to deter hoodlums who stormed a warehouse with COVID-19 palliatives early Saturday morning. […]
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Protesters march at Alausa, the Lagos State Secretariat, in Lagos on October 20, 2020, after Governor Babajide Sanwo Olu, declared 24-hour curfew in Nigeria’s economic hub Lagos as violence flared in widespread protests that have rocked cities across the country. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi / AFP) By Joel Popoola That the simmering resentment of Nigeria’s […]
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Governor Kayode Fayemi Ekiti State government, raised an alarm on Saturday that huge quantities of poisonous items, mistaken for food yet to be distributed as Covid-19 palliatives, were looted in warehouses in Ado-Ekiti on Friday… Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Akin Omole, said in a statement in Ado Ekiti that raising the alarm […]
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The New Heaven Police Station in Enugu State has been discovered to be reeking with filthy and unhygienic cells intentionally designed to force suspects or their families to pay any amount as gratification to avoid entering there. This was revealed during a question and answer session at a one-day “Capacity Building Training Workshop for Senior […]
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Grim data highlighted the struggle for authorities around the world to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control Saturday, as the US reported 80,000 infections in a single day, France extended a curfew to two-thirds of citizens and Germany’s death toll passed 10,000. The World Health Organization, WHO, had earlier warned of an “exponential” rise in […]
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