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Why we didn’t distribute looted COVID-19 palliatives, Osun food committee

Posted by admin COVID-19, Headlines, Health, Osun, State News Sunday, October 25th, 2020

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 […]

Craziness: Soldiers beat medical doctor, ordered him to swim in filthy gutter at gunpoint

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Army, Delta, Headlines, State News Saturday, October 24th, 2020

Soldiers suspected to be attached to the 3 Battalion Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State, on Saturday allegedly brutalised a medical doctor and ordered him to swim and bathe inside a gutter full of dirty water. The soldiers, who were said to be enforcing the state government’s curfew, SaharaReporters gathered, confronted the medical doctor, Raphael Onyemekehia, […]

Police, hoodlums in heavy shootout in Ikeja; Computer Village rescued

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, October 24th, 2020

By Kazeem Ugbodaga Ikeja under the bridge boiled on Friday as police engaged hoodlums in heavy gun-battle. The fallout of the #EndSARS protest has continued to lead to wanton violence and looting across different parts of Lagos State. The hoodlums who came out in large number on Friday morning took over the road leading to […]

Nigerians, don’t give up – Alicia Keys

Posted by admin #EndSars, Headlines Saturday, October 24th, 2020

Alicia Keys has urged Nigerians not to cease making effort in their quest to knock out injustice and other systems designed to oppress them. The award-winning artiste sent the strong motivational message to Nigerians after widespread reports of brutality and extrajudicial killings before and during protests against bad governance and poor policing system in Nigeria. […]

The address President Buhari could have given, by Chimamanda Adichie

Posted by admin Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Headlines Saturday, October 24th, 2020

Fellow Nigerians, This is a difficult time for our nation but together we will prevail. On Tuesday, October 20th, 2020, in the Lekki area of Lagos, innocent Nigerians exercising their democratic right to protest were attacked by soldiers of the Nigerian Army. Some died. Many were injured. This terrible incidence has no place in our […]

#EndSARS: Osinbajo’s Cross and the Example of Ubitu Ekiwe – By Prof. Phil Alalibo

Posted by admin #EndSars, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists, P Saturday, October 24th, 2020

Prof. Phil Alalibo / NNP / October 24, 2020-There is no ambiguity that principled leadership is a missing variable among Nigerian leaders. There is hardly an ideologue among the political class who believes in a worthy cause, one bigger than him. To many, patriotism is only skin deep and does not permeate the veins. They are […]

Ethnic clash: Scores feared killed as Fagba, Iju- Ishaga in Lagos boils

Posted by admin #EndSars, Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, October 23rd, 2020

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Violent clash on Friday erupted between Hausa and Yoruba communities in Fagba, Iju-Ishaga, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State with an unconfirmed number of persons killed in the process. Residents are in a panic. No presence of security personnel. According to an eyewitness, trouble started when a horde of hoodlums intercepted […]

Count Igbos Out of the Arson, Destruction in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, South-East, State News Friday, October 23rd, 2020

Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, Founder: Igbo Youth Movement and Secretary, Eastern Consultative Assembly denies the insinuations that Igbo youths may be behind the arson and destruction in Lagos trailing the EndSARS campaigns The very distasteful strategy by certain heartless spin doctors, to manipulate the minds of Nigerians with a lie from the pit of hell, […]