…Furious gov goes after Igbo proscribed group, local collaborators with bounty…Inside story of the Oyigbo attack that killed security agents…Residents allege police, soldiers siege amid manhunt for assailants Before Wednesday, October 21 wave of violence that left three police stations, ...
Read More »Our State Police Proposal Ignored Since 2018 – El-Rufai
…‘We should move fast to remove structural bottlenecks that hobble our country’…Says APC committee proposed significant devolution of powers between federal, state govtsGovernor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai of Kaduna State says state police is among the key recommendations the All Progressives ...
Read More »Sanwo-Olu Lifts Curfew Due To EndSARS Riots In Lagos
The curfew imposed on Lagos State after the hijack of the peaceful #EndSARS protests has been lifted immediately. The 12 am to 4am curfew imposed by the Federal Government to curb the spread of COVID19 remains. Lagosians are free to ...
Read More »Secondus Commends Buhari For Backing Okonjo-Iweala For WTO Post
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for backing Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in emerging as the first female and African Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The party’s National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, gave the commendation ...
Read More »Lekki Tollgate Report: Amnesty International Doesn’t Run This Country — Presidency Reacts
The Presidency has said Amnesty International does not run the country and was wrong in its report on the movement of military men from the barracks to Lekki Tollgate, where peaceful #EndSARS protesters were shot at on Tuesday, October 20. ...
Read More »Wike Signs Executive Order Proscribing IPOB In Rivers, Says It’s Terrorist Group
Port Harcourt— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group and signed an executive order to reinforce the ban on IPOB its activities in the state. He made this known ...
Read More »Army reveals Sanwo-Olu invited soldiers to restore order at Lekki Toll Gate
The 81 Division of the Nigerian Army in Lagos says its soldiers were not responsible for the bloodshed witnessed in the state last week. Eyewitnesses reported on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 how soldiers of the Nigerian Army fired live ammunition ...
Read More »Lagos State has signed Amotekun into law – Sanwo-Olu To Gani Adams
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos The Lagos State Government on Monday said Iba Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo did not get his facts right when claimed that the state government has refused to sign the Amotekun bill into law.Adams during an ...
Read More »Tinubu Denies Traveling To France, Alleged Abduction Of Son
National leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, dismissed reports that he travelled to France in the wake of the shooting of protesters by suspected soldiers in Lekki, Lagos.He also described reports that his son, Seyi Tinubu, was ...
Read More »President Buhari Suspends Endsars Protests Nationwide
24. I therefore call on our youths to discontinue the street protests and constructively engage government in finding solutions. Your voice has been heard loud and clear and we are responding. 25. And I call on all Nigerians to go about their normal ...
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