Monday, 18 November, 2024

Month: November 2020


Widow of the slain  officer of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Mrs Yetunde Ajayi told the Ekiti State Judicial Panel on Human Rights Violations by Police Officers (SARS) that her late husband was killed two hours after he left his Read more…


A Federal High Court in Asaba has declared as unlawful the arrest and detention of Nicholas Makolomi, who recorded the Delta Police brutality video believed to have triggered the #EndSARS campaign. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba held that Makolomi’s arrest and detention Read more…


The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters has heard how a businessman, Basil Chetal Ejiagwa, was tortured in 2014 till he lost the use of his legs and suffered Read more…


Forces within the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the nomination of Professor Mahmood Yakubu for a fresh term of five years as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have lost out in the power Read more…


•Says report on killing of protesters blatantly irresponsible The Federal Government, yesterday, wrote the Cable News Network popularly known as CNN over its recent report on the Lekki shooting titled “How a Bloody Night of Bullets Quashed a Young Protest Movement.” Read more…


Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that a new pressure group, Lagos4Lagos has emerged with the sole aim of returning decision making organs to Lagosians, away from the perceived control of the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu Read more…


Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that former Vice President of the World Bank and 2019 Presidential candidate, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili seeks to inspire better citizens engagement in the political process with her novel initiative known as #FixPolitics A quest to understand the Read more…


A mild drama occurred on Tuesday at a sitting of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, when a petitioner accused police lead counsel of brutality against him. The Read more…


A stabbing attack which injured two women in a department store in the Swiss city of Lugano is being investigated as a suspected terrorist act. The female suspect, who allegedly called out ‘Allahu Akbar,’ has been arrested. The attack occurred Read more…


In November 2018, after a vote that did not matter enough to him to push conspiracy theories about the outcome, President Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden and delivered the hard truth. “This was a fair election,” he said Read more…


Anambra state government has conducted an election for the Awka Development Town Union . The election held over the weekend took place at the Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development center Awka. The new executive members of Awka Development Union Nigeria Read more…


Date: 23rd November, 2020 ……………………………. • As 16 Killed by ENDSARS Rioters get posthumous promotion The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni, has today, 23rd November, 2020 approved the promotion of Eighty-Two Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine Read more…