First Lady Aisha Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday via her Twitter handle unveiled another campaign against insecurity in the country. The campaign, #ArewaMufarka, was accompanied by two videos slides and one picture of five persons with the placards reading “EndInsecurityNow; EndBanditryNow; AllLivesMatters”. In her latest campaign against killings, the wife ofContinue Reading
A showdown between security forces and #EndSARS activists may be in the offing as the protesters yesterday unfolded plans to scale up the campaign to force the federal government to meet their demands to stop alleged police brutality, among others, by blocking critical road arteries in the Federal Capital TerritoryContinue Reading
Defence Minister, Bashir Magashi, has warned End SARS protesters against national security breach. He advised them not to allow their agitation be hijacked by people with ulterior motives. The retired General gave the caution in Abuja on Sunday, when the Coordinator, Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO), Danladi Pasali led the nationalContinue Reading
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Sunday assured Nigerians that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, unit of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has ended. Lawan made the remark while disclosing that Buhari ordered the dissolution of SARS and not the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu asContinue Reading
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), which was established on Thursday, July 11, 2009, as an offer of unconditional amnesty for ex-Niger Delta militants through a proclamation by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua on June 25, 2009, had no doubt brought peace to the oil rich Niger Delta region andContinue Reading
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has denied that he is among the sponsors of the End SARS protest. Nigerians have been protesting police brutality, killings and extortion for over one week all over the country. It has led to citizens marching to and occupyingContinue Reading
The Federal Government has said that the ongoing nationwide protest is no longer peaceful, warning that it will not fold its hands and allow the country to be thrown into anarchy. This is following the violence that has trailed the #EndSARS protests in some parts of the country, specifically theContinue Reading
The Police in Rivers State said they are investigating the alleged rising incidents of rape at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Rumuolumeni, on the outskirts of Port Harcourt. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni disclosed this to our correspondent in Port Harcourt, the state capital. ThisContinue Reading
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has said that the next presidential candidate of the party will be based on agreement by stakeholders”. Nabena, speaking with the Sun, also suggested measures the Southeast geopolitical zone can adopt to actualise Igbo presidency in 2023.Continue Reading
French police have shot a man dead after a stabbing attack in a Paris suburb. According to French media, a man was decapitated on a street in the Conflans St Honorine area at about 5pm local time. The country’s anti-terror prosecutor has called the incident a stabbing but the ReutersContinue Reading
