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President Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed his commitment to putting an end to estimated billing in the country. The President made this statement in a tweet on his Twitter handle @MBuhari on Wednesday stating that the deployment of meters is already in progress in a few states. “Under the first phase of the Presidential Mass Metering […]
A group known as The Centre for Africa Liberation and Socio-Economic Rights (CALSER) has asked Amnesty International to leave Nigeria within seven days. The human rights group has come under attacks on different occasions while holding government to account. In 2018, The Cable reported how some protesters who picketed the head office of Amnesty International in Abuja […]
The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has submitted a video footage recorded by its surveillance cameras on October 20, 2020 to the Lagos judicial panel on #EndSARS. Abayomi Omomu-wansa, managing director of LCC who made the submission to the panel on Tuesday, said the cameras stopped working from 8pm on the night of the shooting at […]
A trader Ndukwe Ekwekwe, has narrated how he ended up in a wheelchair after being thrown down from a two-storey building by the disbanded SARS operatives on February 16, 2018 in Lagos. Ekwekwe, who was escorted to the Hearing by the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry by his mother, told the panel that […]
The Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, has said that the United States Army got Nigeria’s permission to rescue its citizen in northern Nigeria. Magashi said this to journalists at the National Assembly on Tuesday, shortly after the ministry’s budget defence. This comes three days after the Naval Special Warfare group in the United States, […]
The Federal Government has denied generating a ‘no-fly’ list of youths and persons who participated in the recent #EndSARS protests against police brutality. The Federal Ministry of Interior made this known in a tweet on Tuesday in reaction to a media report by an online publication. The publication alleged that the Nigerian authorities have […]
The National Examination Council has announced new dates for the suspended Senior Secondary School Examination beginning from Monday 9th November 2020. The council on the 25th October 2020 postponed the examination indefinitely due to the security challenges occasioned by the #ENDSARS protest which disrupted the smooth conduct of the examinations in some parts of […]
The West African Examinations Council has released the results of the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination on Monday, November 2, 2020. Head of the National office, Patrick Areghan, said a total of 1,549,740 registered for the examination. Areghan said 1,338,348 candidates representing 86.99 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of any […]
‘Waymaker’, a song by Osinachi Joseph, a Nigerian gospel songstress better known as Sinach, has been named the ‘Song of the Year’ at the 2020 Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Awards. GMA, which celebrates outstanding achievements in the Christian music industry, recently released the list of artistes who won in different categories of the 51st […]
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has stated that it would not compel any police officer to return to duty. The Police Service Commission said this on Sunday in a statement by Ikechukwu Ani, its head of media and public affairs. The statement was in reaction to a newspaper publication which stated that the commission had […]
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