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The Nigerian Army, contrary to its decision last week,  will appear  on Saturday before the Lagos State Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS peaceful protesters by soldiers on  October 20 at the Lekki tollgate. Sources close to the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel confirmed on Thursday that the army had acknowledged the […]

The Lagos State Police Command has expressed readiness to resist any form of protest, peaceful or otherwise, noting that the state was still smarting from the havoc wreaked on it in the wake of the #EndSARS protests that spread across the country. The Command said the warning became necessary because the information from intelligence reports […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that efforts are being made to address the rogue elements of the Nigerian Police Force. The president said this in a meeting at the presidential villa with a delegation of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria. Speaking to the traditional rulers, the president Buhari said “We have heard […]

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 […]

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 […]