Day: October 22, 2020

Do All necessary to end crisis in Nigeria, Buhari charges Security Chiefs, others

Aliyu Aliyu

  Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has at a meeting with the security chiefs charged government at all levels to do all that is necessary to end the riots in the country. This came as the President is also billed to address Nigerians after about three weeks of #EndSARS protests that have turned bloody and pit the Africa’s biggest crude oil exporter on the edge. Buhari, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno told reporters, said that government at all lvels should do all that is necessary to end crisis at the…

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We have no hand in Lekki Toll Gate Power Outage – EKEDC

Damola Oyede

  Leading power utility firm in Nigeria, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), on has denied involvement in the power outage at the Lekki Tollgate area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, when soldiers opened fire on peaceful protesters. EKEDC particularly debunked the rumours making rounds that it removed supply from the Admiralty Toll Plaza on Lekki -Epe expressway on 20th October 2020 now tagged #BlackTuesday. In a statement signed by the Company’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Godwin Idemudia, Lagos State had contracted the supply of electricity to the plaza and the…

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Why Nigeria’s economic growth stagnated for 10 years – Oil marketers

Efe Wellington

  Oil marketers in Nigeria bluntly rejected any attempt to take the country back to the fuel subsidy regime, which gulped N10 trillion of the country’s revenues in the last 10 years. Rising under the auspices of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), the marketers declared that the fuel subsidy policy stagnated Nigeria’s economic growth for 10 years. Chairman of MOMAN, Adetunji Oyebanji, who stated this during the first webinar organised by the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC), confirmed an earlier report by Platforms Africa that the…

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Amnesty International to Sanwo-Olu: Soldiers, Police Killed 12 Protesters In Lekki, Alausa

Aoko Benjamin

  Amnesty International has punctured claims by Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu, the Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on casualty figures after Soldiers opened fire on peaceful protesters in Lekki Tollgate area of the state. Mr. Sanwoolu, who blamed “forces beyond our direct control,” for the military assault, earlier claimed that no life was lost to the Lekki incident. He later confirmed that one of the victims later died at an hospital in Lagos. The global human right group however declared that its on-the-ground investigation has confirmed that the Nigerian…

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