Month: October 2020

Thugs behead Policeman, raze Police Stations in Nigeria’s Anambra

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Suspected hoodlums, numbering over 100, have hacked to death an unidentified policeman deployed at Ogidi Police Station in Anambra State. The hoodlums, in video clips obtained by PRNigeria, also beheaded the policeman and thereafter burnt his headless body. A credible security source told PRNigeria that the hoodlums chanted war songs as they moved round the town with the lifeless head of the slain police officer. “The hoodlums came from somewhere else and were approaching Ogidi community, when they met the deceased police officer, and killed him in cold blood.…

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If Nigeria dies, hatred killed her by FEMI ADESINA

ADEOLA YUSUF

  What a week it has been for our own dear native land! Just at the beginning of the month, as the country turned 60 as an independent entity, President Muhammadu Buhari had charged us to “begin sincere process of national healing, eliminate old and outworn perceptions that are always put to test in the lie they are.” What began about a fortnight ago as “genuine concerns and agitations” by Nigerian youths against the excesses of the Special Anti-robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police (SARS), has suddenly transmogrified into expressions…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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How soldiers rescued Oba of Lagos in rage that consumed Palace, TVC, others

ADEOLA YUSUF

  More facts have emerged on how soldiers rescued Nigeria frontline monarch, Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Okikiola Akinolu, from the irate youths in a rage that affected his Palace, and other institutions like the Television Continental (TVC); the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA); the multi-million naira Ojodu office of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), among others. The youths, checks by Platforms Africa showed, made several attempts to burn down the Palace before a team of soldiers arrived. The soldiers were responding to a distress call personally made by Akinolu, a…

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#EndSARS: Foreign Airlines Suspend Flights into Nigeria

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The foreign airlines have suspended flights into Lagos and Abuja, two major cities for travellers in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy. This move, a report by New Telegraph read, came as a result of unrest in many parts of the country. This is coming as Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Arik Air, has cancelled all its flight operations for today due to the 24-hour curfew announced by Lagos State government on Tuesday. The carrier said all booked passengers on the cancelled flights are advised to reschedule their flights for later dates…

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Anger as casualty figure from Lagos Lekki Tollgate gunshots rises

ADEOLA YUSUF

Anger and panic were heightened in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, and across the World as the casualty figures from a sporadic shooting that ensued at Lekki Tollgate, surged. One of those who have been sharply angered by the killing of protesters is the United States former Presidential candidate under Democrats Party, Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Inton demanded in a Tweet that President  Muhammadu Buhari put an end to the killing of youths who have staged a peaceful protest againt Police brutality. Lekki Tollgate is one of the major venues of EndSARS…

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Lagos boils, declares 24-hour curfew over #EndSARS

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Government of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, has declared a 24-hour curfew with effect from 4pm on Tuesday (today). This was revealed by Gboyega Akosile, the Chief Press Secretary to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on his Twitter handle. The imposition of the curfew followed increase in the hijacking of the #EndSARS protest in the state. In a short statement, the Governor said: “I have watched with shock how what began as a peaceful #EndSARS protest has degenerated into a monster that is threatening the well-being of our…

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