CCTV: Blackout rocked Lekki Tollgate after soldiers arrived in seven trucks

  The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20 on Saturday resumed the viewing of a CCTV footage submitted by the Lekki Concession Company, operator of the tollgate. The footage showed that the scene was calm until about 6.43pm when people could be seen running towards the tollgate from the Oriental Hotel end. Two minutes later, at 6.45pm, vehicles, with flashing headlights, presumably military vehicles, arrived on the scene. There were…

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Nigeria suffers worst Recession in over 30 years

  . NBS says Nigeria’s GDP Contracts -3.62% Q3 as country witnesses two consecutive contractions   Nigeria, Africa’s biggest crude oil exporter, has officially slipped into its worst economic recession in over three decades. The country, which announced this, confirmed that it’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by  -3.62 %  (year-on-year) in real terms in the third quarter of 2020. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) posted the figure on Saturday in its official website. With latest GDP figure contraction, Nigeria economy has posted consecutively two contractions. Thw recessio was anticipated as one of…

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