Day: October 19, 2020

#EndSARS: Hoodlums free inmates in Edo prison, raze police stations during protest

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The #EndSARS protest may have been hijacked by hoodlums to attack the Oko Medium Security Centre of Benin, Edo State Correctional Centre and freed inmates. The surging hoodlums overpowered the five armed guards in the facility and had a free day looting shops along roadsides leading to the prison. They also reportedly carted away valuables from offices of prison officials. It was gathered that immediately after the attack in Benin Prison, security was alerted in Oko but calls to the Nigerian Army and the Police for reinforcement were not heeded…

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Judge to Sen. Ndume: “You may be remanded in prison till Maina appears”

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Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno South has been issued 21 days by the Federal High Court in Abuja to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has repeatedly failed to appear for continuation of his trial on money laundering charges. The former pension boss is facing a 12-count criminal charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him and a firm, Common Input Properties & Investment Limited. EFCC in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/256/2019, alleged that the ex-Pension boss used fictitious names…

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#EndSARS protesters shut Alausa Secretariat in Lagos

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Protesters of #EndSARS, today (Monday), barricaded the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, and shut out workers from gaining access into the premises of the Secretariat. Commuters were seen stranded at bus stops due to few commercial buses on the road. Some of the areas where the protesters have occupied include; Awolowo Road, Ikeja, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ikorodu Road, LASU-Iba Road by Isheri-Roundabout, Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, LCDA. Also, other parts of Lagos like Yaba and Lekki axis were not spared as people have to trek with little vehicular movements. Share…

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Lekki tollgate: Lagos loses N234m due to protest

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Lagos State Government has lost revenue of about N234m to the closure of tollgates as the #EndSARS protests on the Island. The figure was obtained from the daily and monthly targets set for the tollgates by the government, which owns the tollgates, which are being managed by the Lekki Concession Company. A Lagos State commissioner, who wished to remain anonymous, told our correspondent that the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge was expected to generate about N10m daily, while the Admiralty Circle Plaza along the Lekki-Epe Expressway was not expected to generate less…

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