Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola is trending at the moment on social media, especially Twitter as many Nigerians have turned his camera discovery story at the Lekki scene of the shooting incident to be a “huge joke.” Critics of Fashola’s story argued that, after the October 20th shooting of protesters, the Lagos State Waste Management (LAWMA) staff have gone round to clean up the area, many people have plied the routes, and scavengers that pick up metal materials for sales have all gone round the axis, so after…
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Fashola discovers ‘hidden camera’ at scene of Lekki shooting
Former governor of Lagos State, and current minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola on Sunday, found a camera at the scene of the shooting in the Lekki area of Lagos state. Fashola found the device while on tour of the place where #EndSARS protesters demonstrated for 13 days before they were forcefully dispersed. On Tuesday last week, October 20, men in army uniform invaded the Lekki toll plaza and shot at the peaceful protesters, and this has generated controversies over casualty figures, and also who ordered the soldiers to…
Read MoreTHE MAKING OF A CSR MASTERSTROKE: AN X-RAY OF FIRSTBANK’S YEOMAN EFFORT TO MOVE ONE MILLION CHILDREN TO E-LEARNING
The rabbit hole of uncertainty, confusion and fear that pupils and their parents fell into in the dying days of March when the country was in lockdown was best captured in a Saturday Sun feature of May 16, titled, “COVID-19: Troubles of e-Learning.” The story catalogues the challenges that erupted out of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the fears and frustrations brewed by the new abnormality foisted on the world, the pessimism that pervaded the globe from developed to underdeveloped countries and the possibilities that blew up in…
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