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It was indeed a dark Wednesday for the entire staff of Providence Nursery and Primary School in Enugu State as the school’s bus driver, seven pupils and a teacher were said to have died instantly in a road accident around Nkwo Junction, in the Awgu Local Government Area of the state, while conveying the children home from school. Nine other pupils, who were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury, were rushed to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, for treatment. According to the Federal Road Safety Corps,…

The Nigerian Army yesterday broke its silence on the #EndSARS protest which led to the Lekki shooting incident that was condemned globally, as the military command denied that it fired at the marchers. It also disputed the claims by Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu that he knew nothing about troop deployment in Lekki Tollgate where soldiers were accused of shooting protesters for allegedly flouting the curfew imposed on the state to curb the social unrest unleashed by hoodlums who had seized the #EndSARS protest. A statement by the Acting…

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…

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…

Lagos State Government says its Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS-related Abuses and Lekki Toll Gate Incident would begin sitting on Tuesday. It also said all suspected hoodlums arrested in connection with the mayhem unleashed on the state after the Lekki shootings would be prosecuted. The state governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had inaugurated the judicial panel under the chairmanship of Justice Doris Okuwobi (a retired judge) to investigate cases of brutality and human rights violations allegedly committed by SARS operatives. Other members of the panel are…

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina may have drawn another reason(s) to himself to be perceived in the negative with his article titled, ‘If Nigeria dies, hatred killed her’. The presidential aide said that the #EndSARS movement was a vehicle that was used to hate messages, and was encouraged by religious groups. This led to a reaction from both the Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN) and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs(NSCIA). The religious groups knocked the Presidency stating that rather than own up to…

< The Akinshemoyin ruling house of Lagos Island has issued a statement, condemning the looting and attacks of the traditional and ancestral heritage of Lagos State and the carting away of the staff of office of the Oba of Lagos, Oba Ridwan Akiolu by hoodlums who invaded the palace on Wednesday. In a statement jointly signed by Prince Salami-Abisako and Prince Adeyemi Sarumi said it will not fold its arms and allow miscreants to destroy Lagos State. The statement reads: “Though we are in total support of the peaceful protest…