President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government will assist the nation to give justice to peaceful protesters who lost their lives. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Sunday, Buhari also expressed the hope that the security men who were murdered and property owners whose assets were vandalised and looted would treated justly and fairly. The Judicial panel of inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government to look into remote and immediate causes as well as…
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has granted approval for two mobile network operators (MNOs) to carry out trial on National Roaming Service for a period of three months, beginning from Aug. 1, 2020 and ending on Oct. 31. Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC Director, Public Affairs, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Adinde named the two telecoms operators as Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Nigeria and the Emerging Markets Telecommunication Service Limited (EMTS), trading as 9Mobile in Nigeria. He said that with the approval the EMTS and MTN were expected to configure their networks to begin test and simulation…
President Muhammadu Buhari has again condemned hate messages and eviction notices to ethnic and religious groups as a result of the consequences of the EndSARS protests in some parts of the country. Many lives were lost, while both public and private assets, worth billions of naira, were either burnt, damaged, vandalised or looted by hoodlums, following the EndSARS protests in parts of the country. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State had, on Oct. 22, said that the state had recorded losses from the escalated #EndSARS protests running into billions of naira. He added that the massive destruction witnessed would cause…
By Ahmed Attahiru, Gusau Armed bandits have again struck Zamfara and kidnapped the village head, Chief Imam and 52 others in Lingyado village of Maru local government area of the state. One of the kidnap victims, who escaped being kidnapped along with others, Abdullahi Mohammed told our reporter that the gunmen invaded the village around 8am on Sunday. He said that the village head, Alhaji Dalhatu Mohammed, the Chief Imam and 52 others, were kidnapped by the gunmen who stormed the village on motorcycles, shooting sporadically. “When they started shooting,later they went from house to house searching and kidnapped the…
Sokoto state government says it is on course on l the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives to the people of the state. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Affairs, Abubakar Shekara made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday also debunked a recent media report, alleging that the state began the distribution of Covid-19 palliatives in order to avoid looting, as is being experienced in some states. “The story is false and misleading and deliberate mischief, aimed at disparaging Sokoto as a state and casting aspersions on the image of the State Government, obviously at the bidding of…
Pope Francis said Sunday he will create 13 new Catholic cardinals next month, including the first African-American “prince of the church” and a Franciscan preacher to the papal household. Francis made the surprise announcement from his window overlooking Saint Peter’s Square at the end of his weekly Angelus, and said they would be appointed on November 28. It will be “an unusual and possibly unprecedented ceremony, held during the midst of a continuing global pandemic”, Vatican expert Joshua McElwee said in the National Catholic Reporter. The Vatican has been on high alert over the health of the pope, 83, after…
By Kayode Olaitan Unarguably, fake news has resulted in stampeding the uninformed public to unpatriotic and destructive actions, especially as it happens in the protest against the alleged police brutality known as #EndSARS. On October 3, #EndSARS protest began with a viral message broadcast on social media. The message suggested that men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) gunned down a Nigerian youth, snatched his car and ran away with it. The video spread on social media and the #ENDSARS started to gain prominence as more young people demanded an end to police brutality. Dimensions to the report began to…
By Mufutau Ojo It started somewhat as a whimper of protest against the excesses of the police. Today, the simmering #EndSARS protest has veered out of control and has assumed a life of its own, having been infiltrated by hordes of street urchins and hoodlums who set fire to critical public assets as well as private property. Many states now are under one form of curfew or the other as rampaging youths pillage ware houses, shopping malls, markets and even private residences. How did a largely peaceful protest by motley groups of youths turn to a national orgy of violence,…
One of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari, Zahra Buhari-Indimi has posited that her father is not Nigeria’s problem, as some people are wont to portray. As a result of #EndSARS protests, hoodlums are reported to have hijacked the process and embarked on looting COVID-19 palliatives stored in various warehouses in states. States in which the hoodlums have so far looted CACOVID palliatives include Lagos, Plateau, Osun, Kwara, Taraba, Adamawa, etc. Zahra in a post on her Instagram page mrs_zmbi on Sunday, said for poor Nigerians to have discovered COVID-19 palliatives in several warehouses across the country, means her father…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP has petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to investigate alleged hoarding of COVID-19 palliatives in warehouses in several states. In the current wave of #EndSARS protests across the country, hoodlums have stormed warehouses where COVID-19 palliatives were stored for distribution to poor Nigerians and carted away foodstuffs. The petition dated 24 October 2020 and signed by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare was addressed to the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye and copied to the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay. “Some people…