The police in Lagos on Friday embarked on a show of force across major areas of the state ahead of a planned Yoruba Nation rally scheduled to hold at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, on Saturday. The rally had in the past taken place in Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. According to pictures released by the command, hundreds of heavily-armed police officers were seen in different locations within the state. Muyiwa Adejobi, the Lagos police spokesperson in a statement obtained by SaharaReporters stated that the show of force was to send a warning signal to the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he is deeply shocked that bandits killed Zamfara lawmaker Muhammad Ahmad. Mr Ahmad, until his death, was a state legislator. He was attacked by armed bandits while driving to Kano along Shema-Funtua Road, Katsina. “I am deeply shocked by the tragic circumstances in which the lawmaker died while driving his son to Kano to board a flight,” presidential spokesman Garba Shehu quoted the president to have said. Mr Buhari reiterated his directive to the country’s armed forces to deal sternly with anti-social elements bent on harming innocent citizens and creating fear and uncertainties under whatever…
A leading youth advocacy group in Nigeria, the Pentagon Movement Group (PMG) has urged youths in Ekiti state to participate in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for them to participate in the 2022 and 2023 elections in the state. The state coordinator of PMG, Ade-Ademola Ilesanmi who spoke on Thursday at the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after a rally by the youths in the state said there was need for the young population to leave the social media and participate actively in politics in their respective communities. The…
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, rejected the lifting of suspension on micro-blogging site, Twitter. The rejection came while the House was considering the report of its Committee on the matter. The House had mandated its Committees on Information, ICT, Intelligence, Justice and Orientation to investigate the circumstances surrounding the suspension of Twitter by the Nigerian government. At the consideration of the report, the Deputy Minority Leader of the House, Toby Okechukwu suggested an amendment to one of the recommendations. It states “that the Federal Government should take into cognizance the negative effect of the Twitter suspension on Nigerians who…
The Lagos State Police Command says no form of rally by ‘secessionist agitators’ will be allowed in the state on Saturday. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu disclosed this in a statement obtained by SaharaReporters. Organisers of the planned Yoruba Nation rally including Professor Banji Akintoye and Sunday Igboho had chosen the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota as the venue. Despite an attack on Igboho’s residence with less than 72 hours to the proposed rally in Lagos, Akintoye has declared that there is no going back on the planned demonstration. “We want to confirm again that the…
Yoruba secessionist Sunday Igboho said he was at home when the operatives of the State Security Service collaborated with the Nigerian Army in an early morning attack on his Ibadan residence. Witnesses said the men, dressed in Nigerian military uniform attacked the house located in Soka area of Ibadan at about 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, destroyed valuable assets in the building, killed two, and took the bodies away. Footage from the incident also contained blood spills in the activist’s living room and vehicles destroyed. A commentator in a live video of the incident said the men stormed the residence with…
The Hisbah, an agency saddled with the responsibility of enforcement of Shariah doctrine in Kano State, on Wednesday, announced ban on use of mannequins to display clothes by tailors, supermarkets and boutique owners in the state. This was just as the agency warned that the agency would embark on raiding of those places to remove them, describing the use of the mannequins for advert purposes as idolatery. Commander of the state Hisbah board, Sheikh Aroun ibn Sina, who announced the ban in the state, added that the use of mannequins by tailors, boutique owners and others contravened the provision…
Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has explained how Nnamdi Kanu was intercepted and brought back to Nigeria. Malami spoke on Tuesday at a press briefing which took place at the ministry of justice in Abuja. The AGF said Kanu was arrested on Sunday through the joint efforts of the intelligence and security services. “Self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed secessionist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Kanu, has been intercepted through the collaborative efforts of Nigerian intelligence and Security Services,” Malami said in a statement. “He has been brought back to Nigeria, in order to continue facing trial after…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu till July 26, 2021 for continuation of his trial. Kanu is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony instituted against him at the court in response to years of campaign for the independent Republic of Biafra through IPOB. He was granted bail in April 2017 for health reasons but skipped bail after flouting some of the conditions given to him by the court. In a broadcast via Radio Biafra, Kanu boasted that the Nigerian court lacks the capacity to…
The operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), on Tuesday, produced the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Mr. Kanu, who was brought to the court amidst tight security, arrived at the court at about 1:40 pm. However, all the entrances to the court have been under lock as the hearing in the matter is ongoing. Credit; Vanguard