Hoodlums on Thursday broke into the National Correctional Service Centre in Okitipupa, the headquarters of Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, and forcefully released the inmates. It was gathered that no fewer than 58 inmates were released during the attack while a vehicle was burnt. It was also learnt that several items were destroyed on the premises of the prison. The Public Relations Officer of the Ondo State Command of NCS, Ogundare Babatunde, confirmed the incident to The PUNCH on the telephone. PUNCH
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that security cameras captured the shootings of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. He said the footage would be submitted to the judicial panel on police brutality, extra-judicial killings and extortion. The governor said this during a live programme on ARISE TV on Thursday. He said this when asked why the cameras capturing the protest was removed before the shootings of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. In his response, he noted that the CCTV cameras have footage of what happened during the protests. Sanwo-Olu also explained that the footage would…
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has sued the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, Rep. Ephraim Nwuzi, representing Etche/Onuma Federal Constituency of Rivers State and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the defection earlier this month to the All Progressives Congress, APC, by Nwuzi. Rep. Nwuzi had on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, announced his defection from PDP, to the APC on the floor of the Green Chamber, sparking outrage. The PDP, according to VANGUARD findings, is filed at a Federal High Court of Nigeria, the Port Harcourt Judicial Division yesterday with the suit number…
Actress Ada Ameh has made a passionate appeal to President Buhari and Governor Sanwo-Olu to make it possible for her to fly to Abuja to bury her daughter. DAILY POST had reported that the actress lost her daughter, Aladi Godgifts Ameh on October 20 after a surgery in Abuja. However, due to the current curfew in Lagos to curb the recent chaos, the actress in an emotional video via her Instagram account said she hasn’t been able to travel to bury her daughter. She begged the Federal Government to heed to the pleas of Nigerian youths and bring the situation…
After protests in Lagos State turned awry that sanctioned a 72-hour curfew order by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the curfew may now be eased Friday. Sanwo-Olu stated that once the streets have been cleared and nerve relaxed, “we might slow down the curfew by tomorrow (Friday) or next tomorrow (Saturday) at the latest,” In what started as a peaceful demonstration for the total end to extrajudicial killings by a unit of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), hoodlums took advantage of the situation, attacked protesters and also clamped down on police stations and other properties in the state.
To prevent further destruction of public infrastructure in Lagos State by hoodlums, the Federal Government has deployed more security forces to guard public assets in the state. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made this known on Thursday morning while speaking in an interview on Arise TV monitored by The PUNCH. Sanwo-Olu revealed that the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin; and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, called him on the phone on Wednesday. He said the two security chiefs asked to deploy more troops to secure public assets and he said, “Why not? Our airports…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring and fueling the End SARS protests through unguarded assertions on social media. The APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yekini Nabena, who made the accusation in a statement on Wednesday, said PDP was also playing politics with the protests. He maintained that the APC would not join issues with PDP on the development which the #EndSARS protests had taken. According to him, the party would give record of how the opposition leaders were directly and indirectly sponsoring the protests and playing politics with the issue “It…
A coalition of 100 civil society organisations has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Chief of Army Staff following the killing of unarmed protesters Tuesday evening at Lekki Tollgate. Besides, the group asked the president to immediately order suspension of the Nigerian Army’s newly launched Operation Crocodile Smile just as it urged soldiers to use non-kinetic approach to engage protesters Reacting to ongoing developments in the country triggered by the Lekki killings, the group in a statement in Abuja, also tasked the president to sack the entire service chiefs as well as constitute independent commission of enquiry…
A former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has denied any involvement in the Tuesday shooting of #EndSARS protesters by some soldiers in Lagos. The shooting has attracted global outrage against the Nigerian authorities. Several allegations have been made against Mr Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, regarding the incident, with some people saying, without proof, that he “ordered” the shooting just to show his loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari. Some business concerns linked to Mr Tinubu, including The Nation newspaper and a television station, TVC, have been attacked in Lagos by hoodlums whose motives remain unclear.…
The Presidency, yesterday, came under attack from former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka over Tuesday’s shooting of ENDSARS protesters by the Nigerian Army at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) said it had already dragged President Mohammad Buhari’s government and the military before the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the matter. Scores of protesters were killed as shooters believed to be officers of the Nigerian military opened fire on hundreds of youths keeping vigil at the Lekki tollgate to demand an end to police brutality. Many were also wounded. Still…