The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has banned the personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad from routine patrols. He also banned and other Tactical Squads of the Force including the Special Tactical Squad, Intelligence Response Team, Anti-Cultism Squad and other Tactical Squads operating at the Federal, Zonal, and Command levels, from carrying out routine patrols. They were also banned from conducting other conventional low-risk duties – stop and search duties, checkpoints, mounting of roadblocks, traffic checks, etc – with immediate effect. In addition, no personnel of the Force is authorised to embark on patrols or tactical assignments in…
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Following an increase in cases of police brutality, harassment and extortion of civilians in Nigeria, with Lagos being a hotspot, the Lagos State Police Command has released numbers for Lagos residents to lodge their complaints. The police said this is part of its efforts to curb the excesses of the police in the state. This is a reaction to the mass outcry against the Nigerian police and its Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for their alleged brutality, extortion and harassment against Nigerians. The outcry against SARS, a dreaded and highly controversial unit of the Nigerian police force, resurfaced on social media…
The Ondo state government has directed civil servants to resume at their duty posts on Monday. Those given the directive are from grade level 1 to 12, who had been working remotely for over five months due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu Head of Service in the state, Oludare Aragbaye, gave the directive for the resumption of the workers in a memo on Sunday in Akure, the capital. “It will be recalled that efforts by the state government at combating COVID-19 yielded encouraging results to the effect that the curve of the virus has been flattened to…
The widespread canard that the operations of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), in Delta state, assaulted and killed a young man in the state, has been proved erroneous, as the Minister of State, Labour & Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, confirmed the incident to Vanguard. Keyamo who said he contacted the victims brother and the state’s Commissioner of Police, to confirm the incident, emphatically opined that those officers involved in the incident are not SARS but ‘Operation Delta Safe’. He equally confirmed that the victim was not shot as said by his brother, but fell out of the Police vehicle when being…
Akure— Two persons sustained gunshot injuries in Akure, the Ondo State capital, as political thugs engaged themselves ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Sporadic shooting rent the air at Obanla Junction in Akure metropolis as thugs went on rampage Saturday night. Eyewitness account alleged that the clash was between supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC.
There was heavy shooting Sunday morning along Oba Adeshida road in Akure, Ondo State capital as clash between supporters of the Peoples Democratic BH Party(PDP) and the All Progressives Congress(APC) escalated. The Sunday morning clash was said to have been a reprisal attack over the killing of an APC member in Oba Nla area of Akure on Saturday night. Several persons were said to have been injured while many vehicles were vandalised in the clash. The fight has spread to Erakhale area. Motorists have stopped plying the Oba Adeshida road as at press time. Details shortly…. THE NATION
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has claimed he caught his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu, in bed with a married man. Fani-Kayode disclosed this in a Tweet on Saturday while reacting to a video posted by an online newspaper, Sahara Reporters, which shows both estranged lovers exchanging words. The couple, who have four children together, parted ways recently when their differences got of hand. “@SaharaReporters posted a video which supposedly depicts me ABUSING my estranged wife. This is nothing but a propaganda video. There was NO physical abuse. I simply took the phone from her to stop her from recording…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the party’s floor is open for anybody vying for the 2023 presidential election, including former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, said this while fielding questions from journalists in Bauchi at the weekend when he led a solidarity visit to the state governor, Bala Mohammed. The delegates included, Governor Aminu Tambuwa of Sokoto State, former Governor of Gombe State, Hassan Ibrahim Dankwambo; former Senate President, David Mark and a party chieftain; Nazif Gamawa. Answering question on whether the party will re-present the former Vice President,…
Russia reported 10,499 new Coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest number of daily infections since May 15, when the outbreak was at its peak and lockdowns were in place. Russia’s Coronavirus crisis centre said that 107 Coronavirus deaths had been confirmed in the last 24 hours, which took the official national death toll to 21,358. Reuters
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said the Federal Government spent N540bn subsidising electricity in 2019, stressing the need to put an end to subsidy. According to the commission, the amount spent on electricity subsidy should be channelled to other sectors of the economy such as health and education, and power users should learn to pay for what they consume. The Vice-Chairman, NERC, Sanusi Garba, who doubles as a commissioner at the commission, told our correspondent in Abuja that this was why the commission had to provide service reflective tariffs. He said the service reflective tariff, which took effect on…