Beyond the Headlines
President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday took stock of the flood situation in the country and authorized the dispatch of special teams to deliver urgently needed assistance to 12 states most ravaged by the seasonal rains. The states to receive the teams conveying reinforcement of reliefs and other equipment through the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, are: […]
Following intelligence received on criminal activities, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has arrested a group of people involved in the advertisement and sale of completed academic projects to students online. These persons allegedly package and market plagiarized academic projects to desperate students to assist them unlawfully fulfil the requirement for […]
Nigerian music star, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has voiced out his displeasure over the death of two protesters earlier on Saturday in Osun State. Two people have allegedly killed after some hoodlums who infiltrated #EndSARS protesters attacked the state governor’s convoy. Oyetola had joined protesters on Saturday, walking with them from Alekuwodo area […]
University students under the aegis of the National Association of University Students said they had run out of patience as a result of the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The students said they would express their displeasure with the lingering strike by embarking on a nationwide protest starting from Tuesday. They […]
The National President of Pentecostal Ministers Forum (PMF), Bishop Chidi Anthony, is a good friend of the Police. Recently, he has been decorating senior police officers with awards for distinguished services. However, he reveals that members of his forum were never exempted from police brutality, in this interview with TAI ANYANWU You have been decorating […]
•Says protest against police brutality’ll make Nigeria better The Pan Igbo sociocultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has declared that the ongoing demonstration by Nigerian youths against police brutality, tagged #EndSARS, is for the good of the country and should be supported by all, even as it alleged that the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had killed […]
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has described the deteriorating situation of Nigeria as irredeemable, adding the widespread #EndSARS protests across the country as an awakening for all Nigerians. The separatist group in a statement signed by its national leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu said, “reality just dawned on Nigerians, particularly […]
Mr Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, has directed the reopening of both Eko and Marina Bridges to traffic in Lagos on Monday. Fashola gave the directive as the ministry was expected to have concluded the first phase of repair works on the bridges in Lagos by mid-night on Sunday. Mrs Blade Akinola, the […]
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi says President Muhammadu Buhari will be commissioning the Lagos-Ibadan railway in January 2021 to improve movement for cargoes and passengers in the country. Amaechi made this known during an oversight visit from Lagos to Ibadan to inspect the ongoing construction of the standard gauge in Ibadan on Saturday. […]
Youths in their hundreds took over some roads in Kaduna on Saturday, demanding an end to insecurity, kidnapping and the alleged sins of police SARS. They said posterity would not judge them right if they failed to join their counterpart to condemn “bad governance” and #ENDSARS. Some of them were displaying placards with inscriptions like […]
