Beyond the Headlines
As the anti- Special Armed Robbery Squad (SARS) protests continue in parts of Nigeria, the Federal Government is working assiduously to meet the demands of the protesters. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesters’ demand includes the immediate release of those arrested and justice for victims of police brutality. The protesters are […]
Some thugs at the early hours of Saturday attacked #EndSARS protesters in Osogbo capital of Osun State. Hoodlums brandishing cutlasses attacked the #EndSARS protesters at the popular Ola-Iya junction. One of the protesters identified as Oloye was injured in the attack. This is the second time the protesters will be facing hoodlums attacks. Last Thursday, […]
A mother confessed Saturday to killing her three young daughters in an apartment in Vienna, Austrian police said, without giving a motive. The 31-year-old called the emergency services in the early hours saying she wanted to kill herself, and when police turned up they found the bodies of an eight-month-old baby and a three-year-old girl. […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the organisers of the protest against “insecurity and bad governance”. In a statement on Saturday, Abdulazeez Suleiman, spokesman of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), said the arrested persons were invited to the office of the secret police for questioning but detained afterwards. He identified those arrested as […]
The Police Command in Lagos State has said that no life was lost to the accident which involved two tankers laden with Petrol and a container that occurred on Otedola Bridge, along the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway in the early hours of Saturday. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a statement released […]
Sperm counts have dropped over the years. What used to be regarded as “normal” sperm count is going down. Even the World Health Organisation, WHO, and other reputable health bodies are aware that men are increasingly becoming infertile. Male fertility is declining to the extent that men are today half as fertile as men of […]
The world has moved closer to studying quantum brain going by the work by the lead-author Nigerian scientist Academician Dr Philip Njemanze MD from the International Institutes of Advanced Research and Training, Chidicon Medical Center, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria and his German collaborators led by Prof Dr Peter Brust from the Department of Neuroradiopharmacy at […]
“Every 5a.m, they will wake us up to carry the corpses they killed in the night” FOR residents of Anambra State, the fear of Awkuzu Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, in Oyi local government area, located at kilometer 38 along the Enugu –Onitsha expressway in the state is the beginning of wisdom. Those who had […]
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has kicked against the renewed calls by some North-East elders for the sack of Service Chiefs in the wake of recent nationwide #EndSARS protest by some youths. The Head of the Coalition, Mr Shina Loremikan, spoke against the call at a media briefing in Lagos on Friday. The News […]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has finally spoken on the ongoing #EndSARS protests across the country and the rest of the world. There have been calls for the vice-president, who is a professor of law, to speak up on the demand by the youth to end police brutality in Nigeria. On Friday night, the vice-president apologised to […]
