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These are frightening times for commuters in Lagos, Nigeria’s most urbanised state with a population of 23 million. Anxiety and anger have accompanied the kidnapping and gruesome murder of Oluwabamise Ayanwole during a trip on a state-run Bus Rapid Transit vehicle on February 26. Between the Chevron Bus-stop in Lekki and Oshodi on the mainland, Bamise, 22, lost her life …

Family members told the #EndSARS panel in Abuja that they had not seen the three detainees since their arrest over two years ago. The #EndSARS panel investigating cases of police brutality in Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, to produce three persons said to have been detained since December 2019. Family members had petitioned the …

The PDP submitted the names of Iduma Igariwey and Fred Udogwu to INEC as replacement for Dave Umahi and Kelechi Igwe following Tuesday’s judgement of the Federal High Court. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has submitted replacements for Governor David Umahi and his deputy, Kelechi Igwe, following their removal from office by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday. …

**Urges general public to reclaim vehicles in Police Custody. The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the immediate evacuation of all impounded, accidents and unregistered exhibit vehicles from Police Stations nationwide. The order is predicated on the incessant embarrassing and unprofessional manner in which these vehicles are stacked within police facilities causing nuisance and disgusting sight at …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sacked Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe, following their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the total number of 393, 042 votes …

Nigeria’s minister of education, Adamu Adamu, on Monday, gave a three-month deadline to the newly inaugurated committee saddled with the responsibility of renegotiating the 2009 agreement between the government and the university workers’ unions including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the National Association …

•Meets caretaker members, prunes down convention sub-committees  •Main focus is to put  party back on track for the convention •Govs abandon ex-CECPC leader, declare support for Niger colleague  •Buni, due to arrive back country tomorrow In a move meant to establish and consolidate his leadership, the Niger State Governor and acting National Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) …

The Benin Republic has granted the embattled Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a. Sunday Igboho), a conditional release. According to a statement yesterday, signed by the Communication Secretary to the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, Maxwell Adeleye, Igboho was released by the Benin Republic government to the leader of the group, Prof. Banji Akintoye; a French …

By Femi Falana Part two of this piece published on Friday concluded with reference to a Court of Appeal ruling against vehicle inspection officers violently stopping motorists on public highways. Such conduct sends a wrong signal to the citizens who may adopt such strong-arm tactics as a means of settling disputes”.  In Femi Falana v Attorney-General of the Federation, the …

The simmering leadership crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress for several months took a different dimension on Monday in Abuja as most of the governors were said to have abandoned the Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, who had been steering the affairs of the APC since June 2020. Abubakar Bello and Mai Mala Buni …