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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has ordered immediate nationwide deployment of anti-riot police unit – the Police Mobile Force (PMF) – to protect lives and property of all Nigerians and secure critical national infrastructure across the country. The IGP has also ordered massive deployment of Police operatives to strengthen security around Correctional facilities nationwide. The orders …

Edo State Government has said that the 24-hour (round-the-clock) curfew imposed in the state on October 19, 2020 subsists and is active till further notice. As such, everyone is expected to remain indoors, Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser, Media & Communication Strategy to Edo State Governor said in a statement on Tuesday. Security agencies have been deployed to the streets to ensure full …

“The protest cannot be said to be peaceful when innocent people are losing their lives and Nigerians are being prevented from going to their places of work where they earn their living.” The Federal Government says it has received petitions from various groups dissociating themselves from the #EndSARS protests. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this in …

The NGF says “governors have endorsed the demands by demonstrators for improved governance”. The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), on Monday, said it would address the demands of Nigerian youth protesting police brutality and harassment across the country. For the past two weeks, thousands of youth have been on the streets demanding an end to police brutality, disbandment of the dreaded Special Anti-Robbery …

Six of those killed resulted from the clash between suspected hoodlums masquerading as protesters and armed personnel at the Benin Correctional Centre and Oko Medium Security Prisons, as the hoodlums attacked the prisons and freed hundreds of inmates. The casualty in Delta was a 12-year-old protester who fell from the lorry he clung on to and died instantly, while that …

Criminal charges the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on Monday against six officers of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate’s (GRU) Military Unit 74455 highlight once again Russia’s continuing disruptive, destructive, and destabilizing activities in cyberspace. As the DOJ and FBI make clear, this Russian military intelligence unit unleashed some of the most …

CNN – Six Russian military officers have been charged in what the Justice Department says was a hacking scheme to attack several major foreign powers, former Soviet republics and subvert investigations into nefarious activities by the Kremlin. The alleged cyberattackers hacked into software using destructive malware to black out thousands of computers and cause nearly $1 billion in losses, and …

Edo State Government on Monday set up a 12-man Judicial Panel of Inquiry into circumstances surrounding the #EndSARS protests in the state. Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., in a statement, disclosed that the Panel has been given 90 days to complete the assignment. According to him, the Panel was set up “In response to the yearnings of Nigerian …

Edo State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew across the state till further notice. This was contained in a statement issued on. Monday by Osarodion Ogie Esq., Secretary to the State Government. He said: The curfew is to take effect from 4pm, October 19, 2020.Hide original message This decision has become necessary because of the very disturbing incidents of vandalism and attacks …

By David Em’ya Benin Prison along Sapele Road in Edo State capital,  on Monday was broken by inmates, aided by Protesters in the  #EndSarS Protest and many of them escaped.  Central Benin also known as Oba Ovanramwn Kings Square suddenly turned violet after hoodlums hijacked the hitherto peaceful protest and unleashed mayhem on the city. Details later.