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The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality has concluded that the Nigerian Army shot and killed unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020. The report of the Panel which was submitted to Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU at the Government House in Ikeja, said that the manner of assault and killing could in context be described as a massacre. The Panel also fou...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Anambra State, has described the recently concluded governorship election as a huge fraud. The state Chairman of the Party, BASIL EJIDIKE, said this during a press conference in Awka, the state capital, while reacting to a statement that the APC in the state has congratulated the Governor-elect, CHARLES SOLUDU. According to him, the party is la...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has warned the Federal Government that rising electricity and cooking gas prices will worsen the economic hardship of Nigerians. These were among the resolutions passed by the Christian Association of Nigeria at its 4th quarterly National Executive Council meeting at the National Christian Centre in Abuja.  CAN also criticized the go...

About 51,000 residents of Nasarawa State comprising orphans, almajiri children and the aged have been enrolled in the State’s Health Insurance Scheme.  Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Health Insurance Agency, Dr GAZA GWAMNA, made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen on the agency’s programmes in Lafia, the state capital.  He explained that the...

The six persons abducted from the University of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have regained freedom. They were rescued about three days after gunmen attacked the staff quarters of the university in Gwagwalada Area Council of the nation’s capital. In a statement today, the spokesman for the FCT Police Command, JOSEPHINE ADEH, confirmed that the victims were res...

NIGERIAN champions, Rivers Angels finally departed Lagos for Cairo, Egypt yesterday, where they will take part in the first-ever CAF Women’s Champions League, which begins today. The Angels were initially billed to travel to Cairo on Tuesday but the team could not as visas were not issued to some of the players. The travelling team comprises 24 players and nine officials.&nb...

Lagos State Governor, BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU has said that only 19 names of missing persons have been registered by various families since the Ikoyi building collapse. The Governor said this while updating the press on the steps being taken to rescue the victims. He also noted that the ongoing corona inquest on the bodies evacuated from the site was expected to be concluded today afte...

The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria says it is ready to partner the Ogun state government in the enforcement of compulsory insurances to achieve its economic goals. This was made known by the president and chairman of the institute, MUFTAU OYEGUNLE, who led members of the council on a courtesy call to the state governor, DAPO ABIODUN in his office at Oke Mosan, Abeokuta M...

Candidates in the Anambra governorship election has signed a peace accord in Awka, the state captial. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor MAHMOOD YAKUBU, was present at the ceremony, which was facilitated by the National Peace Committee. The election which is slated for Saturday has seen Anambra, as in much of the South-East, witness several...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has pledged that Nigeria will cut its emissions to net zero by the year 2060. The President made this known in a speech delivered at the United Nations COP26 Leaders’ Summit held in Glasgow, Scotland. According to a statement signed by his spokesman GARBA SHEHU, President BUHARI noted that attaining national and global climate change goals will req...