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In a gory event widely described as Black Teusday, Nigerians witness one of the most violent crackdown on protest since the Enugu Iva Valley Massacre in 1949. Like bloodthirsty Vamps, the army and police on October 20, descended on peaceful protesters with the kind of force and desperation only witnessed in movies and war. We lost our Brothers, Friends, Fathers, Mothers, Sons and Daughters to the uncontrollable bloodlust of a rapacious and highly vindictive ruling elites. Just like yesterday, we saw our friends lying helplessly on the floor, drowned in their own pool of blood. Armed only with flags and solidarity songs, our friends were shot  without mercy and hunted like games for exercising there legitimate right to protest. It was a day when the cries of despair competed with the horrific sounds of bullets.  And as we watch our brothers fall to their death and our sisters drowned in their own pull of blood, we wondered if we had committed any crime for demanding a cou...

File Photo of DSS operatives, used to illustrate story. Nigerians on social media have criticised the Department of State Services for failing to arrest the All Progressives Congress acting Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, over a claim he made that a governor from the North-West is behind banditry in the region. Nabena made the claim while responding to a protest organised by the Peoples Democratic Party calling for the release of the then abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.  File Photo of DSS operatives, used to illustrate story. Nabena said he kept the name of the North-West governor as a secret because of the sensitive nature of the intelligence report. He further alleged that the increasing spate of banditry in the North-West was politically-motivated and was exacerbated by the alleged sponsorship of the governor in question. There are seven states in the Northwest and five of them are under the APC co...

The Police Service Commission has dismissed four senior police officers for misconduct and acts unbecoming of public officers. This was contained in a statement on Sunday by the PSC Head, Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, in Lagos. Ani said that the PSC took the decisions at the 10th Plenary Meeting presided over by its Chairman, Mr Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police on Friday. “A chief superintendent of police was dismissed for discreditable conduct, dishonesty and acts unbecoming of a public officer. “A superintendent of police was also dismissed for conspiring with four others to vandalise a transformer and stealing. The Commission has also directed that the officer should be prosecuted. “The two other dismissed officers included a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP )and an Assistant Superintendent of Police,” he said. Ani said that the DSP led a team that intercepted three Mercedes Benz trucks conveying about 300,000 live cartridges beli...

A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba, has urged the Nigerian government to remove the Arabic language on the Nigerian naira notes. According to the PUNCH, Agbakoba wondered why Arabic inscription is on the naira when Nigeria is not an Islamic state. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria asked the government to replace it with the country’s indigenous languages. He said, “I don’t think Arabic should be on the naira. We are not an Arabic country. I don’t know why that sign should be there. “I asked similar questions when I was a member of the National Judicial Council when the question about the understanding of the Sharia Law came up, and I opposed the then CJN, Aloma Mukhtar that I didn’t see how it should be a requirement for judges of Islamic origin to understand Arabic. I’m a Roman Catholic, does it mean that a Catholic judge must speak Latin? I think these are the sort of things we need to get rid of for a united, independent nation. We are n...

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested two suspected Awawa cult members in Oko-koto, Agege, hours after foiling a traffic robbery around Otedola Bridge on Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. The suspects, Rasak Babatunde, a 22-year-old mechanic and Idowu Wasiu, 16-year-old tailor, were arrested at their hideout. A statement by the Lagos State Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, on Sunday, said the Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, had ordered a raid on the suspected hideouts and black spots across the state, particularly in Agege and its environs. Adejobi mentioned that some of the areas raided included Isokoko, Oke-Koto, Abattoir, Dopemu, Elere, Oniwaya and Pen Cinema, all in Agege. The statement read, “In the same vein, a team of the Rapid Response Squad led by CSP Yinka Egbeyemi, Commander RRS, had foiled traffic robbery on Friday 18th December 2020. The team ran into the suspected armed robbers around 11:00 p.m. at Otedola Bridge inward Ojot...

Fredrick Nwabufo In the evening of February 19, 2018, 110 schoolgirls of Government Girls’ Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yunusari local government of area of Yobe state were abducted by Boko Haram and taken into grisly captivity. Five of the girls died in the hands of their captors. But after weeks of negotiations between the government and the abductors, 104 of the schoolgirls were released except one – Leah Sharibu. Leah refused to succumb to the vile power of her holders. She refused to deny her faith in return for her freedom. She feared God, not man or weapons of death. She held on to her God and refused to kneel before Baal. Boko Haram held her for refusing to convert. In April 2018, Leah sent out a message of despair; a desperate call for help. She said: “I am Leah Sharibu, the girl that was abducted in GGSS Dapchi. I am calling on the government and people of goodwill to intervene to get me out of my current situation.” “I also plead to the members of the public ...

Kaduna State Governor Nasiru Ahmed El-Rufai The Kaduna State Government has limited the service hour of churches and mosques to one hour in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state. This was contained in a statement shared by the Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Sunday. Kaduna State Governor Nasiru Ahmed El-Rufai According to the statement, civil servants from Grade 14 and below are to work from home from Monday, December 21. It read in part, “Further to Covid-19 containment measures announced last week, KDSG has directed civil servants below Grade Level 14 to work from home from Monday, December 21 2020. “Places of worship must enforce facemasks, provide sanitisers, and ensure physical distancing. The number of worshippers will be capped. Congregational worship should not exceed one hour. “Transport operators must reduce capacity to not more than two passengers per row and not more than 50 percent of capacity. “KDSG appeals to all residents to see Covid-19...

Sugar Land police are investigating the deaths of a Greatwood Nigerian couple found in their home Friday morning.  SaharaReporters earlier reported that a Nigerian Doctor in the United States, Dr Ben Okigbo, shot himself to death on Friday. The tragic incident happened at his Greatwood, Texas, United States home. Police haven’t said how they died, but an investigator on the scene told Khou.com that it’s a possible murder-suicide.  “It’s a dynamic situation still right now. We’re getting information in, literally, by the minute, but we’re still standing by waiting to process the scene and determine more,” Sugar Land Police Sgt. Sgt. Matt Levan said. Okigbo reportedly shot his wife, Theresa who was a licensed nurse before killing himself. Both of them hailed from Delta State of Nigeria. Nigerian Medical Doctor Shoots Wife, Kills Self In US | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/x4RvX3wVPO pic.twitter.com/OD3z9V1HoH — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) Decemb...

File Photo used to illustrate story. The Nigerian Army has reportedly lost one soldier in an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State. A source told SaharaReporters that the soldiers were attacked in Garin Kuturu village, along Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway. File Photo used to illustrate story. The insurgents, who appeared in military uniforms, were said to have mounted a roadblock on the highway. “About four soldiers in a civilian vehicle saw the Boko Haram roadblock while returning from a trip and asked the driver to turn back immediately to the Jakana axis. The terrorists engaged the vehicle, making some of them in the vehicle to sustain varying degrees of gunshot wounds. “One of the soldiers died on the way to the military hospital, and others sustained gunshot wounds,” the source said. In the past months, Nigerian soldiers have been targeted by the insurgents. The Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria has caused over 50,000 deaths and displaced millions of ind...

A Nigerian Doctor in the United States, Dr Ben Okigbo, has shot himself to death. The tragic incident happened at his Greatwood, Texas home on Friday. Okigbo reportedly shot his wife, Theresa who was a licensed nurse before killing himself. According to Sugar Land police in Texas, the deceased also attempted to kill his 21-year-old sons by strangling them after shooting his wife. The sons survived the attack with injuries that are not life-threatening. “On Friday morning, a daughter, who doesn’t live at home, went there after she became concerned. She wasn’t injured. “Someone in the house called 9-1-1 Friday morning around 10 a.m. from home in the 1500 block of Brookstone Lane. When officers arrived, they found the couple’s bodies inside. They were both in their 50s. “A neighbour said they were originally from Nigeria but had lived in the Greatwood home for about 20 years. She said she spoke to the wife a few days ago and nothing seemed out of the ordinary,” the police sa...

lControversy has trailed the escape of a notorious armed robber, Adeniyi Ajayi, from the custody of the Lagos State Police Command, SaharaReporters has gathered. It will be recalled that Ajayi, also known for raping his victims, was paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, in August 2020. Speaking on how the suspect was arrested, Odumosu said he had robbed some female and male staff of a company on June 16, 2020. Operatives tracked the phone the suspect stole, and he was arrested in a hotel in the Ijora Badia area of the state. Rather than showing remorse for his action, Ajayi, also known as Ogologo, begged the police to kill him, instead of sending him back to prison. He said his modus operandi was to break into victims’ homes, ordering them to cooperate with him or risk being killed by other members of his gang whom he claimed had surrounded the building. He confessed to having operated at Sabo, Ijora Badia and Lagos Island areas. ALERT: Armed R...

Joe Biden The United States of America will inaugurate its 46th president on January 20, 2021, when the former vice president and Democrat, Joe Biden, takes an oath of office and becomes the occupant of the White House, in Washington DC. Biden, who needed 207 Electoral College votes to win the November 3 elections, secured 306 votes to defeat the Republican candidate and incumbent American president, Donald Trump, who garnered 232 votes. Joe Biden Despite allegations of fraud raised by President Trump and his political allies against Biden’s victory at the polls, it is almost sure that Americans will get a new leader next January. The bright side of the issue was that early this month, the Supreme Court of the United States had rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas in favour of Trump to overturn the election in four states: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Victory at the Supreme Court points in one direction that Democrats will be in control of power at the execut...