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Few hours after saying Nigerian youth “are high on drugs all the time”, Nigerians have exposed how Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, member representing Amuwo-Odofin 1 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, used COVID-19 palliatives as birthday gifts. Nigerian politicians, who hijacked the distribution of palliatives to Nigerians during the lockdown, diverted it for personal use and distribution to their cronies and party members. Speaking at the floor of the Assembly, Alli-Macaulay said most of the youth are high on drugs and that is part of the problem that led to the destruction and vandalisation of properties in the state. “It is unemployment that should be the bane or the reason why youths should misbehave, there are unemployment in so many countries of the world, even in the United States. “Even if as graduates, what stops you from becoming a designer or a professional tiler and make a brand of it. There is no excuse for being a hoodlum. “They are high on drugs all the time, mos

Human rights lawyers have said no governor had the legal or statutory power to invade or barge into homes of citizens under the guise of looking for looted COVID-19 palliatives. They described the attempt by some state governors, who have threatened to use security agents to embark on house-to-house search to recover the stolen items as illegal. According to Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, who spoke with SaharaReporters over the issue, the government ought to have been prosecuted for the negligence of their primary duty on people’s welfare and security as stipulated in section 14 of 1999 constitution. He said the action negated Section 37 of the constitution, which protects the privacy of homes, correspondences, letters and secrecy of every Nigerians without the right of any person, authority or government to invade or come into that premises without the consent of the owners. He said, “If governors are saying that people have looted government properties one thin

Abayomi Sadiku, a legal practitioner, has written a petition to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Lagos, explaining how the Nigeria Police Force shielded an officer attached to the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad from prosecution after killing two persons in Lagos. The lawyer said the SARS officer on February 15, 2012, killed the two people identified as Mr Endurance Omonyahuy and Mr Sikiru Amusa after they failed to give him a bribe. He lamented that despite petitions directed to Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, in 2015 and the involvement of Minister of Justice, Abubakar Salami, the officer was never tried and the families of the victims were yet to get justice. He said the police labelled the victims armed robbers as they tried to protect the killer officer. Narrating how it happened, the lawyer said, “In the early hours of the fateful day of February 15, 2012 when Inspectors Niyi Oladapo, Adedeji Olusegun and Corporal Uche Smart, who were part of an anti-robbery patr

A retired Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Boniface Oye-Adeniran, has demanded the sacking of Prof Folasade Ogunsola as the institution’s Acting Vice Chancellor. According to Oye-Adeniran in a message to the Nigerian Government through the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, Ogunsola was allegedly as corrupt as the ousted Vice Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. Listing other corruption cases, the retired don urged the government not to wait for #EndCorruption protest before it acts. He says, “Federal Government should not reinstate the ousted Vice Chancellor and the Acting Vice Chancellor should be removed. She is as corrupt as the ousted VC. She is allegedly currently looting the UNILAG treasury with impunity. “DG of PenCom: The staff of PenCom wrote to the Senate about her corrupt practices. One of the allegations is a constant breach of procurement law. “The government should not wait for anoth

File Photo The police authorities in Katsina State have confirmed the death of 17 persons, including members of a vigilante group and one police officer. They were killed when bandits attacked Diskuru village, Dandume LGA of the state. Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations officer in Katsina, SP Gambo Isah, said the bandits were on a reprisal in the village. File Photo “Last week, the bandits came, and they didn’t find it easy with the villagers, because about three of them (bandits) were killed. “So they went and regrouped and came back, over 200 of them on motorbikes, each carrying AK-47 rifle; they even came with a General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG),” DailyTrust quotes Isah to have said. Isah added that the bandits killed at least 12 of the villagers and set many houses ablaze. He said the DPO of the local government learnt about the situation and called for reinforcement from the military, Operation Sahel Sanity. “Based on the intelligence that we had,