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Pelumi Onifade A 20-year-old Lagos-based journalist, Pelumi Onifade, was recently shot dead in the custody of the Lagos State Task Force led by Yinka Egbeyemi, SaharaReporters has gathered. Pelumi, who was working with Gboa TV, was arrested by policemen at Abattoir, Oko Oba area of Agege, on October 24 while on official duty and whisked away. Pelumi Onifade Speaking with SaharaReporters, a family member of the deceased said they searched for him to no avail until a senior police officer broke the news of his death to them. “Pelumi went to record the incident of looting at the abattoir as a staff of Gboa TV on Saturday 24/10/2020 only to be arrested by men of the Lagos Task Force and after searching for him aggressively for seven days, we were told that he had been shot dead and his body deposited at the morgue. “We are begging them now to release his corpse and explain to us how he died. Why was he arrested at Agege, only for us to be told that his corpse is at Ikorodu Gene

In the Nigerian polity, there have been heated discussions around the regulation of social media. This discussion was brought to the fore again after the #EndSARS protest, which was anchored largely on social media. The social media was used for mobilization, reaching the international community among many other purposes. It got to a stage that the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter joined the campaign and even asked that donations be made to support the movement. The Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has not hidden his support for regulating the social media, he was reported to have said that Nigeria should be able to regulate the social media whenever they want citing instances of China and other countries. Desmond Elliot although later apologised also called for the regulation of the social media, he was reported to have said that if the social media is not regulated, it may end up ending the country. With many opinions on social media, it is im

Pensioners in Cross River State have taken to the streets to protest the non-payment of their benefits to them by the state government since 2014. The pensioners, who were local government workers, blocked the Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar metropolis as they arranged chairs and sat on the two lanes of the road. Twitter/OgBranded They also chanted songs and carried placards as they asked Governor Ben Ayade to pay them their pensions. It was gathered that the pensioners were among those the state government announced to have been dead. Twitter/OgBranded It was gathered that some retirees, who have not been paid since 2014, have concluded plans to drag Ayade to the National Industrial Court in Calabar. Twitter/OgBranded The decision was reached after a series of protests to Ayade’s office yielded no positive result. Twitter/OgBranded Recently, some workers in the state protested their delisting from the government’s payroll. They said that the state govern

The Amotekun Corps on Monday said it had recovered some items belonging to the police, which were looted by thugs, who unleashed violence after the #EndSARS protest in the state. Mr Adetunji Adeleye, Commandant of the security agency in Ondo State, made the disclosure in Akure, the capital, after arresting six suspects in connection with the looting. Adeleye listed the looted items retrieved from the suspects to include police cardigans, boots, riffles and motorcycles. He explained that the suspects were also linked with the arson on police stations in the state, noting that they had allegedly confessed to the crime. According to him, the suspects would be handed over to the relevant security agency for further investigation and prosecution. Recall that the nationwide protest that saw citizens demanding an end to police brutality and bad governance in the country was hijacked by thugs. The protest was later greeted with violence and looting of items by miscreants in the st

The Nigerian Government has arraigned seven persons on a three-count amended criminal charge alleged to have been involved in the 2017 killing of indigenes of Idumuje-Ugboko community under Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. The seven accused persons were arraigned before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. All accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). The initial charge had involved three persons but following a bench warrant issued by the court, four additional defendants were arrested and added to the charge. The seven defendants were said to have connived with others in May 2017 to unleash terror on the community by burning houses and killing one Cyprian Kumaorun in the town. The defendants were identified as Nwochie Light, Aikhomo Omezi, Okey Ifejoku, Godwin Aniemeke, Nonso Omefe, Dennis Nwoko and Emeka Bidok