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Concerned residents of Ondo State have joined the nationwide protest to demand the total scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force.  The protesters stormed the streets of Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state to express their feelings. They condemned how SARS operatives had been killing, extorting and violating the rights of innocent Nigerian youth.  One of the protesters, who identified himself only as Abiodun, said that the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad should be condemned by all Nigerians.  “We decided to join the protest to agitate for the total banning of SARS.  “The police unit is a total disgrace to our security and many of them are made up of criminals, who always trample on the rights of innocent citizens.  “We want a total end to their activities and would continue to join the struggle for EndSARS.” Human Rights Police News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaR...

Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has been denied bail by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was invited for questioning earlier on Thursday. SaharaReporters had on Wednesday reported that Obasa and some top accounting officials in the Lagos Assembly were invited by the EFCC for questioning. Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa Obasa honoured the invitation at about 10:00am on Thursday and was grilled for many hours by top officials of the anti-graft agency. Against his expectations, he was denied bail by the EFCC, forcing him to be kept for the night at the commission’s office. See Also Exclusive EXCLUSIVE: How Obasa’s Wife Receives N10m Illegal Monthly Allocation From Lagos Assembly 0 Comments 5 Months Ago SaharaReporters gathered that Obasa’s wife, accused of collecting N10m monthly allowance from the Assembly’s coffers , was invited earlier in the week by the EFCC and was gran...

Ahmed Lawan The Nigerian Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the Economic Sustainability Plan so as to strengthen the economy in view of the resultant impact occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, gave the charge on Thursday in a welcome address delivered during the presentation of the 2021 budget estimate by President Buhari at a joint session of the National Assembly. Ahmed Lawan According to Lawan, there was the urgent need by the government to sustain programmes aimed at economic diversification, not only because of the unpredictable nature of oil revenue but due to recent uncertainties arising from the Coronavirus outbreak. He added that sufficient injection of funds into such programmes would give a boost to the nation’s economy. Lawan said, “The implementation of the 2020 budget has shown a remarkable improvement over the previous years.  “Certainly, the injection of funds for the various programmes and proje...

Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Nigerian Government has condemned the killing of a Nigerian migrant worker in Tripoli, Libya. SaharaReporters had reported that the yet to be identified Nigerian was burnt to death on Tuesday when three Libyans stormed a factory in the Tripoli neighborhood of Tajoura where African migrants were working. Abike Dabiri-Erewa It was learnt that they poured petrol on him and set him on fire but the reason for the crime had not been revealed. Reacting in a statement on Thursday,  Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, condemned the act. The statement reads, “The NIDCOM describes the act as dastardly, bestial and unacceptable. We call on the Libyan authorities to apply the full weight of the law on the suspected killers.” Meanwhile, a statement by the Libyan Interior Ministry has condemned the act, insisting that it was a new wave of violence on migrants in North Africa. The United Nations has also de...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has dared President Muhammadu Buhari to stop them from launching Radio Biafra in Daura, his hometown. The Nigerian Government had on Wednesday approved N654m for the deployment of hybrid spectrum monitoring system that would target illegal frequencies in the Southern part of the country especially, the South-East. According to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, his ministry has uncovered 320 frequencies being used all over the country out of which 106 were illegal. IPOB in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said, “The  attention of the global movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra ably led by our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the approval of N654m by the Federal Government of Nigeria to monitor and crash Radio Biafra  frequencies in the country particularly in South-East and South-South geopolitical zones. “This wicked but futile decision was taken during th...