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Richard Odusanya The Revelations from Global rights group, Amnesty International on the shootings of unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020 is very mournful. The timeline collates photographs and video footage to confirm that Nigerian Army vehicles left Bonny Camp, a military base approximately a seven-minute drive from the toll gate, at 6.29pm local time on October 20. Amnesty International seems to be answering more question than the Nigerian Goverment and doing so far more intelligently. They used tangible evidences to plot what happened unlike those who asked the killer soldiers to narrate what happened to them. Amnesty International informations has always proven to be more accurate than the goverment and partisan Army. Several Boko Haram attacks, Shiite massacre and the recent Lekki massacre corroborates it. However, Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media & Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, statements on Channels TV, Thursday mornin...

Lagos Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. Lagos House Speaker Mudashiru Obasa has been conducting private and lucrative businesses since he was elected to the post in 2015, Peoples Gazette can report, in yet apparent disregard of extant code of conduct regulations for public officials that barred him from running commercial ventures as a top lawmaker. Financial records of Mr. Obasa’s recently obtained by the Gazette showed how the politician executed a laundry of suspicious transactions using several companies linked to him.  Lagos Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. On October 30, 2018, Mr. Obasa received exactly N51,680,672.91 each into his company De Kingrun Multipurpose Limited account in a string of eleven transactions on exactly the same day, bank documents seen by the Gazette showed. The transactions, totalling N568,487,402.01, were the only activities that reflected on the account throughout that year, indicating that they were proceeds of an unexplained deal exec...

Tension has gripped the people of Oka Akoko in Ondo State following the gruesome murder of a 43-year-old security guard in the community by suspected ritualists.  The guard, Rotimi Olukoju, who worked with a microfinance bank in the town, was found dead on Thursday evening by some residents in a bush path.  Several residents told SaharaReporters that Olokoju was murdered on his way to the farm in the Iwaro area of Oka Akoko of the agrarian community.  They confirmed that Mr Olukoju was beheaded by the suspects while vital organs of his body were also removed and taken away.  According to them, the frightening incident has sent panic across the community. A family member of the late Olukoju, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent on Friday morning, said his corpse had been taken to the mortuary by the police. He explained that the deceased started working at the microfinance bank a few years ago to complement his farming, noting that his death wa...

Catherine Ugorji Catherine Ugorji of the Nigeria Police Force serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), has been selected by the United Nations as one of two runners-up for the prestigious UN Woman Police Officer of the Year award for 2020. Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, in a statement by Oluseyi Soremekun, the National Information Officer of the UN System in Nigeria, said Ugorji exemplifies the best of UN policing. Catherine Ugorji ChannelsTV Of the 1,300 UN policewomen deployed in UN peacekeeping operations, 21 were nominated for the award. Ugorji joined the Nigeria Police Force in 2003 and served as a criminal investigator from the local to regional level, Child Protection Officer, Divisional Crime Officer up to Acting Deputy Commander of the Ogudu Police Division in Lagos. UN Police Advisor, Luis Carrilho, congratulated Ugorji for being chosen as a runner-up and described her leadership ...

Italian Police have arrested about 73 members of a notorious Nigerian mafia group called Arobaga Vikings or Norsemen Kclub International. According to Italian newspaper, ANSA, the group leader, 50-year-old Emmanuel Okenwa aka ‘Boogye’, was also arrested in the operation carried out by more than 200 Italian policemen in Turin and Ferrara. PM News It is organised into local cells called Decks and present in many Italian cities. National leaders of the mafia, which deals mainly in prostitution and drug trafficking were arrested. They included Boogye’, an AfroBeat DJ and the self-styled “King of Ferrara”. In all, 31 people were arrested in Ferrara. A further 43 were taken into custody in Turin including several women, who allegedly ran prostitution rackets. Bologna preliminary investigations judge, Gianluca Petragnani Gelosi said the Vikings’ criminal plan was to “violently annihilate” other Nigerian crime outfits and take over their turf. Interior Minister, Luciana Lamorges...