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Armed men on Tuesday launched an attack on Ma-zakki Village in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing Haruna Kuye, district head of Gidan Zaki and his son. The widow of the district head also sustained injuries from machete cuts while her daughter had a gunshot wound on her finger. Samuel Aruwan, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, confirmed the incident in a statement. He said, “Security report stated that the act was carried out by about five men wielding AK-47 rifles and machetes, who also tried to burn the house and a vehicle. “Troops in collaboration with other security agencies are carrying out investigations and trailing the assailants. “Governor Nasir el-Rufai has condemned the killings as evil and violation of the sanctity of the human lives by enemies of peace who must be fished out and made to face the wrath of the law. “The governor who condoled the Kuye family and the Atyap Traditional Council, prayed for

Officers of the Nigeria Police Force have blocked the road leading to African Shrine, Ikeja, Lagos, in a bid to prevent a meeting on #EndSARS protest from taking place. The meeting, which was organised by Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, was originally scheduled to be held on Tuesday at the African Shrine. There are over 20 police vans with armed policemen present to prevent people from accessing the venue. Recall that the Lagos State Police Command on Monday threatened to close the African Shrine if the meeting went ahead. See Also #EndSARS Lagos Police Threatens To Close African Shrine Over Hosting Of Meeting On #EndSARS 0 Comments 14 Hours Ago In a letter to the Kuti family and manager of the facility, the police said the programme was not allowed and will be tagged a deliberate action to sabotage the restoration of peace in Lagos. The police cited the recent violence arising from the #EndSARS protest as its reason for ordering the suspensi

Chinua Achebe The great man, deservedly, regarded as the father of the 20th century Africa novel and literature, Chinua Achebe, would have turned 90 years old — in a few days. He was born November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, eastern Nigeria. But the man best known for the masterpiece novel Things Fall Apart in 1958, died on March 21, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts.  Prof. Achebe, Africa’s most acclaimed and fluent writer of the English Language, our pathfinder, the intellectual godfather of millions of Africans and lovers of the fine art of good writing, was only 28 years when he wrote the classic, Things Fall Apart, in 1958, long before I was born. In 1958, Achebe’s first novel, he told the conflicted story of Okonkwo, communal life, clash of faiths, dynamics of the clash of cultures and more, set in pre-colonial and colonial Umuofia, of the Igbo nation. Chinua Achebe In the assessment of US former President Barack Obama, it is “A true classic of world literature… a masterpiece tha

Officers of the Nigeria Police Force have taken over the Yaba Magistrate Court where Eromosele Adene is to arraigned. Adene was arrested from his house for partaking in the recent #EndSARS protest in Lagos. Armed officers were drawn from different divisions as they restricted movement around the court. Adene was brought before the court 10 days after he was arrested. He was charged on offences bothering on cyber stalking and conduct likely to cause breach of peace. The police is seeking an order of the court to detain him for another 30 days. #EndSARS Police News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/35EjuU3 via EDUPEDIA

Car hit by bullets, one of the passengers was injured. Passer-by hit by a bullet in the waist. Two corpses were dropped at the entrance of the Federal Medical Centre. Some of the receipts Grand Hotel in Asaba where Police shot at peaceful #EndSARS protesters. The recent #EndSARS protest in Nigeria ended on a bloody note with police, soldiers and government-sponsored thugs unleashing terror on peaceful and armless protesters. While the killings at Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos, received the major spotlight, killings happened in other parts of the country, also. Asaba town, Delta State, also recorded shootings and killings of young people protesting police brutality under the #ENDSARS agitation. On October 21, as protesters gathered to continue their peaceful demonstration, little did they know that the police had connived with thugs to open fire on them. SaharaReporters gathered that at about 7:00pm that day, officers from A Division of Asaba Police Command together