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  Former governor of Imo state and Senator representing Imo West in the National Assembly, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has said the #EndSARS movement by the Nigerian youths was a reaction to years of bad leadership in the country. Okorocha, who ...

A lawmaker, Sanai Agunbiade aka SOB, has reacted to the invasion of his residence by hoodlums. Agunbiade is the Majority Leader of Lagos State House of Assembly. On Friday, an irate mob stormed his house in Ikorodu and carted away ...

FCT Minister of State, Ramatu Aliyu has assured Abuja residents that palliatives stored across various warehouses in the city are safe and secured.   She made this known in a press statement issued by Mr. Austine Elemue, her Special Assistant ...

No fewer than 229 people have been arrested in Lagos in connection with the mayhem that engulfed Lagos in aftermath of #EndSARS protest.   The Lagos State Government said it would be prosecuting the suspects who allegedly took advantage of ...

  Liverpool returned to winning ways in the Premier League as Diogo Jota’s second-half goal secured a 2-1 win over Sheffield United at Anfield on Saturday. A controversial draw with Everton last time out followed a 7-2 humiliation at the hands of Aston Villa before the international ...

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State on Saturday afternoon, imposed a 24-hour curfew across the whole state with immediate effect till further notice.   The state government had on Friday lifted a 24-hour curfew earlier declared in the state to ...

  Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, has has decried the wanton looting of public and private assets in the state of Lagos, The PUNCH reports. Tinubu made this known on Saturday when he paid a visit to ...

A 7ft python bit a woman on the bottom while she used the toilet in Thailand and she was rushed to hospital.   Boonsong Plaikaew, 54, was about to finish using the toilet at her home in Samut Prakan, central ...

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has urged young Nigerian celebrities, who identified with the recent #EndSARS peaceful protesters, to make themselves available for negotiation with the Federal Government on the implementation of their five-point demands. The youths ...

No divisional police officer (DPO) has been killed in Rivers State, the police have said. The police spokesperson in the state, Nnamdi Omoni, who spoke with reporters  Friday morning, said the public should disregard the rumour that the DPO in ...

Nigerians demanding the end to police brutality and bad governance in line with the #EndSARS tagline storm the London residence of APC National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Saturday. According to the video posted by African Independent Television, only a few ...

The headquarters of Television Continental popularly known as TVC in Ketu, Lagos which was attacked by hoodlums earlier this week, is now back on air.   Hoodlums had vandalised and set ablazed the station on Tuesday during violence that broke ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Friday extended the ultimatum issued to inmates on the run.   Recall last Monday, amid the violence that erupted after hoodlums hijacked the EndSARS protest in Edo, two correctional facilities were attacked. The next ...

Men around Oluyole, Ibadan, Oyo state this morning invaded the residence of Teslim Folarin, the senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial district and made away with some of the goods in his store.   As seen in the video making the ...

Hoodlums on Saturday discovered and looted a warehouse full of COVID-19 palliatives in Jos, Plateau state.   Same incident happened in Lagos, Oyo, Kwara, Osun, Calabar, Edo and many other states. Some of the items carted away include beans, noodles, ...

Four more police stations have been reportedly burnt down in Anambra State, while a Divisional Police Officer and a station officer were also reportedly killed by rampaging youths.   The burning and killing of the policemen happened on Friday, even ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his regret at not working longer with a former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase.   This was revealed by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in his weekly article. Arase was appointed by former president, Goodluck Jonathan, ...

  The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has recovered looted items worth hundreds of millions of Naira carted away by hoodlums who hijacked the EndSars protest in Uyo, the state capital, on Thursday night.   The Command has also arrested 10  ...

The Presidency, on Saturday disclosed why President Muhammadu Buhari did not mention the Lekki toll gate shooting in his nationwide speech addressing the issue of EndSARS.   Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina disclosed that his principal ...

  Senator Dino Melaye said he stands with the Nigerian Youth, and that he will support them with all resources he has. The Senator  recently shared a video on his twitter handled about the protest. The video shared by him ...

Shehu Sani, a Human rights activist and pan-Africanist, has appelaed to hoodlums who stole the Staff of Office of Oba of Lagos, to return it. This is coming after Princes from the Ruling house in Lagos asked those who stole ...

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment Calabar residents sang the national anthem at the top of their voices after looting covid-19 palliatives DRY. After the looting of the Lagos one and Osun state, Calabar ...

An Indiana man has been arrested on charges of battery and neglect after he admitted to pushing his girlfriend’s three-year-old son down the stairs during an argument about food, shaking and beating him, according to court records.   Antonio Austin ...

Pope Francis has endorsed same-s.e.x civil unions, saying in a documentary that homosexual people are ‘children of God’ and that they ‘have the right to be in a family’.   His approval came midway through a feature-length film, titled Francesco, ...

Five people have died after getting flu shots in South Korea in the past week, authorities said, raising concerns over the vaccine’s safety just as the winter jab programme is expanded because of Covid-19.   Authorities said there was no ...