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The Police Service Commission (PSC) has penciled down 37 former operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), to be dismissed from service.   PSC will also order the prosecution of 24 other ex-operatives for various acts of professional misconduct. These were the highlights of the Report of the Presidential Panel on Reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad set up ...

As the heat of the #EndSARS #EndSWAT protests continue to spread across the length and breadth of Nigeria, protesting youths have organised a candle night procession for fallen heroes of the protest.   Several lives have been lost in the course of making their voices heard during the protest. Some who also lost their lives to police brutality, before the ...

A Texas Republican who called coronavirus a ‘scamdemic’ organized a family party that ended up killing his father-in-law, his partner’s grandmother and left him close to death in hospital.   Tony Green, 43, from Dallas, threw the gathering for six people on June 13 inviting his parents and his partner’s parents. Green is gay and is not married but he ...

Mexico’s former Defence Minister Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested Thursday in the United States, reportedly at the request of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, in connection with a corruption investigation.   Cienfuegos, who was defence chief from 2012 to 2018, was said to have been on a trip with his family when he was detained at Los Angeles airport. “The consul ...

The official twitter handle of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has been hacked and allegedly taken over by decentralised international ‘hacktivist’ group “Anonymous”.   Checks revealed there were mainly tweets and retweets of the #EndSARS protests/campaign against police brutality on NBC page. The group after take-over tweeted: “We #Anonymous are out to expose government’s secrets & dirty files Put an #ENDTOPOLICEBRUTALITY ...

Bisola Alfa, wife of Prophet Alfa Babatunde, the founder of the Sotitobire Miracle Centre Akure, has revealed that the Department of State Services (DSS) searched her underwear while looking for missing Gold Eniola Kolawole, who went missing in the church.   She stated in an interview with BBC Yoruba on Thursday. Recall that a High Court in Ondo State had ...

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has urged Pakistan to assist Nigeria in the capacity building of her Defence Industry.   According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media to President of the Senate, Ola Awoniyi, Lawan made the appeal on Friday while receiving in audience a delegation of the Senate of Pakistan. The Senate President thanked ...

#EndSARS protesters at the Lagos State House of Assembly today rejected food and soft drinks sent by the Chairman of the National Union of the Road Transport Workers in the state, Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo.   The rejection was in reaction to an attack unleashed on the protesters by thugs at Ikeja, on wednesday and thursday. MC Oluomo was ...

#EndSARS protesters who are Muslims today observed their Juma’at prayers at Lekki toll gate and Lagos State House of Assembly road, Alausa respectively.   The protesters also observed the Friday prayers on the road in Abuja. At the Juma’at service held at Governor’s road in Alausa, some Christian protesters watched on while others provided cover for the praying Muslims. During ...

A policeman has disclosed that his wife is taking part in End SARS protests.   In an interview with DailyPost, he expressed sadness at the state of the Nigeria Police. The citizen, a Sergeant, said he joined the Force in 2006. He had his first child in 2017 and now has four kids.   The policeman recalled that his salary ...

                    Veteran Nollywood actress, Idowu Philips aka Mama Rainbow is 78 today. And she shared some stunning new photos of herself on her Instagram page to celebrate her special day.   Happy birthday to her! More photos below….                  

Daddy Freeze has clapped for Pastor EA Adeboye, the founder and leader of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, for endorsing the EndSars protest against police brutality.   On Facebook live, Daddy Freeze said that Adeboye’s behavior is a good development that will encourage protesters as religious leaders support their call. He said the endorsement will encourage his church members ...

Four members of the National Youths Service Corps, who served in Ondo and Osun states, lost their lives in the course of serving their fatherland.   Also, at least 15 corps members in the two states had their service year extended for violating the rules of engagement. Three corps members in Ondo State lost their service year, while nine others ...

  In the midst of the rife EndSARS protest, Nollywood actress Beverly Osu has revealed in a new post about how she was arrested and maltreated by the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Sharing photos of her participation in the ongoing massive demonstration that has rocked the entire nation which has caught the eyes of international tabloids, Beverly Osu held ...

  A member of the All Progressives Congress representing Dawakin Tofa/Tofa and Rimin Gado Federal Constituency in Kano State, Tijjani Abdulkadir Jobe, has been attacked by angry youth in his constituency, who alleged that he did not deliver the dividends of democracy to them.   SaharaReporters gathered that the incident happened on Sunday, October 11,2020, when Jobe went to inagurate ...

Two families who lost their loved ones after police officers fired live ammunition to #EndSARS protesters in Ogbomoso on Sunday have come under unbridled police intimidation, according to People’s Gazette.   The online news outlet reported that the police leadership stepped in after Taiwo Adeoye and Moshood’ Akeju’ Abdulganiu were killed by officers, prevailing on their families not to pursue ...

A retired Commissioner of Police, Fulani Kwajafa, has expressed regrets for establishing the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force.   The excesses of the unit notorious for human rights violation has sparked protests across Nigeria for over one week now with demonstators demanding a reform of the entire police system. Kwajafa while speaking in an interview with BBC ...

A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and repeatedly gang-r.a.ped over a 22-day period on a farm in India.   The girl, who had run away from home after an argument with her parents last month, was waiting for a bus in the eastern city of Cuttack to return to her family when a man offered her a lift home on his ...

A smuggler was caught with 2lb of gold worth £46,000 in his bottom after customs officers spotted his unusual walk at an airport in India.   The man was travelling on a GoAir flight from Dubai into Kerala’s Kannur airport and had hidden the stash of gold inside his own body to avoid paying the 18 per cent tax. It ...

The UN has condemned plans to castrate rapists and paedophiles in Nigeria and called the measures ‘draconian’. In September, the governor of Kaduna state signed a law saying men convicted of r.a.pe would be subjected to surgical castration – with those found guilty of r.a.ping a child under the age of 14 facing the death penalty. The measures followed public ...

A businessman in Argentina killed the mother of his three children before he shot himself dead in a murder-suicide inside the couple’s country club home, authorities say.   Police visited the home following reports of gun shots and found the bodies of Jorge Neuss, 73, and Silvia Saravia, 69, in their bedroom. Saravia had already died by the time cops ...

A lady who also came out to protest has said policemen killed her brother and told her father there was nothing he can do about it, and she said they were right.   She shared photos of herself carrying different placards, while also sharing her story online. Her tweet below…    

  The Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum and Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, has said that the northern governors are against #EndSARS. He made this known while addressing State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa Abuja on Thursday, October 15,2020. According to him, even though President Buhari has already approved the scrapping ...

Pandemonium erupted on Wednesday at the disbanded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) office of the Lagos State Police Command when 30 out of the 250 detainees broke out of their cells and escaped.   This was contrary to claims by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, that the command had transferred all suspects to the detention facility of the ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has frozen the accounts of 15 textile smugglers across the country.   Deputy Governor Corporate Services of the CBN Mr. Edward L. Adamu made this disclosure at a stakeholders meeting of Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) associations in Abuja on Thursday. Adamu noted that CBN’s intervention in the Cotton, Textile and Garments (CTG) industry ...