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The Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced the setting up of a N200 million fund to compensate families of victims of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) killings. Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this while addressing the EndSARS protesters at the Lagos House of Assembly gate, Alausa, Ikeja. The compensation …

The Oyo state Deputy Governor, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan has joined the #EndSARS protest stating that he was also a victim of police harassment twice, sunrisebulletin.com reports. The deputy governor who made this disclosure at the state secretariat in Ibadan on Tuesday (today) was seen carrying placards amidst the protesters. Engr …

Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) has announced the formation of a new unit in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). The new unit of the force named, Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) replaces the scrapped Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) dissolved on Sunday. This was made known in …

Proceed from value added tax will be used to subsidise electricity tariff, according to agreement reached between Federal government and labour. The subsidy could be as much as N10.20 per kilowatt hour distributed across bands A, B and C for up to three months, said minister of state for labour …

Spokesperson of House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu has said Nigerians are now afraid of policemen than they are of robbers. Newsextra24 reports that the Reps member while responding to the ongoing nationwide protest against Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) a unit of the Nigeria Police Force, said the mode …

YOU CANMOT FACE UNARMED CITIZENS WITH GUNS DURING A PEACEFUL PROTEST : FORMER PRESIDENT ATIKU SPEAKS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X06efxy7Hjs

Public schools: Tell me the truth, Zulum begs at meeting with Borno’s 84 principals Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Sunday hosted 84 principals of all public secondary schools in the State but at the beginning, Zulum conditioned them to be honest in telling him the realities of challenges in the …

The university non- academic workers have warned that the Federal Government cannot use the payment platform designed by the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to pay them, even as they have rejected the new platform introduced by the Federal Government, the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Rather, …

Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) on Monday enjoined Nigerian youths to put an end to the #EndSARS protest in the country following the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari and the disbandment of the unit by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP). Sagay who …

LAGOS – Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education, has said that President Mu­hammadu Buhari had so far demonstrated that he doesn’t possess the needed tempera­ment to lead a diverse nation like Nigeria out of its present challenges. Speaking with Daily Inde­pendent, Ezekwesili, a former presidential candidate who is …