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Breaking: Ladipo Spares Parts Market In Isolo Is On Fire {Video}

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Ladipo Spares parts Market in Isolo Lagos is currently on fire. The cause of the fire is still unknown at time of by filling this report. Details later....... See Video Below:

EndSARS promoter, Modupe Odele threatens to go on exile as immigration comes for her again

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Again, Nigerian lawyer and #EndSARS promoter, Module Odele, has disclosed that the Nigerian Immigration Service came after her as she planned to travel out of Nigeria Wednesday. Ms Odele had provided legal support to those who were arrested while clamouring for an end to police brutality and bad governance. It would be recalled that at the beginning of November, the immigration prevented her from flying to the Maldives to celebrate her birthday. The immigration had denied preventing her from travelling but a foul play was suspected because it came at a time when bank accounts belonging to promoters of the movement were frozen. Again, Ms Odele took to her Twitter page Thursday morning to reveal that the immigration officers stopped her for a “secondary clearance.” She wrote: “So shocking that these people stopped me again and took my passport for “secondary clearance” again. Tbh I didn’t think they would even try it. But here we are. “I had to make a call to be allowed to pass through. ...

Dj Switch mourns Lekki massacre victims, two months after

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Obianuju Catherine Udeh, known as Dj Switch in the music industry, is not happy that two months after the Lekki massacre, justice has not yet being done. In a late Sunday tweet, the celebrity Dj, who claimed to be at spot of the massacre two months ago, sounded very unhappy. "Today marks 2 months since #LekkiMassacre no answers,no charges & no arrests! A government that is quick to impose laws that further enslave us rather than elevate us. #endsars #EndBadGoveranceInNigeria" Switch cried out. On October 20 this year, peaceful protesters who had occupied the Lekki tollgate in order to drive home their demands for a better Nigeria, were reportedly shot at by military officers.  Ever since the ugly incident, both the Lagos State government and the military, have been involved in blame games regarding the shooting. The Lagos State government at first claimed not be aware of the military intervention in Lekki, but when the military voiced out to say the Lagos State government...

Caterer whose bank account was blocked for actively participating in #EndSARS protest accuses Immigration of denying her passport renewal

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The Federal Government has continued its clampdown on  #EndSARS  protesters by refusing to issue a passport to a caterer who provided food to protesters and helped in sourcing for funds for a wounded protester. The caterer, Mosopefoluwa Odeseye, whose account had been frozen by the Central Bank of Nigeria in October, was denied a passport by the Nigeria Immigration Service on Wednesday. Odeseye said in a tweet that she had gone to renew her passport at the Alausa Passport Office, Lagos, but was informed that she had been blacklisted and was asked to proceed to Abuja. She tweeted, “First, it was Central Bank locking up all my bank accounts, now it is Nigerian immigration not issuing my passport at Alausa! To what end, Nigeria? To what end? I applied for a re-issue at Alausa, captured some days ago and asked to come pick today then I’m told that I have been blacklisted?” The CBN had in October asked banks to freeze accounts of some persons involved in controlling ...

#EndSARS Protests: NPA Incurred ₦807m Loss To Vandalism - Hadiza Usman

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The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Usman says the agency has incurred about a billion naira loss after hoodlums vandalized its office in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests which rocked the country. She disclosed this on Monday during a budget defence session before the Senate Committee on Maritime in the National Assembly. According to the NPA boss, the hoodlums who attacked the agency set twenty-seven vehicles ablaze, burnt a portion of the buildings and looted office equipment. She said the burnt portion was different from the amount that would be spent to replace the 27 vehicles set ablaze by the vandals while three others were stolen. “As it relates to every other aspect of the building, we had made a detailed submission, attaching a bill of quantity of ₦807 million as the cost of rehabilitating the aspect of the building that were set on fire,” she said. “As it relates to our motor vehicles, 27 vehicles were set on fire. Three vehicles were sto...

Lekki Shootings: #EndSARS Protesters Make Fresh Demands From Judicial Panel

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The counsel for the #EndSARS protesters, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana has asked the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters to summon Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and 12 others. He said this in a December 9 application to panel chairman, Judge Emeritus Doris Okuwobi. The application said the proposed invitees could provide information concerning the Lekki shootings of October 20 or its aftermath. The Nigerian Army has denied #EndSARS protesters allegations that it shot at, injured and killed several peaceful protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate. Besides the governor, the others named in the application include Minister of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN; Chief Executive Officer of Loatsad Promomedia Ltd, Mr. Seyi Tinubu; Managing Director, Oriental Hotel; Divisional Police Officer, Maroko Police Station and Lekki Concession Company Officials in charge of information Technology Int...

#EndSARS: Ondo Police vows to use force Against Protesters

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The Ondo state Police command has warned youths in the state not to try to return to the streets in form of protest, adding that such would be resisted frontally. The state Police PRO, Mr. Tee-leo Ikoro said the command was prepared to ensure nothing of the like that happened during the last protest repeats itself for whatever reason. There was anxiety in the state as news of the restart of the #EndSARS protest filtered in from Osun and Lagos States. Youths in their hundreds had poured into the streets on Monday, demanding the end of police brutality. They also blocked the entrance into the Osun State House of Assembly, demanding an audience with the speaker of the House. Residents of Akure, the state capital, were apprehensive and were expecting another outbreak of the protest, but nothing happened as the day rolled by. Although many went about their normal duties, police and other security patrols were regular across the major streets of the city. “Why should there be another EndSARS...

#EndSARS: Fresh protest is to instigate coup – Northern youth

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The Northern Youth Leaders Forum have alleged that the second wave of  #EndSARS   were attempts to pave the way for a military incursion by way of a coup and possible disintegration of the country, It says it will mobilize youths in 19 northern states and Abuja to resist the second wave of the   #EndSARS   protest. The youth group, an umbrella body of 42 northern youth groups, said it reached the resolution at the end of the National Executive Council meeting of the  body in Gombe. The Chairman of the group, Elliot Afiyo, said the group was prepared for a violent confrontation with   #EndSARS  protesters in any part of the North. He said, “From the intelligence reports we received from our zonal and state coordinators and also from some of our members in the security circle, the second wave of these protests as planned by their sponsors, should not be allowed to take place in any of the northern states and Abuja. We are in possession of credible intell...

(Video) FG Sponsored Hoodlums Who Disrupted #EndSARS Protest, Aisha Yesufu

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Co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement Aisha Yesufu has raised a fresh allegation against the government, saying it sponsored hoodlums who disrupted the #EndSARS protest against police brutality in October. The protest began peacefully until hoodlums took over and began attacking private and public property. Mrs Yesufu told Arise Tv in an interview on Tuesday that the government was to blame for the destruction that followed the protest. “#EndSARS protest was never hijacked by hoodlums. Government brought in hoodlums. Why is the media so scared to say this simple fact,” she asked in a video released after she lost internet connection with the broadcast station. Yesufu has been one of the vocal voices for the #EndSARS campaign. There have been calls in some quarters for the resumption of the #EndSARS protest. Police and the military were deployed to Lekki toll gate in Lagos on Monday to forestall the resumption of protest. The protest, however, held in Osun and Abuja.

Don't Be Distracted, #EndSARS Movement Tells Protesters

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The Osun State EndSARS Movement has urged protesters not to relent in their demands for good governance, an end to police brutality and other inadequacies of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government. The group, in a statement by its spokesperson, Olawale Bakare; Mobilisation Secretary, Ogunleye Olushayo; and Organising Secretary, Olawale Ogunruku, commended the resilience and doggedness of the youths who stormed the streets of Osogbo earlier on Monday. The statement read, “Although we expressly commend the line of demands of today’s protest, we also wish to inform the general public to beware of state-sponsored individuals who might be sent to keep public agitations low and tasteless. “They would only pretend to fight alongside the genuine agitators, but they are secretly working with the government to keep the people’s voice low and divided. We enjoin the general public to watch out for “contract-protesters” who are only acting the scripts of their paymasters. “Again, we would li...

President Buhari issues strong warning as #EndSARS protesters hit streets again

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Amid the reported return of the #EndSARS protests, President Buhari has issued a fresh statement The Nigerian leader said any illegal acts perpetrated behind "lawful" protests will be punished according to the law Some youths have reportedly returned to the streets for fresh protests in Osun state while the police have been deployed to Lekki Toll Gate plaza in Lagos President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a strong warning that any act of hooliganism perpetrated in the guise of protests will be decisively dealt with. The Nigerian leader " warned that any act of hooliganism hiding behind lawful and peaceful protests will be dealt with decisively to ensure peace and stability in the country." Rabsreporters.blogspot.com gathers that this was revealed in a statement released by the presidency on Monday, December 7.

Security operatives storm Lekki tollgate over #EndSARS protest, phase 2 as protest holds in Oshogbo

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Security operatives have besieged the Lekki tollgate in Lagos to prevent further  #EndSARs   Protest .  Soldiers and policemen were said to have arrived at the tollgate in four trucks on Monday morning. Commuters said that the gun-wielding security operatives placed themselves in strategic locations around the area seeing that youths have started gathering around the area to resume the protest. In October, the #EndSARS protest took place at Lekki and at different locations in the state for more than two weeks. It also took place in some other states in the country. Unfortunately, the protest was later hijacked by hoodlums which led to loss of lives and property. On October 20, soldiers invaded the Lekki tollgate and allegedly shot some of the protesters. In November, Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector-General   of Police (IGP), said the force would never allow another type of #EndSARS protest again, adding that the police are ready to face anyone who partic...

#EndSARS: Police vow to suppress any gathering or protest in Lagos

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My leg was amputated after I was shot at Lekki Toll Gate — 23-year-old boy weeps

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Twenty-three-year-old Olalekan Faleye, a survivor of the shooting that attended the peaceful #ENDSARS protest at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, says he has become an amputee after the gunshot injuries he sustained to the leg on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. EyewitnessMedia gathered that he had undergone surgical amputation of his bullet-ridden right leg. Speaking exclusively with newsmen a few days after he was discharged from the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, Olalekan said until the Lekki shooting, he had temporarily worked as a labourer with a construction company in Ikoyi to raise money for his ‘freedom’ as an apprentice cobbler. He also planned to use whatever was left after his freedom ceremony to rent a shop where he could carry out his cobbler trade. “Any time we had little or nothing to do at the construction site, I would join the #ENDSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate to demonstrate against Police brutality and bad governance. “I recalled attending the protest on thre...

Court strikes out SERAP’s suit against Lai Mohammed, NBC over #Endsars coverage

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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday struck out a suit filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the Minister of Information and Culture,   Lai Mohammed   and the National Broadcasting Commission(NBC). The Court said in its ruling that SERAP has no locus standi in the case as it’s not part of the matter. The presiding judge also described the case brought before it by SERAP as “a mere academic exercise.” SERAP had a few weeks ago approached the Court to stop the N9million fine imposed on some broadcast stations for infractions. The right group asked the Court to declare arbitrary, illegal, and unconstitutional the N9 million fines imposed on Arise TV, AIT and Channels TV (N3million each) for their coverage of the End SARS protests. In the suit, FHC/ABJ/CS/1436/2020 filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, the plaintiffs are seeking an order setting aside the fines and any other penal sanction unilaterally imposed by Mohammed and ...

#EndSars: Lawyer tells panel to summon Fashola over Lekki tollgate camera

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A lawyer representing #EndSARS protesters at the Lagos state Judicial Panel on Inquiry, Adesina Ogunlana, has called on the panel to invite the Minister of Works and Housing,   Babatunde Fashola , over the camera he found at the Lekki tollgate on Sunday, October 25,  rabsreporters   reports. Fashola had accompanied some South-West governors and Ministers to Lagos to commiserate with the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, over the massive destruction of lives and properties that took place in the wake of the hijacked #EndSARS protest.  While taking a tour of some of the public facilities destroyed, Fashola found a camera which he said would help in the investigation. At the resumed hearing of the panel on Friday, November 27, Ogunlana told the chairman of the panel, Retired Justice Doris Okuwobi, that the former Minister needs to be summoned so he can explain the circumstances in which he found a camera at the tollgate five days after the shooting incident. He a...

Lagos Panel Of Inquiry Commences Further Hearing From LCC, Others

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The Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution set up by the Lagos State Government for victims police brutality and extrajudicial violence has commenced another sitting. There are three hearings on the panel’s list for today, one of them being a further hearing of the Lekki Concession Company’s side of the events of the Lekki Tollgate. Managing-Director of the LCC, Yomi Omomuwasan is being interrogated by the lawyer to the #EndSARS protesters, Adeshina Ogunlana. Details later..

N180m Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Ex-Imo State Commissioner

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office on Thursday, November 26, 2020, arraigned a former Commissioner of Transport and Chairman of Imo state Transport Company, Prince Lasberry Okafor Anyanwu, before Justice E.F Njemanze of the Imo State High Court for alleged fraud. According to a statement released by the antigraft agency, Anyanwu who served in the Rochas Okorocha’s administration is being prosecuted on four-count charges, bordering on conspiracy, abuse of office, stealing and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N180 million. According to our reporters Trouble started for the defendant following a petition in which it was alleged that he used his position as Imo State commissioner for Transport to transfer the ownership of the state’s transport company to his private company, Oma Oil/ Industries Ltd. Investigation by the  EFCC  showed that the defendant through an opaque concession agreement with the former governmen...

Lekki Shooting: CNN Clarifies Tweet On ’38’ Nigerians Being Killed

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Cable News Network, CNN, has clarified a tweet in which it said that 38 people were killed during the EndSARS protest at   Lekki toll gate   in Lagos. The news Network had tweeted on October 23 that the 38 people died after the Nigerian Army opened fire on protesters. “At least 38 people were killed in Nigeria on Tuesday when the military opened fire on peaceful protesters But the President failed to address the carnage during his speech on Thursday, drawing criticism from protesters who accuse him of failing to show empathy & unify the nation,” the tweet read. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had reacted to the alleged claim of casualty and demanded proof from  CNN . The Federal government and the Lagos state government have repeatedly denied reports that mass killings took place at the Lekki tollgate on October 20. While the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu insists that just two people were killed, the Nigerian Army says nobody was killed w...

#Endsars: We are not panicking – FG reacts as UK threatens sanctions

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Rabsreporters reports that,  The Minister of Information and Culture,   Lai Mohammed , has said the Federal Government is not panicking over the demand for sanctions by the United Kingdom lawmakers. Reacall that on Monday, UK lawmakers debated over alleged human rights abuses during the #EndSARS protest in Nigeria and demanded sanctions for government officials and security agents. Such sanctions could include visa ban, freezing of assets and stopping the funding and training for the Nigeria Police Force. The debate was sequel to a petition started by Silas Ojo which garnered over 200,000 signatures. Responding on behalf of the UK government, the MP for Aldridge-Brownhills, Wendy Morton, who is also the Minister at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, said the UK government was communicating with the President’s Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. “It is a long-standing practice not to speculate on future sanctions ...