On Thursday morning, policemen tear-gassed defiant protesters at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos. These protesters carried placards expressing their dissatisfaction with President Bola Tinubu’s administration, marching against hunger and hardship across Nigeria. Protesters gathered at the Lekki Tollgate during the…
#EndSARSMemorial: Why we’re protesting – Falz
Popular Nigerian singer, Folarin Falana, aka Falz, led several protesters to the Lekki Tollgate on Thursday in memory of the shooting that took place at the toll gate on October 20, 2020, which allegedly led to the loss of lives.…
Anxiety as #EndSARS memorial procession holds at Lekki tollgate Thursday
There is palpable tension over plans by some groups and activists to commemorate the second anniversary of 2020 #EndSARS nationwide protests in Lagos State, The Nation has learnt. The activists are planning to gather at Lekki tollgate, Lagos on Thursday…
April fool’s joke? Lekki toll collection resumes April 1
Eighteen months after the bloody end of the #EndSARS protest, Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has announced that toll collection will recommence at the Ikoyi link bridge on April 1. LCC Managing Director, Yomi Omomuwasan announced that commuters will not pay…
Uniform for Journalists: A special birthday shout-out -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Today is my birthday, and I have been specially requested by some buddies to reiterate my call for all Nigerian journalists to have a uniform. Actually, there is this friend of mine, a very evil wag named Vitone, who keeps…
Lagos Endsars Panel releases list of casualties at Lekki Tollgate
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters (Lagos EndSARS Panel), has released a list of forty-eight casualties from the Lekki Tollgate incident. Anyone with emotion will always have goose…
*Air Force officials on BRT lane kill Lagos artist, offer family N200,000 (Punch)*Seme border closure a disservice to south West –Gani Adams (Sun)
Air Force officials on BRT lane kill Lagos artist, offer family N200,000 (Punch) The family of an artist, Ifeanyi Kalu, has been thrown into mourning after personnel of the Nigerian Air Force, accused of driving on the Bus Rapid Transit…
*Sales rep arraigned for allegedly stealing 160 crates of beer (Punch)*#EndSARS Anniversary: celebrities, youths hold memorial procession at Lekki Tollgate (Channels)
Sales rep arraigned for allegedly stealing 160 crates of beer (Punch) A 33-year-old sales representative, Funmi Willoughby was on Wednesday docked in a Badagry Magistrates’Court for allegedly stealing 160 crates of beer worth N357,100. The police charged Willoughby, whose address…
#ENDSARS Memorial: Police arrest 2, screen people to prevent gathering at Lekki Toll Gate
The police in Lagos State early on Wednesday arrested two persons,including a protester, at the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza. The state police command also deployed more than 25 trucks and hundreds of personnel as parts of the measures to prevent…
#EndSARS: Lagos panel ends sitting, compensates 25 victims
The Lagos Judicial Panel probing cases of the dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) abuses and other related matters in the state ended its sitting yesterday. It ended its sitting compensating not lesser than 25 victims of police brutality with cheques…