The streets of Nigeria are coursing with the blood of innocents felled by guilty bullets of state agents. The Nigerian flag has turned scarlet from being a sponge soaking up the living fluid of harmless citizens who thought that the murderers would respect the symbol of the nation and spare their lives. The bodies of citizens are broken, littering the alleys. Young Nigerians who only ventured out with nothing but the flag, their fist and voice to protest against police brutality became victims of the violence they are campaigning against. Who gave the order for the killing of at least…
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Adamu Garba, a businessman, has instituted a $1 billion dollars suit against Jack Dorsey, the CEO and Founder of Twitter International Company, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, over alleged sponsorship of the ongoing #EndSARS Protest across the country. More details soon.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity Surely some revelation is at hand… – W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919) The poem quoted above: “The Second Coming” by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1919) is probably one of the most adapted and quoted poems in world literature, and in politics and culture, to describe moments of anxiety,…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has explained the reason he wants the ENDSARS protest to continue across the country. Governor Ortom said so long the protest continues peacefully, it will compel the government to correct its decades of wrongs in Nigeria. The Governor stated this at the state Government House in Makurdi on Monday, insisting that it was necessary for the country to be restructured. Speaking further, the Benue Governor told newsmen that as a son of an ex-policeman, he undertood for a very long time how poorly the force has been funded. “The police should be well funded, trained and…
Some hoodlums have set a police station ablaze in Orile-Iganmu area of Lagos State. MERIDIAN SPY gathered the incident occurred at about 10:00am on Tuesday. This is yet another public property being destroyed by hoodlums since the ENDSARS protest began 12 days ago. Hoodlums on Monday, similarly set ablaze a police station in Benin, among other destructions, which led the state government to declare a curfew. More details soon.
Amid the ongoing protest by Nigerians against police brutality, some hoodlums have burnt at least 50 cars at Apo Mechanic village in the FCT. MERIDIAN SPY learnt that the cars were displayed for sell when the attackers stormed the area reportedly to disrupt the ENDSARS protest on Tuesday. More details soon.
A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) 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. Sahara Reporters gathered that the incident happened on Sunday when Jobe went to inaugurate a project at Gulu, a village under Rimin Gado Local Government Area. A source said the lawmaker was beaten to a pulp by the youth, who accused him of making false promises for many years. “He was given severe beating by the…
Fulani Kwajafa, a retired commissioner of police, has said he regrets creating the recently dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a subunit of the Nigeria Police Force. Kwajafa said this during an interview with BBC Hausa, stating that the squad completely derailed from its founding objectives. “My name is Fulani Kwajafa. I entered the Nigeria Police Force in 1984. Then robbery was prevalent, this was why Buhari was Head of State. He (Buhari) got a lot of complaint that people were stealing from each other, robbing people — he told me and Mr Inyang, the then IGP, that we must do…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has banned residence in Abuja, the nation’s capital, from any form of protest. This comes after some suspected thugs attacked the ENDSARS protesters during their demostration on Wednesday. More details soon.
The September inflation rate has hits 13.71 percent, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This is 0.49 percent points higher than the rate recorded in August at 13.22 percent. More details soon.
Some suspected thugs have attacked Nigerians protesting against police brutality in Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to The Cable, the thugs, who were armed with cutlasses, invaded the protest venue at Berger junction about an hour after the #EndSARS protesters had convened. They harassed the protesters, including passers-by, destroying vehicles parked in the area. At least five cars were destroyed at the scene, while an unconfirmed number of the protesters sustained injuries. More details soon.
Some Nigerians in Accra, Ghana have joined the march against police brutality and abuse of rights in Nigeria. According to Sahara Reporters, the protesters, who assembled at the forecourt of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra in their numbers, were seen wielding placards with the now-famous inscription, #EndSARSNow. Clad in customised T-shirt reflecting the purpose of the protest, some others were spotted with similar inscriptions: ‘Stop Police Brutality’, ‘PMB Give Us Electricity’, ‘Nigerian Youth Will Not Be Silenced’, ‘Having A Laptop Is Not A Crime, #ENDSARSNow’. Accra is the second city in the Diaspora to join in a physical protest…