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.
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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…
There is an ongoing crisis rocking the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), MERIDIAN has learnt. On Tuesday, the NANS Senate President, Gambo Mohammed, impeached the National President, Comr. Danielson Bamidele Akpan, in a clandestine virtual meeting with 45 members of the association. The Mohammed faction predicated its action on alleged financial misappropriation on the part of the Akpan. The faction also announced the NANS Vice President, National Affairs, Comr. Chidi Ilogebe, as the Acting National President of the organization. Meanwhile, Akpan, on Tuesday, also convened an emergency NANS Congress of senators and stakeholders where they announced the expulsion of…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its 2020 gross domestic growth projections for the Nigerian economy, The Cable reports. In its October World Economic Outlook report released in Washington on Tuesday, the IMF projected that Nigeria’s economy will contract by 4.3 percent in 2020. This is a 1.1 percent improvement from the 5.4 percent that was projected in June and deeper than the 3.4 percent projected in April. Gita Gopinath, IMF chief economist and director of the research department, said oil-exporting countries are battling the health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of low oil…
Juventus footballer, Christiano Ronaldo has tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus disease. The 35-year-old Juventus forward is “well, without symptoms, and in isolation”, a statement by the Portuguese Football Federation (PFF) confirmed on Tuesday. The Portuguese forward who played for his national team against France in the Nations League on Sunday and against Spain in a friendly last week will now miss his country’s next Nations League fixture against Sweden on Wednesday, as well as Juventus’ upcoming matches which include a Serie A clash with Crotone and a Champions League group game against Dynamo Kyiv.
The increase in the pump price of fuel, in 2020, a fall-out of the deregulation of the downstream sector, did not compel the youths of Nigeria to troop out onto the streets. The additional hike in electricity tariffs was not enough to ignite their anger either. The government of the day explained to the people that the additional burden of higher prices was part of the sacrifice they had to make as citizens. The impact of COVID-19 was hobbling the country: loss of revenue, inflation, a weak national currency, foreign exchange crisis. The people showed understanding. The strongest point about…