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South-west governors and monarchs have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to overhaul the nation’s security infrastructure. This is coming on the heels of the #EndSARS protests which led to violence and looting, particularly in Lagos state. At an event hosted by south-west governors in Lagos on Sunday, Buhari, represented by Ibrahim Gambari, his chief of staff,

An informal settlement on Kano Street, in the Ebute Meta area of Lagos Island has been gutted by fire. As of the time of filing this report on Sunday, the cause of the fire incident had yet to be known but emergency responders had been deployed in the area. Confirming the incident, the Director-General, Olufemi

The Zamfara state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that Senator Kabiru Marafa remained suspended, insisting that the action was taken since 2019. Zamfara state APC chairman, Alhaji Lawal Liman stated this while reacting to the recent comments credited to Senator Marafa making certain allegations against the national caretaker committee of the

Russia’s elections chief said Monday that voting by mail in the US presidential election had paved the way for massive voter fraud, echoing rhetoric from the campaign of Donald Trump. Ella Pamfilova, the head of Russia’s elections commission, said she had carefully studied mail-in voting in the United States and found the process vulnerable to

A civil group, the Federal Social Democrats, has stated that the integrity and credibility of the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, have been diminished by the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of October 20. The group, in a statement on Sunday, signed on its

This is how the most colossal and fragile ego on the planet deals with losing the US election: he does not deal with it at all. My uncle’s speech late on election night wasn’t just entirely mendacious from beginning to end. It was also deeply dangerous. It’s one thing for random Republicans to call a

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has frowned at the move by the Federal Government of Nigeria to arrest and also freeze the accounts of some protesters and sponsors of the #EndSARS movement. The NBA which reacted through its President, Olumide Akpata in a Facebook post on Saturday said that lawyers are not smiling over the

The commissioner for justice, Onigbanjo said the state’s Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) had assessed the temporary charges filed against them by the police and found no prima facie evidence that they committed any crime. According to a statement by the Director, Public Affairs in the Ministry of Justice, Kayode Oyekanmi, the Attorney-General explained the

The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Taskforce has issued a seven-day quit notice to squatters in illegal structures at Fagba on Abbatior Road in Oko-Oba, Agege, near Lagos. The Head of Public Affairs of the taskforce, Mr Taofiq Adebayo, issued the notice in a statement in Lagos on Sunday. Adebayo said the illegal structures