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It is the saddest night of October 2020. Nobody spoke except the shovels in their hands, heaping sand on slain bodies, bones and blood in a shallow mass grave. Secretly, they buried a great number of unnamed, unfortunate citizens in the still of the night. One, two, three…20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the mass burial of at least 103 protesters who were allegedly massacred by joint forces of the Nigerian Army and the police during the October 2020 mass protest against police brutality tagged #EndSARS. In a letter seen by Peoples Gazette and dated July 19 by the public […]
Continue ReadingNigeria leader Muhammadu Buhari turned 80 yesterday. The older and richer he has grown, the less respected and influential he also has become, and the greater the efforts required to sustain his desired image as a “successful” leader. For instance, Senate leader Ahmad Lawan, in a birthday message, told Buhari that millions of Nigerians are “inspired” by the […]
Continue ReadingIrony of life! Some went in there to protest against police brutality and did not come out alive while some others also went and met the love of their lives! Nigerian On-Air-personality, Umoh Unyine, is excited as she is set to say ”I do” to her fiance. In a post shared on her Facebook page, […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government says Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, are vicariously liable for the losses the country suffered during the EndSARS protest. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Tuesday when he featured on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria in […]
Continue ReadingIn one’s life, there are a limited number of events that are truly transformational and can be included amongst earth-shattering events. The #EndSars protests was one of them. The same way Americans remember where they were when the Twin Towers came down or when they found out President Kennedy had been assassinated, Nigerians will remember […]
Continue Reading#EndSARS was waiting to happen. Brought on by the weight of history; a dialogue of the deaf between Nigeria’s governing elite and the governed about how the latter experience (in)security; and the deficit of new ideas to convene and govern our collective aspirations, #EndSARS symbolises a deep structural problem. At the core of the #EndSARS […]
Continue ReadingThings went out of hand very quickly with the emerging Nigerian “revolution” when on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, soldiers stormed the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza in Lagos, and started shooting. We were told they shot in the air. But the reports have been conflicting and troubling. The protesters insist that persons died, and that the […]
Continue ReadingMy sincerest condolences to families who have lost any member as a result of the #ENDSARS protests and eternal rest to the young Nigerians who have unfortunately paid the supreme price. The protests were with complete orderliness until some people with agenda infiltrated thugs into the mix and took it off the hands of the […]
Continue ReadingNational Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), being piloted by a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), and other statesmen, has, in a resolution, demanded that Nigeria should be renegotiated. Demanding that whoever authorised the deployment of troops to face the #EndSARS protesting youths should be court-marshalled for murder, the organisation said the government should […]
Continue Reading#EndSARS effect continues as Nigerian Senator, Teslim Folarin’s house has joined the growing lists of Nigerian politicians’ houses which have suffered invasion and attacks in the last few days. Eyewitnesses alleged that the Oyo-born lawmaker’s house in Oluyole area of Ibadan was broken into by a mob who carted away brand new motorcycles also called […]
Continue ReadingNigerians living in Austria attacked the Nigerian envoy to Austria, in the capital city, Vienna, and it had to take intervention of the Austrian police to quell the angry Nigerian mob. The date of the attack is not yet clear as some Nigerians say it happened on Wednesday while some say on Thursday October 22. […]
Continue ReadingGovernor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has appealed to youths to forgive the country’s leaders, noting that the leaders had learnt valuable lessons from the prevailing disturbing situation. Umahi, who made the appeal on Friday during an address to the people of the state, insisted that the country needed to move forward after the killings […]
Continue ReadingTurning 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 […]
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