The Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Thursday addressed residents of the state over the unfortunate hijack of the peaceful #EndSARS protests by miscreants, leading to acts of violence, criminality and destruction of public and private properties. Ugwuanyi acknowledged the resentments of the masses against brutality but condemned the acts of violence and criminality perpetrated by hoodlums; he described their actions as needless because violence has never solved societal problems but rather compounds them. He...

AWKA–-The Governor of Anambra State today declared 24 hours curfew throughout Anambra state, over growing tension and threat of violence and attacks, on public institutions since the shooting of unarmed protesters at Lekki Toll Gate Plaza, on Tuesday night. The curfew which according to the governor will commence tonight by 8pm, is in response to the growing tension and rampage by young people in Anambra state, which only last night escalated into burning of police...

The Federal Executive Council meeting was held on Wednesday and was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting which held few hours after soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesting Nigerian youth in Lekki, Lagos State, and at a time there were reports of continued killings in some part of the country, saw the council keeping mum on the issue. None of the ministers brief the...

The Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Wednesday inaugurated an 8-man Judicial Panel of Inquiry. The panel was set up to address the demands of the end SARS protesters and to receive and investigate complaints of police brutality and/or related extra judicial killings in the state. Inaugurating the panel at the Government House, Ugwuanyi revealed that setting up the panel is in response to the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Yemi...

The Crime Correspondent Association of Nigeria (CCAN), has condemned the extra judicial killings carried out by the security forces on defenceless #EndSARS protesters. In a statement, Hassan Zaggi, CCAN Chairman expressed distaste over the massacre of young, energetic and vibrant citizens. “The ugly incidents of gruesome killings and maiming of Nigerians in the Abuja city centre, Dutse Alhaji, a suburb in the FCT, Lagos and other parts of the country is worrisome. “We have even...