EndSARS: Gen. Buratai Attacks CNN

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaEndSARS: Gen. Buratai Attacks CNN

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)November 19, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has said the Nigerian Army is a professional Army who will never operate outside the rules of engagement. This is against the backdrop of questions being asked as to the propriety of the Nigerian Army’s involvement in the shooting of Lekki EndSARS protesters and a recent report by CNN saying that live bullets were used. Speaking on the EndSARS issue when he received...

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Nigerian Embassy In Germany Suspends Staff For Alleged Sexual Assault

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaNigerian Embassy In Germany Suspends Staff For Alleged Sexual Assault

Beloved John (Staff Writer)November 18, 2020

A senior security staff of the Nigeria embassy in Germany who allegedly demanded sex from a lady before renewing her passport in a viral video has been suspended. The viral video captured a shocked “Mr Martins” pants down in a hotel room after he had allegedly solicited sex from an anonymous woman. “Your cup is full. Your time is up,” a voice behind the camera said to him. The voice accused the now suspended staff...

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El-Zakzaky’s Trial Resumes In Kaduna State

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPeopleEl-Zakzaky’s Trial Resumes In Kaduna State

Beloved John (Staff Writer)November 18, 2020

On Wednesday, the trial of sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and his wife, Zeenat reopened at the Kaduna state high court. El-Zakzaky and his wife are being prosecuted by the Kaduna State government on an eight-count charge bordering on alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, and disruption of the public peace among other charges. Last month, the hearing was adjourned to November 17 and 18 after the couple pleaded not...

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Journalists Charge To Avoid Sensational Reporting, As Commission Commence Sitting

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaJournalists Charge To Avoid Sensational Reporting, As Commission Commence Sitting

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 18, 2020

The Chairman, Judicial Commission of inquiry into Police brutality in Adamawa, retired Justice Adamu Hobon has urged Journalists to avoid sensational reporting, as the commission commence public sitting Tuesday at the board room Universal Basic Education Board Yola. Hobon who made the plea while addressing members of the commission and journalists to formally start receiving complaints from the general public since they were sworn-in on 22nd October, 2020 and has six months to complete the assignment....

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Adamawa State Government To Construct, Renovate Courts Across The State

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaAdamawa State Government To Construct, Renovate Courts Across The State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 18, 2020

To ensure quick dispensation of justice, enhance service delivery, and to provide a conducive working environment for judicial staff, the Adamawa state government will soon commence the reconstruction and renovation of dilapidated courts across the state. Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri disclosed this while declaring open a two-day training for state counsels and investigators in various Government agencies in Adamawa State. Represented by the Chief of Staff Government House Yola, Prof. Maxwell Gidado, Fintiri said the...

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Police Asks Magistrate to Extend #EndSARS Protester’s Detention Without His Lawyer’s Consent

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPolice Asks Magistrate to Extend #EndSARS Protester’s Detention Without His Lawyer’s Consent

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)November 17, 2020

The Nigerian police attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) approached the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos on Monday and filed an application seeking to remand an #EndSARS protesters, Eromosele Adene, for an extra 30 days. Eromosele was arrested last week in Ikeja and taken to the police command headquarters. From there, he was transferred to the Area F Command before he was later detained at the SCID Panti. He was then flown to...

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Gov. Fintiri of Adamawa Assures NYSC Members of Security

National SecurityNewsNigeriaGov. Fintiri of Adamawa Assures NYSC Members of Security

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)November 16, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent Adamawa’s Governor Ahmadu Fintiri said in Yola on Monday that special security arrangements had been made for the protection of NYSC members posted to the state. Inaugurating the 2020 Batch ‘B’ stream 1A Orientation Programme for the corps members, Governor Fintiri, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Mr Maxwell Gidado, urged the corps members to also be security conscious. “As the Chief Security Officer of the state, I...

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Nigerian Army Inducts 8 Locally Made Combat Vehicles – Buratai

MilitaryNewsNigeriaNigerian Army Inducts 8 Locally Made Combat Vehicles – Buratai

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)November 16, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent The Nigerian Army has inducted eight units of locally made combat vehicles Mine-Resistant, Ambush–Protected (MRAP), also called `EZUGWU’’ into Operations Lafiya Dole and Sahel Sanity. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai who made this known at the inauguration of the vehicles in Kaduna, said the equipment has aided military operations against bandits and Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in the North East. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the...

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NAF Demands Improved Budgetary Allocation

MilitaryNewsNigeriaNAF Demands Improved Budgetary Allocation

Beloved John (Staff Writer)November 14, 2020

The Nigerian Air force is seeking for an increase in budgetary allocation to fund newly established units of the force. Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, the Chief of Air Staff who appeared before the House Committee on Air Force on Friday to present the 2020 budget performance demanded for an improved budgetary allocation in 2021. Defending the 2021 budget, the marshal noted that in spite of the expansion in the force with the creation of 11...

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Sam Adeyemi, Tuface, Davido, Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, 45 Others Sued Over #EndSARS Protests

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPeopleSam Adeyemi, Tuface, Davido, Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, 45 Others Sued Over #EndSARS Protests

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)November 11, 2020

A Nigerian, Kenechukwu Okeke, has filed a criminal complaint before a Chief Magistrate’s court in Abuja against 50 Nigerians for their alleged roles in the #EndSARS protests that took place in Nigeria last month. Okeke alleged that during the riot that hijacked the protests, his properties were destroyed and the defendants who promoted the #EndSARS protests must be brought to justice. The list of the defendants included Musician Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy, David Adeleke...

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