#EndSars: Ugwuanyi Sets Up Panel To Investigate Police Brutality, Promises Compensation And Other Remedial Measures.

The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on Saturday addressed youths in the state who were protesting against police brutality in the state and country at large. In his address, he announced that his administration has set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to investigate complaints of police brutality or related extra judicial killings, as demanded by the protesters. The panel he said will be chaired by a High Court Judge with two representatives of the...

In ‘Yellow Rose,’ An Undocumented Filipina Sings for Her American Dream

In Diane Paragas’ musical-drama feature, the lead character reveals casually what the title “Yellow Rose” means. Of course, our immediate association would be with the familiar folk song, but “Rose” here is Rosario (Eva Noblezada), an undocumented 17-year-old Filipino-American, who, showing an inclination for singing country music as a child, was given the racially insensitive moniker “Yellow Rose.” While this could’ve kindled didactic sociopolitical commentary on the complicated issues of migration and race, Paragas ferries...

Court Fines Civil Servant N750,000 for Taking Over Ex-lover’s Property

A High Court in Igbosere, Lagos, on Friday ordered Ms Olaide Ibraheem, a civil servant to pay N750,000 as fine for forcibly taking over the property of her ”lover”, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyitolu, . Ibraheem, was arraigned on May 22, 2017, on three counts of forgery, forcible entry and criminal damage to the property, located at No. 1, Baba Yusuf Close, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, belonging to Oke-Osanyitolu, the Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency...

Adamawa Deputy Governor Lost 118 Year-old Aged Mother

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent The Deputy Governor of Adamawa State Chief Crowther Seth has lost his mother Mama Metusudo Helina Seth. Mama Helina died in Lamurde after clocking a celebrated age of 118. Although the Deputy Governor’s mother has been suffering some old age related ailments, she passed on in her sleep in the wee hours of Tuesday. George Kushi, Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor in a statement stated that Mama Helina...

Yoruba People Constitute About One-Quarter of the Total Population in Benin Republic – Benin Monarch

It has been revealed that the Yoruba people who dominated South-West Nigeria also constituted about one-quarter of the total population in Benin Republic. This was revealed by the Secretary-General of the Federation of Yoruba Obas in Benin Republic (FYOBR), Oba Abdul-Wahab Adio Ogunjin during an interview with Bola Bamigbola. The Yoruba Monarch added that there are total of 34 Yoruba Obas in Benin Republic He also disclosed that there are other Nigerian groups that are...

APC-Buhari Regime is leading a “Pull Igbo down strategy”  ―Former Gov. Ezeife Charges

■ The Igbo man is destined for success and we succeed but we do not manage our successes effectively. ■ The present government of Nigeria is doing so much against the Igbo People, telling that they don’t belong. ■ Pull Igbo down strategy seem to be the present government policy. ■ The Igboman can fix Nigeria using egalitarianism. ■ With Igbo presidency or an Igboman at the top, Nigeria will experience explosive economic growth WAP...

BREAKING: Police Arrest Four Over Death of PwC Senior Partner

LAGOS — The police in Lagos are holding four people in custody over the death of Tola Ogundipe, a senior partner at the PricewaterhouseCooper (PWC) in Nigeria. Ogundipe went missing on Saturday while boating around Ishai in Irewe area of Lagos, reports say. His boat was found by the Marine police on Sunday while his body was found on Monday, the Punch reported. The Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu had ordered a discreet investigation. The...

Protest Rocks Osogbo Over Increase in Electricity Tariff and Fuel Price

Members of the Coalition for Civil Societies in Osun State on Friday morning, stage a protest against the increase in the electricity tariff and petrol price. The protesters took off from Freedom Park, Osogbo, Osun State Capital at about 8:30 am. The protesters were seen with placards displaying their displeasure over the hike in electricity tariff and petrol price. The protesters lamented that “approval of new electricity tariff and increment in the pump price of...

Ganduje, Others Mourns Popular Activist Against Sickle Cell, Shema’u Adam Imam

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state describes the death of a committed activist against Sickle Cell, Shema’u Adam Imam, as suffocation to the fight against Sickle Cell in the country. Shema’u Adam Imam  was until her death, a level 400 Microbiology student, at Bayero University, Kano and a member of Sickle Cell Trust Fund. Recalls that  Shema’u Adam Imam died on Friday and was buried on Saturday in Kano. Ganduje said, “As a level...

Familheey Networking Platform Teams Up with Soulace Africa to Empower War Survivor Communities

War-ravaged communities and victims including widows and orphans in Nigeria will get support following a partnership between Familheey, an app built to connect families and communities and Soulace, a Nigeria-based not-for-profit organisation that addresses violent conflict and advocates for victims of extreme violence. Soulace Africa will work with Familheey Networking platform to translate this partnership to physical and on-the-ground development through livelihood training, enterprise development and cooperative and thrift programmes, a statement announcing the collaboration...

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