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Nigeria @60: Group Protests Against Bad Governance, Asks Buhari To Fix Nation Or Resign

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4 years ago

October 1, 2020

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… Says Nigeria An Embarrassment In Committee Of Nations

Day ought to be celebration of Nigeria independence turned to protest
in Benin on Thursday as group known as Coalition for Revolution took
to major streets in the ancient city, calling on President Muhammadu
Buhari to fix the country or resign honourably.

The protesters who carried placards with inscriptions such as: ‘change the system not palliative’; the poor have rights too’; ‘reverse electricity hike now’; ‘reverse all privatisation’; ‘Buhari: obey Nigerians not IMF’; ‘end poverty in Nigeria now, etc, also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to give Nigerians divedence of democracy.

Comrade Kola Edokpayi, spokesperson for the group, while addressing
newsmen at the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),
said there is nothing to celebrate about Nigeria independence, adding
that Nigeria is rather an embarrassment before the committee of
nations.

According to Kola, the pitiable state of the nation has led to mass exodus of Nigerian youth travelling to Libya, Italy, and other crisis ravaged countries, adding that these youths prefer to die in these
countries because our leaders have failed them.

He said, “Today, we are no longer proud that we are from Nigeria.
There is mass exodus of our youths from Nigeria to Libya enroute
Italy. They prefer to live and die in Libya where there is crisis;
they prefer to live and die in Afghanistan, Iraq where there is
crisis; they prefer to die in Syria, a crisis ravaged country just
because of leaders have failed us. Our leaders are busy celebrating
the failed independence of Nigeria. There is nothing to celebrate
about. Independence is meaningless unless it is meant for the total
liberation of our people.

The protesters in Benin on Thursday.

“We are using this medium to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to
fix Nigeria; to tell President Muhammadu Buhari to give us the
dividence of democracy. If President Buhari lacks the intellectual
capacity, the mental capacity, the spiritual ability to lead Nigeria
to its promise land, he should honourably resign.”

He said dream of the founding fathers of Nigeria was a country where
no man sleep under the bridge and where human rights shall be
respected but unfortunately this has been a mirage, adding that,
“Nigeria is rather suffocating”.

Kola continues, “Since Nigeria assumed Independence October 1st 1960. We
cannot jettison the roll and contributions of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Anthony Enahoro, etc. They envisaged a new
Nigeria where no man shall sleep under the bridge; where human rights
shall be respected; where there shall be hope for all and sundry. But
60 years after Nigeria independence, Nigeria is still crawling;
Nigeria is still suffocating in the iron grip of our leaders. As a
result of the fact that those that were elected to pilot the affairs
of this nation since 1960 have all failed in their different
categories of rescuing Nigeria economic.”

Going memory lane on how President Muhammadu Buhari promised to reduce
fuel price to N40 and put an end to corruption, Kola noted that there
has been rather advanced and free looting and hike in fuel and
electricity tariff.

“Despite lying to Nigeria that corruption would be a thing of the past
in 2015, the Buhari-led administration has advanced free looting all
over. Loans and recovered loots from Abacha and Diezeni Madueke and
others are being massively looted shamelessly. Corruption is now an
official signature of all those in government and their friends.

“Topping all these, our rulers have decided to add heavier palavers to
our sufferings. Within three months, they have hiked fuel prices,
increased electricity tariffs, stamp duty, food items, and other basic
amenities. To be a Nigerian is now as costly as hell”, Kola lamented.

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Court Remands Tenant For Setting Landlord’s House On Fire In Ibadan

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2 hours ago

May 2, 2024

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An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Thursday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Dickson Peter, be remanded in a correction facility for allegedly setting his landlord’s house on fire.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police charged the defendant with two counts of felony and arson.

The Magistrate, Mr M. Mudashiru, who did not take his plea due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he be remanded in the Abolongo Correctional Facility, Oyo Town.

Mudashiru said the remand is pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

He adjourned the matter until July 23, 2024, for reference.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Femi Oluwadare told the court that Peter, on April 18, at about 12:30 am, was alleged to have unlawfully set fire to the house of his landlord, Cepas Okeme, and destroyed properties worth N6.5 million.

Oluwadare said that after he set the building on fire, it also spread to the next house property belonging to Bose Ali ‘F’ and destroyed property worth N3.5 million.

He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 443 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000.

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Officer Who Shot Man Dead During Fuel Queue Tumult Identified — Lagos Police

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3 hours ago

May 2, 2024

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The Lagos State Police Command said it has identified the police officer who shot a young man, Toheeb Eniafe, at a petrol station on Wednesday.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this on Thursday.

He said, “The person behind the shooting has been identified as a police officer serving at Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 17, Lion Building, Lagos.

“Investigation is still ongoing and further findings will be made available.

“Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command is working with the family of the deceased to ensure that there is no miscarriage of justice.”

Recall that Eniafe was shot on Wednesday at a petrol station belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited at Obalende in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State.

Eniafe was reported to have been shot dead while he and some others were resisting the move by some security agents to buy fuel without joining the queue.

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Woman Kills One Year-old Son In Delta

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8 hours ago

May 2, 2024

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The Delta State Police Command on Thursday paraded a 24-year-old woman, Sofia Nkwo, for killing her one-year-old son.

The woman said she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.

Also paraded were fake alcoholic producers, murder, kidnapping suspects, and car snatchers among others.

Parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Abaniwonda Olufemi, frowned at the evil act perpetuated by the woman.

He said, “On April 28, 2024, a case of infanticide was reported at Oleh Division, that a suspect named Sofia Nkwor 24, from Isoko south LGA, dump her child of one year and four month old in a well along the road in Araya community Isoko south LGA.

“Children who went to play around the tree discovered the abandoned child floating on the well. The mother Sofia Nkwor was immediately arrested and she stated that she dumped the child on 26th April 2024.

Confessing to the crime, Nkwo, said that she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.

On the current kidnappings and killings in Ika North-East and Ika South areas of the state where farmers were being kidnapped and killed by gunmen, CP Olufemi said the command had developed personnel for the area.

“We are aware of the security situation in the Ika area of the state, and I have deployed personnel and directed Area Commander to move into the area and curb the bushes.

“The command is also working with Edo state Command because you know the area is the boundary between Delta and Edo,” he added.