The estimate is that there are about 120 million social media users in Nigeria today. If that figure is correct it stands to reason that social media clearly packs a punch for good or for ill. Its enormous punching power … Read the rest
The estimate is that there are about 120 million social media users in Nigeria today. If that figure is correct it stands to reason that social media clearly packs a punch for good or for ill. Its enormous punching power … Read the rest
Against the backdrop of the killing of 22 policemen and burning of 205 police stations and other security formations during the EndSARS riots across the country, the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, on Friday, told policemen and women … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
In the aftermath of the infiltration, suppression, and suspension of the #EndSARS protests, Nigeria is now contending with the spontaneous nationwide eruption of what I call a subaltern revolt against the greed and hardheartedness of Nigeria’s … Read the rest
The tragic conclusion of the two week running street protests by the Nigerian youths under the aegis of #EndSARS remains a
Things 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 … Read the rest
Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has said that the #EndSARS protest which took Nigeria by storm and lasted about two weeks, is politically motivated.
Bello made this known on Tuesday morning on Channels Television breakfast show, SunriseDaily.
The governor … Read the rest
The youth have spoken. Vox populi, vox Dei. Tired of seeing their future being mortgaged by philistines, our youth have decided to take their future into their own hands. We may neither understand nor even empathise with them; but we … Read the rest
The Senate on Tuesday asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to address the nation immediately on the current nationwide protests by youths against police brutality and bad governance.
The Senate also directed the police to offer protection to … Read the rest
Turning 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;… Read the rest
CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey, has lent his voice to the ongoing End SARS campaign across Nigeria.
He took to his official twitter handle to tweet the hashtag at 9:40pm Nigerian time on Wednesday.
The philanthropist also tweeted a link … Read the rest