Deep Dive

October 24, 2020

The #LekkiMassacre battle continues on the Internet | #ItIsNotFinished

by Ayodele Ibiyemi The debate about whether anyone died during the shootings of peaceful protesters at the Lekki Tollgate is currently ongoing. Unfortunately, many Government officials and their loyalists are insisting that no one died at the shootings. Their argument is dead on arrival as the logical ending of soldiers shooting live rounds at people... Read More

#EndSARS, Lekki Massacre

October 24, 2020

#EndSARS: ASUU finally speaks on #LekkiMassacre but Nigerians smell foul play

Nigerian students, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the federal government have always had a discontented marriage. While the three are connected in more ways than one, they regularly disagree. Now, the #EndSARS protest has brought the three together again. ASUU was still on strike before the start of the protest, as their... Read More

October 24, 2020

Social inequality or sponsored unrest, one or the other caused the looting in Lagos and other states | #EndSARS

by Ayodele Ibiyemi The past few days have been very dark in Nigeria – really – but certain people have been worse hit than others. Besides the general anguish of watching fellow countrymen die from the bullets of Nigerian security operatives, arsonists have burnt government properties and looted stores across Lagos. Immediately after the curfew... Read More

#EndSARS, Lekki Massacre

October 23, 2020

Nigeria is not a democratic state, the presidential address is proof | #EndSARS

For all intents and purposes, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a democratic state, at least it ought to be. Yet, when the elected president of the federation address a nation in turmoil and steeped in grief and he alludes that his prompt response to the demands made by the people who voted him into... Read More

October 23, 2020

See Nigerian creatives using their art to tell the #EndSARS story | #ItIsNotFinished

The last two weeks as eventful as they’ve been, saw young Nigerians coming out in the thousands to fight against the injustice of impudent police officers and the social inequality the nation has for so long endured. While some supporters of the movement came out on the streets to protest, other supporters used whatever means... Read More

#EndSARS, Emmanuel Okpala, falz

October 23, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: DJ Switch discloses more shocking details about the #LekkiMassacre | #EndSARS

Nigerians are still devastated from witnessing the #LekkiMassacre that left many young men and women dead and several others injured. Despite the clear evidence of the killings that were reported live on Instagram by Obianuju Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch, some Nigerians have tried to debunk the credibility of the horrific incident that... Read More

#EndSARSupdates, DJ Switch, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

October 23, 2020

#LekkiShootings: ‘If people died at Lekki toll gate’ Nigerians call out Omotola Jalade-Ekehinde for insensitive tweet | #YNaijaEndSARSupdates

The year 2020 has come layered with traumatic blows to our mental health and our economic system. From the coronavirus pandemic to the recent horrifying Lekki Massacre, Nigerians have had to go through a lot. Many are still tossing in their sleep, with vivid images of peaceful protesters screaming for their lives haunting their dreams.... Read More

Lekki Killings, Omotola Jalade-Eke

October 23, 2020

Nigerian youth blacklist Atiku and his peers, and there are reasons for this

Almost everyone that has led Nigeria since its democratic dispensation in 1999 is presumed to have left the country worse off than they met it. This seems to be because of a lack of ingenuity to solve complex modern economic problems, or a reluctance to; ultimately because the nation’s crop of leaders are those who... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, APC, Atiku, Buhari, PDP

October 23, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Sanwo-Olu has released a list of police officers on trial for crimes against humanity, but something doesn’t add up

Recent events following the #EndSARS protest have been anything but comforting. Not only are the youth pained over the murder of comrades in the struggle for a better Nigeria, but also President Buhari’s twelve-minute speech that excluded the fact that security men opened fire on unarmed peaceful protesters was like an added insult to injury.... Read More

#EndSARS, Justice for #EndSARS victims, Sanwo-Olu, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

October 23, 2020

‘I am not afraid to die’ – Falz encourages Nigerian youths to stay on track | #YNaijaEndSARSupdate

Nigerians on Tuesday, 20 October 2020 were left in a state of confusion following the incidents that shocked not only Nigerians but the international community. Thousands watched armed men in military uniforms fire live ammunition at peaceful protesters via a live broadcast on social media from Nigerian DJ Switch. The incidents from Tuesday and the... Read More

October 23, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Burnaboy comes under heavy fire for his ‘Fulani Herdsmen’ false alarm | #ItIsNotFinished

If Burnaboy were s superhero his two superpowers would be, one, his ability to make influential and globally accepted music, and two, his capacity to get on the bad side of Nigerian social media. Burnaboy trends so much, almost as much as social media sensation, Tacha, and that is saying a lot. The problem herein... Read More

BurnaBoy, Fulani herdsmen, port hacourt, Rivers, Tacha

End SARS Timeline

October 23, 2020

23 notable things we must not forget from the #EndSARS protest

Now 18 days, Nigerians have taken to various parts of the country to protest against police brutality, extortion, extra-judicial killings perpetrated by the now-defunct police unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), social injustices, corruption, and bad leadership. Indeed, the #EndSARS protests across the country now bullied to a temporary end by President Muhammadu Buhari, due to... Read More

October 23, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Here are the next steps Nigerian youth must take | #ItIsNotFinished

by Ayodele Ibiyemi With President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast in the evening of October 22, 2020, it seems that the #EndSARS movement and the agitations against police brutality and the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) have ended. Lagos, the epicentre of the protests is under curfew, protests are banned in Abuja after many protesters were... Read More

October 23, 2020

We’ve lost N100m to six days of suspended BRT operations-Primero, INEC postpones all bye-elections over #EndSARS crisis | 5 Things That Should Matter Today

We’ve lost N100m to six days of suspended BRT operations-Primero The management of Primero Transport Services (PTS) Ltd., an operator of bus rapid transit (BRT), Lagos, has stated it lost N100 million in six days due to the #EndSARS protests. Mutiu Yekeen, the company’s head of corporate communications, told NAN on Wednesday that the company... Read More

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Babajide Sanwo-Olu., CACOVID, Festus Okoye, President Muhammadu Buhari

October 22, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdate: Here are the top 5 takeaways from President Buhari’s speech on #EndSARS protests

The shock that coursed through the veins of every Nigerian across the country was unquantifiable. On Tuesday night, via a live broadcast, Nigerians watched armed men in military uniform open fire on protesters at the Lekki toll gate; witnessing protesters tending to the wound of the injured and closing the eyes of the dead. The... Read More

#EndSARS, Muhammadu Buhari

October 22, 2020

Kunle Afolayan’s intention to script #LekkiMassacre is a path other creatives should follow

The evening of October 20, 2020, at the Lekki toll gate plaza, Lagos, is a gory moment which will be written in the sands of time, notwithstanding how far the government goes to abridge that history. Building up to that moment had been protests against police brutality in the country. Almost all states of the... Read More

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#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, police brutality

October 22, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdate: Buhari disregards Lekki Massacre in nationwide address | #EndSARS

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to discontinue street protests but, however, made no mention of the events leading to the Lekki Massacre or the lives lost in his nationwide address at 7pm on Thursday. On Tuesday evening, armed men in military uniform opened fire on protesters who had assembled at the Lekki toll gate... Read More

Muhammadu Buhari

October 22, 2020

What could the Oba of Lagos have done about the #EndSARS protests?

by Ayodele Ibiyemi Continuing in the looting and brigandage in Lagos, aggrieved youth ransacked the palace of the Oba of Lagos Wednesday, October 21, 2020, and the king had to scamper to safety. Unfortunately, videos from the attack showed hoodlums bringing out food items labelled as COVID-19 palliatives. This has thrown up many questions and... Read More

October 22, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Osinbajo is sorry again and unlike Sanwo-Olu, accepts that lives were lost | #LekkiMassacre

It is Day 15 of the #EndSARS protests. One day after the #LekkiMassacre – a day already written in the history of Nigeria when armed security operatives, working on the orders of a yet unknown Nigerian, fired live ammunition directly as peaceful protesters. Even Shakespeare‘s protege cannot rewrite that historical event. It is also years... Read More

#EndSARS, Babajide Sanwo-Olu., Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeriab Police, police brutality, Yemi Osinbajo

October 21, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Buhari’s insistence on remaining silent is creating wide spread anxiety

Almost everyone in the public eye, a celebrity, an influencer, a politician or sometimes an athlete, tend to have a trade mark, a signature move if you will, synonymous with their brand. Simply put, there is that one thing we know them for, which incidentally could be what had made them famous in the first... Read More

#LekkiMassacre, António Guterres, Dino Melaya, Joe Biden, lai mohammed, Mohammadu Buhari, nigeria, olusegun obasanjo, USA

October 21, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Why Obasanjo’s letter to Buhari is hypocritical | #EndSARS

The events on Tuesday, 20 October 2020, which led to the #LekkiMassacre is one that will never be forgotten in the history of this nation. The cruelty that was meted out on young Nigerians at the Lekki Toll-Gate for demanding better living conditions has had several prominent figures, including former president Olusegun Obasanjo, calling on... Read More

#EndSARS, Obasanjo's open letter to President Buhari, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

Oke

October 21, 2020

#EndSARS: Oke tweeted ‘Nigeria will not end me’ and Nigeria did, in fact, end him | #YNaijaEndSARSupdate

‘Nigeria will not end me’ – these were the last words of Nigerian designer, Okechukwu Obi-Enadhuze, on Twitter, a mere three hours before he was killed by thugs during a wild altercation with them on Wednesday, 21 October 2020, in Oshodi Lagos. His last tweet rang of the yearnings of many other Nigerian youths who... Read More

October 21, 2020

Omoni Oboli, Chioma Akpotha, others continue to lend their services to the #EndSARS movement

Solidarity in Nigeria has largely been a foreign concept, one we all claim to subscribe to but have been slow to really give into. Our country has had a long history of conflicts, often driven by a disconnect in economic, religious or ethnic principles, but the last two weeks in our history has proven that... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiGenocide, #LekkiMassacre, Chioma Akpotha, FSARS, Omoni Oboli, Uche Jumbo, Ufoma McDermott

October 21, 2020

#EndSARS: How the government has gaslighted grieving Nigerians thus far | #YNaijaEndSARSupdate

When Nigerians took to the streets to protest against police injustices and the extra-judicial killings perpetrated by the now-defunct police unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, no one could have imagined that it would spin around to claim the lives of scores of people. The movement was peaceful despite several attempts by some oppositionists to brand it... Read More

Lekki-Tollgate, Sanwo-Olu

October 21, 2020

Why is Governor Sanwo-Olu denying the #LekkiMassacre deaths?

by Ayodele Ibiyemi In the evening of October 20, 2020, peaceful protesters at the Lekki Tollgate were shot at by Nigerian security operatives. These protesters were holding the Nigerian flag and singing the National Anthem as they were being shot at. These scenes were captured by some protesters and the apprehension in their voices as... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

October 21, 2020

DJ Switch spread the #LekkiMassacre story to the world, and it’s not the first time she is fighting to #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria

Since the protest to end police brutality in Nigeria began, protesters have demanded that the movement remain leaderless. That way, no appointed leader or group of leaders will be bribed, bullied or persuaded from the cause, and so far this unwritten rule has been adhered to. However, we would be remiss not to acknowledge the... Read More

October 21, 2020

Stark Contrast: How Sanwo-Olu’s reaction to the #EndSARS protests differs darkly from Makinde’s methods | #YNaijaEndSARSupdates

The #EndSARS protest started peacefully but was unfortunately hijacked by hoodlums who unleashed mayhem on the peaceful protesters. This prompted some state governors including Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos and Seyi Makinde of Oyo to take measures to restore order in their various states. Governor Sanwo-Olu took to his Twitter handle, Tuesday, to declare a... Read More

#EndSARS, Governor Seyi Makinde, Sanwo-Olu, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

October 21, 2020

‘No one died in Lekki toll gate shooting’ – Gov. Sanwo-Olu | #YNaijaEndSARSupdates

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared that Nigeria suffered no fatality in the Lekki tollgate shooting that took place overnight. In a live broadcast on Channels Tv, Wednesday morning, the Lagos State governor addressed Nigerians about the shooting of peaceful protesters at the Lekki toll gate on Tuesday evening. He emphasised that after going... Read More

October 21, 2020

#LekkiMassacre: Sanwo-Olu blames Lekki killings on ‘forces beyond our control’ | #YNaijaEndSARSupdates

The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has reacted to the killing of peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate on Tuesday, 20 October 2020. YNaija reported an alleged shooting of peaceful protesters at the Lekki-tollgate protest grounds after several videos made rounds of the event on social media in realtime. The governor, in... Read More

Lekki-Tollgate, Sanwo-Olu

October 20, 2020

Curfews here and there: What does Gov. Sanwo-Olu intend to achieve? | #YNaijaEndSARSupdates

The relationship between Nigerians and their leaders can be described as an abusive marriage where the victim has been silent for so long. Nigerians have since tolerated corrupt leaders and bad governance only to say ‘no more’ with the #EndSARS protest that has rocked the nation for days. Twelve days and counting, Nigerians have been... Read More

Lagos Curfew, Sanwo-Olu

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