#EndSARS

October 27, 2020

More mistrust brews between Sanwo-Olu and Nigerian youth as judicial panel is asked to sign oath of secrecy

Earlier this month, young Nigerians took to the streets to protest police brutality. Unfortunately, this was overshadowed by Nigerians tired of oppressive systems and let out their anger in ways they knew best. Indeed, the #EndSARS protest only seemed to intensify the hostility between Nigerian youth and the government. As a result, there is now a... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, lagos state

October 27, 2020

Yahaya Bello’s #EndSARS comments will make you question government’s will towards positive change

It is 20 days since the #EndSARS protests started and, Nigerian politicians who have relatively stayed quiet more days than a deafening silence, are now speaking up now that the protest ‘has been hijacked’ and lives have been lost across the country. A popular one, the governor of Kogi, Yahaya Adoza Bello, was interviewed today by... Read More

#EndSARS, channels tv, FSARS, Kogi, Yayaha Bello

October 27, 2020

“They have gotten the government where they wanted them to be” – Aisha Yesufu, #EndSARS Activist tells Chude Jideonwo on #WithChude

On this week’s episode of the #EndSARS special edition of #WithChude interviews, prominent #EndSARS activist, Aisha Yesufu, shared with show host and founder of Joy, Inc., Chude Jideonwo, her expectations from the Nigerian government to end police brutality as she encouraged Nigerians about the status of their agitation. When asked about how she navigates bouts... Read More

#EndSARS, #WithChude, Aisha Yesufu

October 26, 2020

Forensic Fashola and friends (Episode 5) : The one with the ‘secret camera’ at Lekki tollgate

Nigerian politics can only be likened to a drama series. There are several times, as a Nigerian, where you halt in your steps, look around waiting for someone to scream “Cut!”. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, finding a ‘secret camera’ at the Lekki tollgate five days after the massacre at that... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, babatunde Fashola

October 26, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: The government is trying to gag the media and this won’t be the first time | #EndSARS

Ever since the #LekkiMassacre took place, several attempts have been made by the political class to cover up and disregard clear evidence of the murder of many innocent young Nigerians. Not only have they tried to silence those at the forefront of the protest who documented the gruesome murder of fellow peaceful protesters, but they... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, African Independent Television (AIT), Arise TV, channels television, National Broadcasting Commission, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

October 26, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Lewis Hamilton joins the #EndSARS movement, then proceeds to break a world record

The record for most first-place victories in auto racing league Formula 1, now belongs to Lewis Hamilton, with a record 92 career win, as he clinched himself another victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix, on October 25, 2020. His win saw him surpassing racing legend Michael Schumacher’s, who was sitting at 91 career wins. Some... Read More

Deep Dive, The Sports Blog

#EndSARS, Breonna Taylor, Formula 1, Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher’s, Portuguese Grand Prix, Tuscan Grand Prix grid

October 26, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: All the major gaps in Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s statement on the #EndSARS protests

At the climax of the #EndSARS protest, came the #LekkiMassacre which the political class has denied happened time and again, despite glaring video evidence that proves otherwise. Not only has the Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, denied the murder of several young Nigerians by security operatives at the Lekki Toll-Gate, but the entire political class seems to be pushing... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, The facts don't lie, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

October 26, 2020

Why Zahra Buhari needs to take to the streets to see the reality the president has caused | #EndSARS

by Ayodele Ibiyemi “Now that people confirmed that Buhari distributed enough palliatives nationwide, it is clear Buhari is not our problem” – Zahra Buhari Daughter of Nigerian President Muhamadu Buhari, Zahra Buhari, posted the above statement on her Instagram page, trying to absolve her father of the responsibility of being the President of a dying... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, Muhammadu Buhari, Zahra Buhari

October 26, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Pastor Tunde Bakare weighs in on the #LekkiMassacre, highlighting some key points | #EndSARS

Since the #EndSARS protest began, several clerics in Nigeria have weighed in on the issue – condemning the use of brute force against the peaceful protesters. Prominent among them are Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre; Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG); Apostle Johnson Suleman of... Read More

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, Pastor Tunde Bakare, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

October 25, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Is the Oba of Lagos still Oba without his staff ? | #EndSARS

It is no longer news that the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Babatunde Osuolale Aremu Akiolu, is without his staff of authority as it was carted away by the hoodlums who invaded his palace upon hijacking the #EndSARS protest. They were also reported to have made away with some other personal belongings of the Oba including... Read More

#EndSARS, Missing Staff of the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Babatunde Osuolale Aremu Akiolu, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

October 25, 2020

#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: ‘I wanted to share looted palliatives on my birthday’ Sanai Agunbiade thinks palliatives are party packs | #EndSARS

2020 has come with very trying moments for Nigerians. From the Covid-19 outbreak to the #EndSARS protest that has left many Nigerians dead, one can only wonder if it can get any worse. Things have sadly taken a new turn following the #EndSARS protest; revealing the unbelievable levels of corruption in the system courtesy of... Read More

#EndSARS, Covid-19 palliatives, I wanted to share looted palliatives on my birthday, Sanai Agunbiade aka SOB, Senator Teslim Folarin, YNaijaEndSARSupdates

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

A statement from the coalition of protests groups across Lagos and Nigeria

Following the nationwide address from President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday, October 22, 2020, we are more resolved to press not just for justice but for a new and better Nigeria where all citizens are safe and can thrive. Lagos, where the hotbed of resistance began has been under state-wide curfew imposed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Prior... Read More

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

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

‘There is no stopping us’ | Rinu, activist and #EndSARS protester tells #WithChude

On the second episode of this week’s #EndSARS special edition series of #WithChude interviews, activist Oduala Olorunrinu, popularly known as Rinu, shared with show host and founder of Joy, Inc., Chude Jideonwo her inspiration to speak up about police brutality in Nigeria. As one of the visible advocates of the #EndSARS movement, Rinu shared her... Read More

#EndSARS, Oduala Olorunrinu

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 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

Deep Dive, The Media Blog

#EndSARS, #LekkiMassacre, police brutality

October 22, 2020

2baba and Blackface continue ugly spat but political comparison is totally unnecessary

Since the fallout of the defunct music group, Plantashun Boiz, made up of Faze, Blackface and 2baba (formerly 2face), spats have remained a recurring exercise. Particularly, 2baba and Blackface have a history of hurling brickbats at each other. In the long history of bitterness between the two, the most pronounced has been Blackface accusing 2baba... Read More

#EndSARS, 2baba, Blackface

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: 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

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.

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