Joshua Adeleke News Today

As reactions continue to trail the revelations of a leaked mass burial memo of 103 Nigerians massacred during the #EndSARS protest in October 2020, the African Action Congress (AAC) party has called for accountability. While condemning the actions of the Lagos State government and its complicit actors in the heinous #EndSARS Lekki massacre and desperate attempts to cover it, AAC insisted that those responsible for such atrocities must face the full wrath of the law.

No fewer than 31 people who were arrested during the #EndSARS Protest of 2022 are yet to be released after spending over two years in jail in Lagos State without being tried in any court of law. SaharaReporters learnt that contrary to what the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, stated during the run-up to the 2023 general elections that all the people arrested during the 2020 protest had been released from detention, there are still at least 31 people who have been identified as still being det...

Tunde Olusunle celebrates Obafemi, scholar of note, at age 71 He was the sole recipient of the Nigeria National Merit Award, NNMA, in 2018. Chairman of the Governing Board of the NNMA, Prof Shekarau Yakubu, noted late October 2018, that out of three dozen nominations for the award, his own was the only entry which met all the criteria enunciated as prerequisites for the award. The NNMA is traditionally conferred on scholars, academics, professionals and practitioners who have distinguished them...