Borno Helicopter Crash; UN Debunk Claim, Say It Landed For A Repair
Contrary to reports that a Helicopter was today shot down by members of the dreaded Boko Haram Insurgent carrying yet to be identified persons in Bama LGA in Borno state.
Contrary to reports that a Helicopter was today shot down by members of the dreaded Boko Haram Insurgent carrying yet to be identified persons in Bama LGA in Borno state.
#EndSARS campaigner, Eromosele Adene has been granted bail in the sum of N1 million by the Yaba Magistrate Court, Lagos, after being in police custody for over a week. The magistrate ruled against an application filed by the policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department seeking to remand Adene for an extra 30 days. Adene was taken away from his Lagos home in Ikeja, by police officers on November 7, 2020 ahead of a planned protest in Lagos. The 27-year-old was subsequently transferred to the Force CID at the Police Headquarters, Abuja on November 9, before he was later returned to Lagos on Sunday, November 15. He was detained for seven days in Abuja before being brought back to Lagos.
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently chairing the quarterly meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) at the statehouse, Abuja.
The leadership of the House of Representatives of the country is having a closed-door meeting with the heads of security agencies. The Deputy Speaker, of the house Ahmed Wase, presided over the meeting, which began about 2:15 pm.
Sixteen #EndSARS campaigners, who participated in the protests have petitioned a Federal High Court in Abuja to reverse the restriction placed on their accounts by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The CBN earlier on received approval from the Federal High Court in Abuja to freeze the accounts of about 19 individuals and a public affairs company linked to the #EndSARS protests till January. 16 of the affected persons filed a motion on Thursday through their lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), to set aside the order and unfreeze their accounts. In a supporting affidavit, the apex bank had also alleged that the #EndSARS campaigners may have received their funding through acts of terrorism and asked the judge to swiftly freeze the accounts.
Officers of the Nigerian Army, led by the Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victory Island, Lagos, Brig. Gen Ahmed Taiwo is currently at the Lagos Court of Arbitration, venue of the probe into the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers on the night of October 20, at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos. Following a summon by the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led Judicial Panel of Inquiry, the Army had submitted the names of three Lieutenant Generals and a Lieutenant Colonel, who will testify before the panel.