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Despite ongoing attempts by some government officials to discredit the report of the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the #EndSARS protest and attack on peaceful demonstrators at the Lekki Toll Gate last year, SaharaReporters has uncovered details…

The United States Government on Tuesday called on the Nigerian and Lagos State governments to adress alleged abuses pointed out by the report of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry that looked into the violence surrounding the #EndSARS protest…

On Monday, the Lagos State Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS-Related Abuses and Other Matters presented a 309-page document admitting that there was a massacre at Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020, to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo…

Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said he does not know what became of the video camera he found at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos in the aftermath of last year’s #EndSARS protest. When asked about what happened to the video…

Four soldiers and a commander, Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkusu, were killed by fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Saturday and not four as claimed by the Nigerian Army, military sources have told SaharaReporters. The Dir…

One of the survivors of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos has disclosed that they were working on a cracked pillar of the high rise building when it collapsed. The survivor who is a labourer at the site said the pillar they were working…

Alec Baldwin has called for film and TV production companies to hire police officers to 'monitor weapons safety' onset after he accidentally shot dead his cinematographer.   Posting on Instagram, Baldwin shared a short statement, which reads…

A notorious suspected kidnapper, Bunmi Ogunremi, 49, has been arrested by the police in Ado-Ekiti for carrying out several kidnap incidents in the state including that of his own mother in-law.     Ogunremi aka Bunmi Bafon who hails from Ado-Ekiti w…

OAP and leader of the Free the Sheeple movement, DaddyFreeze, has berated gospel singer, Yinka Alaseyori, for attending a praise and worship session on the 21-storey building that recently collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos state.   Many months ago, the owne…

The police have arrested a 300-level student of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) identified as Miracle Ogochukwu Chiagoziem for reportedly pouring hot water on her colleague Wisdom Uchenna Chukwuemeka, a 400 level student of Geology de…

A pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ola Ogunfuwa, and 22 of his workers are said to be trapped under the debris from the Ikoyi 21-storey building that collapsed on Monday, November 1.   Punch reports that Ogunfuwa who is in charge of t…

In the last 24 hours, 663 new cases of COVID19 were reported in Nigeria; Lagos-170, Ogun-108, Bauchi-69, Ebonyi-49, Edo-33, Rivers-30, FCT-26, Jigawa-26, Delta-20, Anambra-17, Gombe-16, Kano-16, Imo-15, Abia-14, Borno-11, Oyo-11, Plateau-8, Kebbi…

A youth corps member (name withheld), on primary assignment in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom, was gang-r*ped by two persons, one Ofonime Essien and Frank Okon, when she went to charge her phone in their house. The Akwa Ibom State Police Command s…

In the last 24 hours, 307 new cases of COVID19 were reported in Nigeria; Lagos-188, FCT-44, Ogun-19, Kaduna-14, Oyo-12, Bayelsa-9, Gombe-5, Kano-3, Delta-3, Imo-2, Rivers-2, Niger-2, Bauchi-2, Plateau-1, Kwara-1. A total of 10162 cases of COVID19…

The violent unrest gripping the United States spread on Saturday night to a suburb of San Diego, where rioters burned two banks to the ground, looted and destroyed many other businesses. Peaceful protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minne…

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has reacted to the alleged r*pe and murder of Uwa Omozuwa in one of the branches of his church. Taking to his Instagram handle, he wrote: All I can do at thi…

Houstonians gathered on Sunday at Cuney Homes in the Third Ward to pray for the family of George Floyd. During the prayer, the white people in attendance knelt down and asked for forgiveness from the blacks for years of racism. The powerful mom…

Like any Santo Domingo hotspot in the gritty eastern section of the Dominican Republic capital, the Dial Bar & Lounge was packed last Sunday night, its patrons engaged in lively banter, sipping cocktails and looking at their cell…