Lekki Shooting: CCTV footage exposed fake news – Yoruba group

The Progressive Yoruba Youths Council (PYYC) says the CCTV footage brought before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry has exposed merchants of fake news against the Nigerian Army.  According to the group, the misconception that the clip from the Lekki toll gate was destroyed has been proven otherwise.  Speaking at a press conference on Sunday […]

Lekki Shooting: Army acted in line with int’l best practices – Expert

The conduct of the Nigerian Army at the Lekki Tollgate has been described commendable and in tandem with international best practices by a British freelance journalist Michael Edwards. Mr. Edwards, who is also an expert in radio-visual analysis, stated this while speaking with reporters on the sides at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry […]

Army Day ex-students hold reunion, donate materials to alma mater

The Class 2002 batch of Army Day Secondary School (ADSS), Mogadishu Cantonment Asokoro, Abuja has donated educational materials to the School. The old students of the institution, formerly known as ADSS Sani Abacha Barracks, made the donation during their first ever reunion after 18 years of graduation from the school. The gesture was in appreciation […]

Lekki Shooting: Diaspora group identify 9 errors, discredit CNN report as organised falsehood

The Association of Nigerian Professionals in Europe (ANPE) has knocked Cable News Network (CNN) over its report on the Lekki shooting, describing it as an organised falsehood against Nigeria.  In a communique released at the end of an emergency general meeting, ANPE said it discovered that CNN’s report was not only misleading but riddled with no […]

Lekki Shooting: Discard CNN report, its a hatchet job against Nigeria military – Group

The March4Nigeria movement has urged Nigerians and the international community to disregard CNN’s report on the Lekki shooting in Lagos, noting that it is targeted at demonising the Nigerian military.  The group said after a careful scrutiny of the report, it concluded that CNN has joined campaign of calumny against the Nigerian government as well as the […]

Defection: Ebonyi lawmakers urged to commence impeachment process against Umahi

Following the defection of governor Dave Umahi from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has asked the the Ebonyi State House of Assembly to embark on the impeachment of the governor. The group said there is already a substantial breach of […]

APC governors celebrate Buni at 53

The governors on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) have celebrated the Chairman, National Caretaker Committee/Convention Planning Committee a d governor of Yobe state, Mai Mala Buni over his 53rd birthday anniversary. In a statement released media Friday in Abuja and signed by the Chairman of the forum and Kebbi state governor Abubakar Atiku […]

Senate President, Senator Musa Write Sahara Reporters Over Alleged False, Misleading, Report

…give seven days ultimatum to tender apology The Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan and Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, from Niger state, have written an online publication, Sahara Reporters over false and misleading report on the reappointment of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Counsel to Senator Lawan and […]

Lekki Shooting: Group accuses CNN of being Nigeria’s newest face of destabilisation

Following its controversial report on the Lekki toll gate shooting in Lagos on October 20, Cable News Network (CNN) has been branded as the newest face of foreign destabilisation in Nigeria  According to the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), the American-based news television channsl  has elevated the agenda of the divisive and destructive forces tirelessly working in conspiracy […]

Lekki Shooting: CNN desperately justifying past errors – Diaspora group

The Nigerians in Diaspora Monitoring Group (NDMG) has faulted Cable News Network (CNN) over its report on the Lekki shooting in Lagos State, adding that the American television station is desperate to restore its already lost credibility.  According to the Nigerians in Diaspora, CNN is under pressure to salvage whatever is left of its diminishing image and […]