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From Sanni Onogu, Abuja   NIGERIAN Youths yesterday sent a “Save-Our-Soul” message to President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately come to the aid of new recruits in the Nigeria Police Academy who are currently placed on a daily feeding budget of N150.00. The young citizens under the umbrella of Nigerian Youths Peoples Assembly (NYPA) made the call at the end of a Special Legislative Plenary on the State of the Nation, the 2021 Budget and reform of the Police in Abuja. Delivering the Youth Declaration on Police Reform tagged: “The irreducible minimum path to peace” the President of the Assembly, Sunday Chibuzo Okereke asked Buhari to urgently save the lives of the new Police recruits at the Nigeria Police Academy. Okereke said it would be difficult for the country to have a decent Police service if it did nothing about this “shameful” condition of service and welfare for officers. “As young people, we are by this declaration sending a red SOS to the President, Federal Republic ...

  Cruel Kafala system, Covid-19 pandemic expose migrants to inhuman treatment Maimed, sexually assaulted victims frustrated, commit suicide   The quest for greener pastures in the Middle East countries has left many Nigerian migrants, mostly females, worse off than they were before they left the country. Many of them have been sexually assaulted, put in prison on trumped up charges and visited with cruel treatments their employers would not give to beasts. Kafala, a system that gives employers absolute powers over the migrants in parts of the region is compounded by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic which made it impossible for many of them to be paid for the period they slaved for their bosses, INNOCENT DURU reports.   JUMMY, a graduate of Computer Science, had heaved a sigh of relief after struggling to complete her university education. “It is time to reap the fruits of my labour”, she said to herself in the hope that she would soon secure a good job. He...

Nnendinso  Ogaziechi   In the past few weeks, Nigeria has been in the eye of the global storm literarily. The #EndSARS  movement, the ‘intervening’ rioters and ultimately the incidents at the Lekki tollgate on what is now referred to as the October 2020 black Tuesday had all gone viral. The #palliativegate is also in the news and seemed to have diverted attention and increased the number of casualties as private houses/shops, banks and some government agencies  were looted by some people who hid under the protest. However, the #EndSARS movement started off as a peaceful protest against the obnoxious activities of the police unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) who did everything that negate what the police in any country should stand for, “to serve and to protect”. There is documented evidence of their brutality across many states in Nigeria. Ironically, series of complaints from victims and their families seemed to have got little or no attention. The creati...

The 11-year-old boy who was arrested over his alleged involvement in an attack on a police station in Edo state has been relased. Human Rights Advocate, Kola Edokpayi has served an update. Recall, we brought you reports that the boy, identified as Gift Osayuhi was arrested for allegedly joining the gang of hoodlums that attacked […] The post UPDATE: Police release 11-year-old boy arrested over his alleged involvement in attack on a police station in Edo State. appeared first on YabaLeftOnline . source https://www.yabaleftonline.ng/update-police-release-11-year-old-boy-arrested-over-his-alleged-involvement-in-attack-on-a-police-station-in-edo-state/

Opesan Segun David, popularly Known by his stage “Shigo Okocan” is a fast rising Afro beat, songwriter, stage performer and recording artist from Nigeria. He has now released his new E.P. titled “What You Stand For”. The E.P. includes a 7-track listing titled: 1. What You Stand For. 2. Kere. 3. Motigbo. 4. L.O.V.E. 5. […] The post Music: Shigo Okocan – What You Stand For [EP] appeared first on YabaLeftOnline . source https://www.yabaleftonline.ng/music-shigo-okocan-what-you-stand-for-ep/

Femi Abbas   Monologue   THIS   is one of the periods in which newspaper or newsmagazine columnists find themselves in a dilemma. Such dilemma is not on whether to write or not. Rather, it is on the right issue that can be the subject of writing at a particular time. Ordinarily, the problem of a worthy columnist is not a dearth of ideas but a deluge of them. For an average columnist, thinking of a subject to write about is like placing a magnet at a strategic centre to attract many iron elements around. As a columnist thinks of a subject to write about, many other subjects get magnetised, and throw themselves torrentially to him for choice. And, in his search for a choice to be given priority, he becomes entangled in a proverbial cobweb of dilemma.  That is the situation in which yours sincerely is now ensnared psychologically. Today, the original issue planned to be addressed in this column is the recent ‘ENDSARS’ national mass protest and Nigerian gover...

Our Reporter   THE Senator representing Benue South District, Patrick Abba Moro, has condemned the escalating violence resulting from the ENDSARS protest. Moro, a former Minister of Interior,  acknowledged that in democratic societies all over the world, citizens have the right to protest to express their grievances and make certain demands from government on issues that are germane to their wellbeing. He, however, said protests must always be carried out in a manner that the rights of other persons not involved are not infringed upon and violence is not allowed to creep in. The Senator noted that it would not be in the interest of the people to allow protests to degenerate into violence leading to the destruction of lives and properties. Read Also:  ‘#EndSARS protests meant to split Nigeria’ “The people who are protesting have the right to protest. But like you rightly said the level of violence that is attending the protest now is certainly unacceptable. It is n...