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The governor of Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, has announced an indefinite 24-hour curfew in the state saying that protests against police brutality have "degenerated" into violence.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu said that criminals had hijacked the demonstrations "to unleash mayhem on our state".
Lagos has seen some of the largest of the recent wave of protests in Nigeria spearheaded by young people.
They began with a call for the disbandment of a notorious police unit.
President Muhammadu Buhari dissolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), accused of illegal detentions, assaults and shootings, on 11 October. Read more...
My official response to my failed and illegal arrest by NSA Death Squad on Friday, October 16, 2020.
On Monday, October 12, 2020, as an Associate Editor of Parrot, I wrote a news story in the Parrot Online News Web concerning the reported mysterious death of the former Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency, Mr Emmanuel Barteen Nyeswa. In the news story, I averred according to our credible sources, that the late Mr Nyeswa and his team had just concluded an audit of funds that was given to the Liberian government to combat the coronavirus pandemic and hence, presented their draft report to the auditees for their official responses before the final report is released. Read more...
Vote counting is under way after Guinea’s high-stakes election in which the 82-year-old President Alpha Conde is seeking a controversial third term.
Sunday’s vote follows months of political unrest, where dozens of people were killed during security crackdowns on mass anti-Conde protests.
Polls closed after a mostly calm day of voting, but there are already fears of post-election discord after Conde’s main opposition rival, Cellou Dalein Diallo, suggested the president may “cheat”. Read more...
Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor found her voice on Thursday October 15, following rising concerns about her health and return date to the country saying, her recuperation is about 75-percent and would be back soon.
VP Howard-Taylor, was flown out of the country on August 11, 2020, after health authorities here say she was diagnosed with COVID-19. Read more...
October 12, 2020: Monrovia Liberia: As the government of President Manneh Weah struggles to address the manifest sociopolitical and economic maladies it is confronted with and deal with the ghost of corruption in the public bureaucracy, the country is tragically witnessing mysterious deaths of prominent officials – all of whom by coincidence are auditors at two of government’s agencies. Read more...
–3 left unconscious
Riot police in Monrovia have dragged protesting judicial staffers, leaving protest leader Archie Ponpon and two others unconscious at the Temple of Justice on Capitol Hill Monday, 12 October.
While a program marking the opening of the Supreme Court was ongoing, the aggrieved judicial staffers in extension of their weeks of protests for Liberian dollars component of their salaries allegedly cut, assembled outside the court, beating drums and chanting Chief Justice Francis S. Korpor’s name.
In the process police forcefully dragged the aggrieved staffers out of the premises of the court yard, leaving three people unconscious. Read more...
Did E. Barten Nyeswa, Liberia’s chief of internal audit, really fall to his death?
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action,” wrote British author Ian Lancaster Fleming, author of the twelve-part James Bond series of spy novels. The quote comes from “You Only Live Twice”, the final book in the Bond series. We borrow this apt quote from the late Fleming, who was also a journalist and a British Naval intelligence officer, to learn a thing or two about the wave of mysterious deaths of ranking financial professionals in the Liberian government’s employ. Read more...
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End Sars protests: Nigeria governor imposes curfew in Lagos
My official response to my failed and illegal arrest by NSA Death Squad on Friday, October 16, 2020.
Vote count begins in Guinea after tense election
VP Taylor speaks out
As Mr. Nyenswah Killed Over Damning Audit Report of Covid-19 Funds – Killers Behind His Death Exposed
Another Internal Auditor Mysteriously Dead
