The house of the former Senate Majority Leader in Calabar, Cross River State was attacked by hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSARS protest.
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Funke Egbemode, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation said this in a statement on Wednesday in Osogbo.
The accident occurred at about 1am on Saturday, with the FRSC confirming the death toll of two as earlier reported by The Eagle Online.
Ayade announced this when he visited the premises of the examination body on Tuesday in Calabar, to assess the extent of destruction.
In effect, authorities failed overtime to harness the energies, the risk taking and inquisitive nature as well as inventiveness of its burgeoning youthful population. They were busy twiddling their thumbs while danger lurked.
Aliyu, in a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Austine Elemue, on Friday in Abuja, described the hoodlums as “enemies of the state”.
The police announced on Wednesday that they arrested 238 suspects from whom 35 tractors, nine vehicles, more than 600 bags of fertiliser, 50 hand tractors and hoes and 18 bags of maize were recovered.
Adesina spoke on a Channels Television programme, Sunrise Daily, on Thursday in response to the violence that led to the looting of government warehouses and attack on private and public properties.
The boy was arrested in the uniform of a Police Sergeant, which was believed to have been taken from the attacked police station.
Ibrahim said this after hoodlums invaded the NYSC orientation camp in Kubwa, Abuja.
Speaking during a visit to Fagba in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State to assess the level of destruction of properties caused by last week’s ethnic clash between Yoruba and Hausa communities in the area, Sanwo-Olu said the State Government would be hard and very decisive on miscreants if they refuse to turn a new leaf.
Its Director-General, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, told the News Agency of Nigeria that some of the invaders included married women and young persons.
The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Taiwo Adewole, made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Okitipupa, after assessing the level of arson and vandalism of the buildings and other assets of the organisation.
Tara, who is the wife of presidential aspirant in the 2019 elections, Fela Durotoye, disclosed that she summoned up courage to visit her vandalised store after she learnt about the destruction.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that suspects under the guise of #EndSARS protesters vandalised vehicles belonging to the local government, newly renovated office of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and that of the Nigerian Peace Corps.
Davido, who took to his tweeter handle @davidofficial, to condemn the unfortunate development, urged those involved in the act to desist from such in future.
The acting Public Relations Officer of the command, ASP Donbey Peter, gave the advice in a statement on Monday in Jos.
The Governors and the Ministers were in Lagos on Sunday to commiserate with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the large-scale destruction of public and private facilities by hoodlums who had hijacked the #EndSARS protests.
The hoodlums seized on the curfew imposed by the Lagos State Government in the wake of the violence and looting that engulfed the state in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests in the country to carry out the attack.
Speaking in separate interviews with News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday, they said that the damage done by hoodlums who hijacked the hitherto peaceful protests could impose negative multiplier effects on the country’s economy.