#EndSARS: 25 Lagos police formations burnt, five vandalised

 #EndSARS: 25 Lagos police formations burnt, five vandalised

By Precious Igbonwelundu 

At least, 25 police formations were razed and five others vandalised in Lagos during the violence that trailed the #ENDSARS protests last week, findings by The Nation has shown. 

The number comprises 14 divisions, three commands and three barracks. The Police Command however, 

said at the weekend it had started taking stock of the damages it suffered, including the exact number of its men and officers killed and injured during the violence. 

Sanwo-Olu: Lagos needs N1tr to fix destroyed assets

 Sanwo-Olu: Lagos needs N1tr to fix destroyed assets

By Victor Oluwasegun

 It will cost not less than N1 trillion to rebuild Lagos State following last week’s massive destruction of public assets, according to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. 

The state was the epicenter of looting, arson and destruction between Wednesday and Friday last week. It cuts across all areas of endeavor, including businesses, government and private.

BREAKING: Gunmen kidnap Oyo LG boss, Adeleke

 BREAKING: Gunmen kidnap Oyo LG boss, Adeleke

(Olufemi Olaniyi and Wale Oyewale , Ibadan)

Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped the Chairman , Iganna Local Council Development Area of Oyo State , Mr Olayiwola Adeleke.

 Our correspondent gathered that Adeleke was kidnapped together with his driver on Sunday night. The council boss was said to be travelling along the Okeho -Ado Awaye road on his way to Ibadan for a meeting scheduled to hold with Governor Seyi Makinde when the gunmen abducted him. 

The details of the incident were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report . The Police Public Relations Officer , Oyo State Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, who confirmed the incident,

 said , “ Information reaching me reveals that he was kidnapped along the Ado Aw aye - Iseyin Road.” 

“ Efforts are being intensified to get him released and arrest the culprits. ” Also, the Chairman , Oodua Peoples Congress in Oyo State,

 Mr Rotimi Olumo, when contacted, said the council chairman was kidnapped along Iseyi -Okeho area . He said, 

“ I have called my people and they said they had started combing the forests in the area in search of him. 

” Details later …

One dead in Lagos gas tanker accident

 One dead in Lagos gas tanker accident

A 28 -year - old man, Sanusi Moruff , lost his life in a gas tanker accident that occurred in Lagos State. The Lagos State Emergency Agency made this known , saying that the accident happened at the Fadeyo area of Lagos State. 

In a series of tweets on Monday, the agency said the corpse of the deceased had been handed over to members of his family. LASEMA said, 

“ Upon the arrival of the Cobra Squad at the scene of the accident that involved an empty tanker, 

Journalist shot in Lokoja

Journalist shot in Lokoja

 A journalist with the Sun Newspaper , Emmanuel Adeyemi, has been shot. Adeyemi was on his way to the Nigerian Union of Journalists Secretariat when he was shot. The drive -by shooters also shot another passerby , whose identity could not be immediately ascertained .

The passerby was said to have just arrived from Benue and caught up in the middle of the mayhem . The gunshots in Lokoja,

 the Kogi state capital followed the resumption of looting in another warehouse in Zone 8 area . 

A similar incident was recorded overnight when the ADP warehouse was invaded and bags of fertilizer carted away

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International Day of Friendship

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Once again I love you all

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Children are employed in both formal and informal sectors.

Children are employed in both formal and informal sectors.

The term “child labor” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical-mental development. It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children, and interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work. 

THE ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOR: AN IMPETUS fOR NIGERIA DEVELOPMENT

*THE ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOR: AN IMPETUS fOR NIGERIA DEVELOPMENT*

Children are the glory and joy of life. Children are the gift of God on earth. They are the basis of development in any nation. With these ubiquitous essence of children to life and its function to nation, its however saddened to know that some children are deprived from their right to education, right to enjoy childhood and other basic right necessary for children to develop to their full potential as a result of works that is physically, mentally, socially and morally harmful to children known as child labor.

Child labor as a cankerworm all around the world maybe responsible for the reason as to why countries thrive and some fail. As they say "children are the leaders of tomorrow". This means that nations that are willing to provide viable and visionary leaders that will contribute to the nation development, to this extent should be ready to shun child labor because child labor is an impediment to child development which may leads to the nation impediment.

GIVE THEM WHAT THEY DESERVE : International day Against child Labour

GIVE THEM WHAT THEY DESERVE

We all wished for a better life,

Such,that is full of milk and honey with no cause to strife. 

We all hoped for superfluous riches and wealth,

And every pleasure and treasure on the surface of earth. 

It was neither our desire to be at the end of the food chain,

Nor our fault to be drenched by the shameful rains. 

We wanted to be sincerely educated at all cost,

Against our unfair destinies, this became so worst. 

We wanted to dress up good and smell so nice,

But to rise, we couldn't afford the exorbitant price. 

In public places, we wanted to speak loud and clear,

Alas! We were ridiculed to the point of ceaseless tears.