Ekiti: Amotekun arrests 80-year-old Fatokun, 3 others for vandalising water facilities

July 20, 2023 Content Editor 0

An 80-year-old man, Pa Michael Fatokun, has been arrested by operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, code-named Amotekun Corps, Ekiti State Command, for allegedly vandalising equipment belonging to Ekiti State Water Corporation in Okemesi-Ekiti. Commandant of the corps, Brigadier Joe Komolafe (rtd) confirmed the arrest Wednesday while parading the suspects at command’s office in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital. Read More

Uzodimma, Diri, Bode-George urge new constitution, state police

July 20, 2023 Content Editor 0

Eminent Nigerians have insisted that Nigeria needs to come up with a new constitution that will reflect the wishes and aspirations of the people, stressing that further reliance on the 1999 constitution as solution to the country’s problem is waste of time, and will spell doom for the nation. This view was expressed at a public lecture organised by freedom Read More

Amotekun and tortuous journey, 2 years after

May 23, 2023 Barnabas Olabisi 0

Barnabas Olabisi in this report examines the South-west security outfit established to secure the region in 2020. The Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) codenamed Operation Amotekun which in Yoruba language means Leopard or Cheetah is a security outfit based in all six of the states of the South-west responsible for curbing insecurity in the region created with the aim of Read More