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October 16, Top National News You Need To Know

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The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has sacked his security aide, James Nwafor. Singer Mayorkun has offered to help a man whose car was vandalised during one of the EndSARS protests in the Berger area of Lagos. Below are top trending news.

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The Federal Government has directed civil servants who have not been going to work since March when the lockdown declared to curtail the spread of COVID-19 started to return to work from Monday. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha; and the National Coordinator, Sanni Aliyu, disclosed this at the press briefing of the task force on Thursday.

 

The Federal Government has lamented that university students who should be in the classrooms have been “recruited” to join the ongoing #EndSARS protests. It blamed the development on the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said this at a reconciliation meeting between the government and ASUU officials on Thursday in Abuja.

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Youths of Kaduna State today came out in their good numbers in a peaceful protest amid public outcry that has since been going on in the West, South and East parts of Nigeria to ENDSARS and police brutality faced by Nigerians for long.

 

Singer Mayorkun has offered to help a man whose car was vandalised during one of the EndSARS protests in the Berger area of Lagos. Some of the EndSARS protesters gathered at Berger on Wednesday, October 14, and they were attacked by some thugs who were later overpowered.

 

The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has sacked his security aide, James Nwafor. Nwafor, who was a Senior Special Adviser to the governor on security, was relieved of his duty following allegations by #EndSARS protesters in Awka on Thursday. They alleged that Nwafor violated people’s rights during his reign as the Commander of SARS in Anambra.

 

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Three brothers are presently at a police cell in Ogun state for allegedly gangraping a teenager in Pata, Ifo area of the state.The Ogun Police Command said the suspects were arrested on Wednesday after the incident was reported at Ifo Police station by one Alimi Olasunkanmi an administrative officer of the Ogun State So-Safe Corps.

 

An ad hoc committee set up by the House of Representatives on the ongoing nationwide protests against the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force has summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu. The IGP is to appear before the special panel on October 22, 2020.

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A discreet investigation carried out by Anaedoonline on the main reason a top aide to Senator Ifeanyi Ubah resigned from his camp is because of a power tussle between him and Kamen Chuks, the Head of Strategic Communication of Ifeanyi Ubah. On Thursday, in a Facebook post, Amb Adichie released his resignation letter as Ifeanyi Ubah senior aide.

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