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The Niger State government says it has arrested some of the bandits who abducted students of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyyan School, Tegina in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state.

SaharaReporters had reported how gunmen on Sunday stormed the police station in the town and went round shooting sporadically into the air to scare residents before breaking into the private school where they abducted over 100 children attending Islamic lectures.

The school, which consists of nursery and primary arms, also hosts Islamiyya students in the evening and at weekends.

Tegina is the hometown of the local government chairperson, Isma’il Moddibo. It is in the same local government area with Kagara where bandits earlier this year abducted many students but later released them after negotiation with the state government. See Also Insecurity Bandits Vowed To Kill 156 Kidnapped Islamic Schoolchildren If We Miss Ransom Deadline– Headmaster 0 Comments 10 Hours Ago

Speaking on Tuesday, deputy governor of the state, Alhaji Ahmed Ketso said “some of the bandits are in our custody.”

Ketso, who didn’t state the number of bandits arrested, also said security agents were already on the trail of the rest of the bandits with a view to rescuing the children.

The deputy governor, however, ruled out payment of any ransom but assured that the abducted children would be rescued the same way the Kagara Science College boys were rescued.

“We don’t pay ransom to abductors. We are trying to negotiate to see how we can bring them back safely.

“But first of all, we are trying to get in touch with the parents of those abducted because some of them came from other states to acquire the Islamic education. The government does not know their parents or where they came from.

“We are still taking the census of the children to know the exact number that were actually abducted. Nevertheless, the government will do everything possible to ensure their safe rescue,” he said. 

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The Niger State government says it has arrested some of the bandits who abducted students of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyyan School, Tegina in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state.

SaharaReporters had reported how gunmen on Sunday stormed the police station in the town and went round shooting sporadically into the air to scare residents before breaking into the private school where they abducted over 100 children attending Islamic lectures.

The school, which consists of nursery and primary arms, also hosts Islamiyya students in the evening and at weekends.

Tegina is the hometown of the local government chairperson, Isma’il Moddibo. It is in the same local government area with Kagara where bandits earlier this year abducted many students but later released them after negotiation with the state government. See Also Insecurity Bandits Vowed To Kill 156 Kidnapped Islamic Schoolchildren If We Miss Ransom Deadline– Headmaster 0 Comments 10 Hours Ago

Speaking on Tuesday, deputy governor of the state, Alhaji Ahmed Ketso said “some of the bandits are in our custody.”

Ketso, who didn’t state the number of bandits arrested, also said security agents were already on the trail of the rest of the bandits with a view to rescuing the children.

The deputy governor, however, ruled out payment of any ransom but assured that the abducted children would be rescued the same way the Kagara Science College boys were rescued.

“We don’t pay ransom to abductors. We are trying to negotiate to see how we can bring them back safely.

“But first of all, we are trying to get in touch with the parents of those abducted because some of them came from other states to acquire the Islamic education. The government does not know their parents or where they came from.

“We are still taking the census of the children to know the exact number that were actually abducted. Nevertheless, the government will do everything possible to ensure their safe rescue,” he said. 

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Three soldiers died on Monday while one was critically injured after the convoy of Mohammed Babangida, son of former military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd), had an accident on the Minna-Suleja Highway in Niger State. 

SaharaReporters learnt that Mohammed, who was travelling with his family to Abuja, narrowly escaped death as his convoy ran into an articulated vehicle loaded with tomatoes along the Minna-Suleja Road.

It was gathered that the soldiers died in the accident after their black Prado SUV had a head-on collision with the articulated vehicle travelling in the opposite direction.

Eyewitnesses said Mohammed Babangida was travelling to Abuja in a Honda Space bus with other members of his family behind the security vehicle.

“Three soldiers died and one was left critically injured as the convoy of Mohammed Babangida, the son of the former military Head of State was involved in the accident. He was travelling to Abuja in a Honda Space bus with other members of his family behind the security vehicle.

“No member of the Babangida family was hurt in the accident. The injured soldier is currently receiving treatment at the National Hospital in Abuja,” an eyewitness told SaharaReporters.

The Niger State Police Command could not be reached for comment as of the time of filing this report.

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Three soldiers died on Monday while one was critically injured after the convoy of Mohammed Babangida, son of former military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd), had an accident on the Minna-Suleja Highway in Niger State. 

SaharaReporters learnt that Mohammed, who was travelling with his family to Abuja, narrowly escaped death as his convoy ran into an articulated vehicle loaded with tomatoes along the Minna-Suleja Road.

It was gathered that the soldiers died in the accident after their black Prado SUV had a head-on collision with the articulated vehicle travelling in the opposite direction.

Eyewitnesses said Mohammed Babangida was travelling to Abuja in a Honda Space bus with other members of his family behind the security vehicle.

“Three soldiers died and one was left critically injured as the convoy of Mohammed Babangida, the son of the former military Head of State was involved in the accident. He was travelling to Abuja in a Honda Space bus with other members of his family behind the security vehicle.

“No member of the Babangida family was hurt in the accident. The injured soldier is currently receiving treatment at the National Hospital in Abuja,” an eyewitness told SaharaReporters.

The Niger State Police Command could not be reached for comment as of the time of filing this report.

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The remains of a female officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Josephine Cynthia Onche, who went missing 18 months ago have been discovered in a shallow grave in the Obi Local Government Area of Benue state.

Cynthia, who was Idoma and of Otukpo origin, suddenly went missing in December 2019 while her wedding plans were underway.

The NSCDC officer was declared missing by her family in the Otukpo Local Government Area of the state in December 2019, a few days to her wedding.

After several months of uncertainty regarding her whereabouts, Cynthia’s body was exhumed last week in Obi LGA.

Her remains were discovered after her prospective husband, who had been arrested, took security operatives to the shallow grave.

“An Okada man (commercial motorcyclist) who knew what happened to the late Cynthia Onche went to her family members and gave them the report.

“This led security operatives to arrest the groom who in turn led the police to Ogun State where they arrested the native doctor alleged to have performed the ritual at Obi LGA before his relocation to the South-West state.

“While the suspected killer groom and the native doctor have been allegedly held by the police in Otukpo, the family of the late security woman exhumed her remains and organised a burial on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021,” a family source told journalists.

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The remains of a female officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Josephine Cynthia Onche, who went missing 18 months ago have been discovered in a shallow grave in the Obi Local Government Area of Benue state.

Cynthia, who was Idoma and of Otukpo origin, suddenly went missing in December 2019 while her wedding plans were underway.

The NSCDC officer was declared missing by her family in the Otukpo Local Government Area of the state in December 2019, a few days to her wedding.

After several months of uncertainty regarding her whereabouts, Cynthia’s body was exhumed last week in Obi LGA.

Her remains were discovered after her prospective husband, who had been arrested, took security operatives to the shallow grave.

“An Okada man (commercial motorcyclist) who knew what happened to the late Cynthia Onche went to her family members and gave them the report.

“This led security operatives to arrest the groom who in turn led the police to Ogun State where they arrested the native doctor alleged to have performed the ritual at Obi LGA before his relocation to the South-West state.

“While the suspected killer groom and the native doctor have been allegedly held by the police in Otukpo, the family of the late security woman exhumed her remains and organised a burial on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021,” a family source told journalists.

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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called for the scrapping of the name, ‘Nigeria’.

HURIWA called on the National Assembly to consider a new name for the country in its proposed constitutional amendment.

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According to the group, the name 'Nigeria' has no root in the country since it was given by a white lady, who coined the term.

History books taught that a British journalist and writer, Flora Louise Shaw, popularly known as Lady Lugard, coined the name “Nigeria” in 1897.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, noted that the name is one of the major reasons some people are referring to Nigeria as a zoo.

One of such persons is Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who addresses his homeland as a zoo.

Onwubiko said, “Another proposition I want to make is about the name ‘Nigeria’. In amending the constitution, the name Nigeria should be scrapped. It is a foreign contraption given to us by a girl from Briton.

“None of our ancestors gave us that name Nigeria. Are we saying that we don’t have …we in HURIWA can give the National Assembly one hundred names if they are looking for a name to give Nigeria.

“Nigeria is not our name. Nigeria is a name that was imposed on us by…don’t look at it like I’m talking down on the girl, a girl who sat down somewhere after taking a cup or two of ogogoro (local gin) and just said, ‘Nigeria’ and we just accepted it.

“My father was not there. Our ancestors were not there. So how can we accept a baptismal name that was imposed on us? You cannot name a child in its absence. Did any Nigerian give Britain the name ‘Great Britain’?

“We cannot continue with a name given to us by a girl who came from Britain to visit her boyfriend and sat somewhere and say Nigeria. We should first of all reject the name Nigeria and carve a name for ourselves.

“Other countries all over Africa decided to do that some of them they gave Gold Coast and they rejected it because we’re not doing slave trade here. They carved a new name for themselves.

“We’re all aware that most of the countries in Africa changed their names, so why not we change ours. Let’s change this name. This name has become problematic to us.

“That’s why a mad man is somewhere saying Nigeria is a zoo. Maybe once we change the name, they’ll stop calling us zoo. We’re no longer in the zoo.

“When someone keeps calling you a zoo if you don’t take the time you’ll start behaving like someone in the zoo. So let us change this name Nigeria.”

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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called for the scrapping of the name, ‘Nigeria’.

HURIWA called on the National Assembly to consider a new name for the country in its proposed constitutional amendment.

File Photo: Nigeria on the map

According to the group, the name 'Nigeria' has no root in the country since it was given by a white lady, who coined the term.

History books taught that a British journalist and writer, Flora Louise Shaw, popularly known as Lady Lugard, coined the name “Nigeria” in 1897.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, noted that the name is one of the major reasons some people are referring to Nigeria as a zoo.

One of such persons is Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who addresses his homeland as a zoo.

Onwubiko said, “Another proposition I want to make is about the name ‘Nigeria’. In amending the constitution, the name Nigeria should be scrapped. It is a foreign contraption given to us by a girl from Briton.

“None of our ancestors gave us that name Nigeria. Are we saying that we don’t have …we in HURIWA can give the National Assembly one hundred names if they are looking for a name to give Nigeria.

“Nigeria is not our name. Nigeria is a name that was imposed on us by…don’t look at it like I’m talking down on the girl, a girl who sat down somewhere after taking a cup or two of ogogoro (local gin) and just said, ‘Nigeria’ and we just accepted it.

“My father was not there. Our ancestors were not there. So how can we accept a baptismal name that was imposed on us? You cannot name a child in its absence. Did any Nigerian give Britain the name ‘Great Britain’?

“We cannot continue with a name given to us by a girl who came from Britain to visit her boyfriend and sat somewhere and say Nigeria. We should first of all reject the name Nigeria and carve a name for ourselves.

“Other countries all over Africa decided to do that some of them they gave Gold Coast and they rejected it because we’re not doing slave trade here. They carved a new name for themselves.

“We’re all aware that most of the countries in Africa changed their names, so why not we change ours. Let’s change this name. This name has become problematic to us.

“That’s why a mad man is somewhere saying Nigeria is a zoo. Maybe once we change the name, they’ll stop calling us zoo. We’re no longer in the zoo.

“When someone keeps calling you a zoo if you don’t take the time you’ll start behaving like someone in the zoo. So let us change this name Nigeria.”

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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called for the scrapping of the name, ‘Nigeria’.

HURIWA called on the National Assembly to consider a new name for the country in its proposed constitutional amendment.

File Photo: Nigeria on the map

According to the group, the name 'Nigeria' has no root in the country since it was given by a white lady, who coined the term.

History books taught that a British journalist and writer, Flora Louise Shaw, popularly known as Lady Lugard, coined the name “Nigeria” in 1897.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, noted that the name is one of the major reasons some people are referring to Nigeria as a zoo.

One of such persons is Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who addresses his homeland as a zoo.

Onwubiko said, “Another proposition I want to make is about the name ‘Nigeria’. In amending the constitution, the name Nigeria should be scrapped. It is a foreign contraption given to us by a girl from Briton.

“None of our ancestors gave us that name Nigeria. Are we saying that we don’t have …we in HURIWA can give the National Assembly one hundred names if they are looking for a name to give Nigeria.

“Nigeria is not our name. Nigeria is a name that was imposed on us by…don’t look at it like I’m talking down on the girl, a girl who sat down somewhere after taking a cup or two of ogogoro (local gin) and just said, ‘Nigeria’ and we just accepted it.

“My father was not there. Our ancestors were not there. So how can we accept a baptismal name that was imposed on us? You cannot name a child in its absence. Did any Nigerian give Britain the name ‘Great Britain’?

“We cannot continue with a name given to us by a girl who came from Britain to visit her boyfriend and sat somewhere and say Nigeria. We should first of all reject the name Nigeria and carve a name for ourselves.

“Other countries all over Africa decided to do that some of them they gave Gold Coast and they rejected it because we’re not doing slave trade here. They carved a new name for themselves.

“We’re all aware that most of the countries in Africa changed their names, so why not we change ours. Let’s change this name. This name has become problematic to us.

“That’s why a mad man is somewhere saying Nigeria is a zoo. Maybe once we change the name, they’ll stop calling us zoo. We’re no longer in the zoo.

“When someone keeps calling you a zoo if you don’t take the time you’ll start behaving like someone in the zoo. So let us change this name Nigeria.”

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A Facebook user who identified himself as Ola Cee has narrated how policemen from Oluyole Divisional Headquarters, Ibadan, Oyo state detained him illegally.

This comes a few days after a young man who identified himself as Oluwaseun lamented the extortion of N100,000 from him by men attached to the police station located in the Ring Road area of Ibadan.

According to Oluwaseun, he and his brother were treated like criminals and forced to pay N100,000.

“So he asked me to unlock my phone but I initially refused. So, they threatened to kill me and my younger brother if I refused to cooporate with them. They brought out a 'shocker' (taser), so I obliged. They then checked my phone and found nothing incriminating, but insisted I was a fraudster and was too fresh to be a builder.

“I was asked to pay the sum of N1,000,000 but I told them I didn’t have up to that amount. Later on, they asked me to pay N500,000 even without telling me what I did wrong.

“I begged them but they insisted on collecting N100,000. Meanwhile, my brother just collected over N100,000 he wanted to pay in the bank as his school fees, I think that was what that officer, Ben saw that made him to suspect us. They told us to go and bring the cash and removed N100,000 from it.

“After taking the N100,000 by force, they released us and asked us to go. As I was going out, that officer, Ben, came to meet me and gave me his phone number. Here is the number: 08125758821, he told me to call him anytime I need police assistance. 

“He collected my number as well and threatened to kill me if I informed anybody about what happened,” he had told SaharaReporters.

Commenting on the story on Facebook, Ola Cee alleged he was illegally arrested and detained by men of the Oluyole Divisional Headquarters and that his family was forced to bail him with N10,000.

He wrote, “Similar thing happened to me at the same Oluyole Police Station. They found nothing on me but me changed it to serious film for the officers (sic). Even their OC was amazed by my madness, they asked me to pay N50, 000 and I said I can’t pay than N3, 000; even the N3, 000, I’d call people to transfer to me. They had to lock me up, until my people came the following day and they were begging them to collect N10, 000. I still stood on that N3,000 if not, they should return me back to the cell but my people didn’t accept.”

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A Facebook user who identified himself as Ola Cee has narrated how policemen from Oluyole Divisional Headquarters, Ibadan, Oyo state detained him illegally.

This comes a few days after a young man who identified himself as Oluwaseun lamented the extortion of N100,000 from him by men attached to the police station located in the Ring Road area of Ibadan.

According to Oluwaseun, he and his brother were treated like criminals and forced to pay N100,000.

“So he asked me to unlock my phone but I initially refused. So, they threatened to kill me and my younger brother if I refused to cooporate with them. They brought out a 'shocker' (taser), so I obliged. They then checked my phone and found nothing incriminating, but insisted I was a fraudster and was too fresh to be a builder.

“I was asked to pay the sum of N1,000,000 but I told them I didn’t have up to that amount. Later on, they asked me to pay N500,000 even without telling me what I did wrong.

“I begged them but they insisted on collecting N100,000. Meanwhile, my brother just collected over N100,000 he wanted to pay in the bank as his school fees, I think that was what that officer, Ben saw that made him to suspect us. They told us to go and bring the cash and removed N100,000 from it.

“After taking the N100,000 by force, they released us and asked us to go. As I was going out, that officer, Ben, came to meet me and gave me his phone number. Here is the number: 08125758821, he told me to call him anytime I need police assistance. 

“He collected my number as well and threatened to kill me if I informed anybody about what happened,” he had told SaharaReporters.

Commenting on the story on Facebook, Ola Cee alleged he was illegally arrested and detained by men of the Oluyole Divisional Headquarters and that his family was forced to bail him with N10,000.

He wrote, “Similar thing happened to me at the same Oluyole Police Station. They found nothing on me but me changed it to serious film for the officers (sic). Even their OC was amazed by my madness, they asked me to pay N50, 000 and I said I can’t pay than N3, 000; even the N3, 000, I’d call people to transfer to me. They had to lock me up, until my people came the following day and they were begging them to collect N10, 000. I still stood on that N3,000 if not, they should return me back to the cell but my people didn’t accept.”

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Operatives of Amotekun Corps in Oyo State on Tuesday arrested a suspected human parts merchant, Mutiu Abdul-Rasheed, over dealing in human body parts for ritual purposes.

The corps said the 40-year-old man was caught with fresh hands of some persons and other body parts.

Abdul-Rasheed, who reportedly hails from Ede in Osun State, said he belonged to a gang involved in getting fresh human parts for some people and at the same time exhuming dead bodies of people that they knew their names and parents' names before their demise. But other members of the gang were said to be at large.

The Commandant of Amotekun Corps in the state, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd) told journalists that the suspect was investigated for some months before he was nabbed. He added that "ironically, calls have been coming in and individuals have been pressing for his release."

However, Olayanju did not mention the names of people that had been pressurising the security outfit to release the suspect, and he did not also give any indication whether the people calling for the suspect's release are private citizens or public office holders.

The gang was said to have operated in the Lagelu area of Ibadan before the Abdul-Rasheed was caught. 

Abdul-Rasheed said: "We only exhume bodies that are known to us because we must know the dead person when he or she was alive. 

"We must also know his or her name as well as their mother's name. Knowing the name of the mother of the dead person that we want to sell the body parts costs from those that buy the human parts from us more." 

Items recovered from the suspect include guns, charms, decaying body parts, motorcycle and car.

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Operatives of Amotekun Corps in Oyo State on Tuesday arrested a suspected human parts merchant, Mutiu Abdul-Rasheed, over dealing in human body parts for ritual purposes.

The corps said the 40-year-old man was caught with fresh hands of some persons and other body parts.

Abdul-Rasheed, who reportedly hails from Ede in Osun State, said he belonged to a gang involved in getting fresh human parts for some people and at the same time exhuming dead bodies of people that they knew their names and parents' names before their demise. But other members of the gang were said to be at large.

The Commandant of Amotekun Corps in the state, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd) told journalists that the suspect was investigated for some months before he was nabbed. He added that "ironically, calls have been coming in and individuals have been pressing for his release."

However, Olayanju did not mention the names of people that had been pressurising the security outfit to release the suspect, and he did not also give any indication whether the people calling for the suspect's release are private citizens or public office holders.

The gang was said to have operated in the Lagelu area of Ibadan before the Abdul-Rasheed was caught. 

Abdul-Rasheed said: "We only exhume bodies that are known to us because we must know the dead person when he or she was alive. 

"We must also know his or her name as well as their mother's name. Knowing the name of the mother of the dead person that we want to sell the body parts costs from those that buy the human parts from us more." 

Items recovered from the suspect include guns, charms, decaying body parts, motorcycle and car.

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Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has vowed not to stop protesting against the bad government of President Muhammadu Buhari even if he is left with one leg and in a wheelchair.

Sowore disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, after he was discharged from the hospital where he had been receiving treatment as a result of injuries he sustained from a gunshot on Monday. 

Sowore at the hospital after being shot SaharaReporters Media

The former presidential candidate was shot in the leg at close range by a policewoman, CSP Altine Daniel during a peaceful protest against insecurity and poverty in the country.

He was discharged after a team of doctors battled to save his life. However, the activist still walks with some difficulty.

The activist said he remained resolute in his fight to see a better Nigeria despite the desperation and intimidation posed by the Buhari regime to silence and eliminate him at all cost.

"If there is a protest today and somebody can put me in a wheelchair, I will go. Let them come and shoot me there but one thing I know for sure is that they won't get away with this. 

"The regime is desperate and being desperate, they will do a lot of crazy things to discourage people like me and those that may follow our lead from challenging the incompetence, wickedness, cruelty and inhumane way the regime conducts its affairs," he said.  See Also ACTIVISM How Sowore Was Shot By CSP Altine Daniel During Protest Against Insecurity In Abuja 0 Comments 1 Day Ago

He, therefore, called on Nigerians to come out en masse on June 12 to protest against the senseless killings, insecurity, poverty, corruption and bad governance which have become the trademark of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government.

According to him, he was at Unity Fountain where he was shot to attend a peaceful protest against growing insecurity in the country. 

The protest was organised by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN). 

The activist said the police, upon sighting him and his group, hurriedly locked the gate of the fountain area, preventing them from entering. 

The activist who narrated how he was shot said he was the target and the aim was to terminate his life for challenging and speaking against the systemic injustice in the country. 

He said, "When we got to Unity Fountain, we engaged the police that it is our right to protest and the police need not to shut the gate against us but they refused.   See Also ACTIVISM You Are A 'Danger' To Democracy, Activists Slam Buhari Over Attack on Sowore 0 Comments 18 Hours Ago

"At this point, I asked the Barrister beside me to reach the commissioner of police and he called him and put him on the speaker phone and we told him that it is despicable of the police to shut the gate and that it is our constitutional right to protest and he responded that he had no hand in it. He promised to talk to the people there to open the gate.

"When I looked back, I discovered that about five trucks of policemen had arrived at the scene and we started singing solidarity songs and this was being live-streamed on my page at this point and from nowhere, this woman whom I later learnt was CSP in the police approached me with a gun, which is referred to as Federal Riot Gun. It looks like a double-barrelled gun. It is used in shooting projectiles or teargas. It is not meant to be shot at a person at such a close range.

"She looked at me and said 'Sowore! You are the one here and she shot me.' I started noticing blood was running in my jean trousers. I discovered that I couldn't walk anymore and I fell to the ground. Upon falling to the ground, she instructed her men to shoot more teargas in my direction apparently to prevent anybody from saving me." 

The human rights activist thanked Nigerians at home and abroad for their support and prayers for him while he was in the hospital. 

Civil society groups, lawyers and activists have condemned the action of police and called for the arrest and prosecution of the policewoman and her team for attempted murder.

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Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has vowed not to stop protesting against the bad government of President Muhammadu Buhari even if he is left with one leg and in a wheelchair.

Sowore disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, after he was discharged from the hospital where he had been receiving treatment as a result of injuries he sustained from a gunshot on Monday. 

Sowore at the hospital after being shot SaharaReporters Media

The former presidential candidate was shot in the leg at close range by a policewoman, CSP Altine Daniel during a peaceful protest against insecurity and poverty in the country.

He was discharged after a team of doctors battled to save his life. However, the activist still walks with some difficulty.

The activist said he remained resolute in his fight to see a better Nigeria despite the desperation and intimidation posed by the Buhari regime to silence and eliminate him at all cost.

"If there is a protest today and somebody can put me in a wheelchair, I will go. Let them come and shoot me there but one thing I know for sure is that they won't get away with this. 

"The regime is desperate and being desperate, they will do a lot of crazy things to discourage people like me and those that may follow our lead from challenging the incompetence, wickedness, cruelty and inhumane way the regime conducts its affairs," he said.  See Also ACTIVISM How Sowore Was Shot By CSP Altine Daniel During Protest Against Insecurity In Abuja 0 Comments 1 Day Ago

He, therefore, called on Nigerians to come out en masse on June 12 to protest against the senseless killings, insecurity, poverty, corruption and bad governance which have become the trademark of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government.

According to him, he was at Unity Fountain where he was shot to attend a peaceful protest against growing insecurity in the country. 

The protest was organised by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN). 

The activist said the police, upon sighting him and his group, hurriedly locked the gate of the fountain area, preventing them from entering. 

The activist who narrated how he was shot said he was the target and the aim was to terminate his life for challenging and speaking against the systemic injustice in the country. 

He said, "When we got to Unity Fountain, we engaged the police that it is our right to protest and the police need not to shut the gate against us but they refused.   See Also ACTIVISM You Are A 'Danger' To Democracy, Activists Slam Buhari Over Attack on Sowore 0 Comments 18 Hours Ago

"At this point, I asked the Barrister beside me to reach the commissioner of police and he called him and put him on the speaker phone and we told him that it is despicable of the police to shut the gate and that it is our constitutional right to protest and he responded that he had no hand in it. He promised to talk to the people there to open the gate.

"When I looked back, I discovered that about five trucks of policemen had arrived at the scene and we started singing solidarity songs and this was being live-streamed on my page at this point and from nowhere, this woman whom I later learnt was CSP in the police approached me with a gun, which is referred to as Federal Riot Gun. It looks like a double-barrelled gun. It is used in shooting projectiles or teargas. It is not meant to be shot at a person at such a close range.

"She looked at me and said 'Sowore! You are the one here and she shot me.' I started noticing blood was running in my jean trousers. I discovered that I couldn't walk anymore and I fell to the ground. Upon falling to the ground, she instructed her men to shoot more teargas in my direction apparently to prevent anybody from saving me." 

The human rights activist thanked Nigerians at home and abroad for their support and prayers for him while he was in the hospital. 

Civil society groups, lawyers and activists have condemned the action of police and called for the arrest and prosecution of the policewoman and her team for attempted murder.

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President Muhammadu Buhari says those who want to destroy his government will receive the shock of their lives as his administration will do everything possible to ensure they fail.

Buhari disclosed this on Tuesday after he received a briefing from the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu; and other electoral commissioners.

The president said the sponsors and orchestrators of insecurity in the country are doing so because they want his administration to fail.

According to him, his government will get “harder” on those hellbent on destroying Nigeria.

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President Muhammadu Buhari says those who want to destroy his government will receive the shock of their lives as his administration will do everything possible to ensure they fail.

Buhari disclosed this on Tuesday after he received a briefing from the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu; and other electoral commissioners.

The president said the sponsors and orchestrators of insecurity in the country are doing so because they want his administration to fail.

According to him, his government will get “harder” on those hellbent on destroying Nigeria.

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President Muhammadu Buhari says those who want to destroy his government will receive the shock of their lives as his administration will do everything possible to ensure they fail.

Buhari disclosed this on Tuesday after he received a briefing from the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu; and other electoral commissioners.

The president said the sponsors and orchestrators of insecurity in the country are doing so because they want his administration to fail.

According to him, his government will get “harder” on those hellbent on destroying Nigeria.

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