Ogun: Idiroko Border Residents are not Smugglers, Youths Caution Security Operatives. Youths in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State yesterday appealed to security agents operating In the area to see residents and indigenes as their brothers and sister which must be treated with love and respect when ever they are carrying out their civic responsibility rather than killing the innocent residents of the area anytime there is crisis between them and the people during any face off with smuggler who are mostly non indigenes of the area in the last five years. for the Youth Policy Forum, Deji Imoleayo spoke on Tuesday shortly after the youth embarked on peace walk to all the security divisional headquarters in the LGA in commemoration of 59th independence anniversary. Imoleayo also expressed concern that the residents are being treated like smugglers by security operatives because they live at the border areas between Nigeria and Benin Republic. He however u
2' FEATURED Police kill Lagos protester as mob burns van over xenophobia Published September 3, 2019 The ongoing protest at the Circle Mall, Jakande, in the Lekki area of Lagos State, has taken a tragic turn as a protester has been reportedly shot dead by men of the Nigeria Police Force. The PUNCH also learnt that a police van was set ablaze by an angry mob that had stormed the mall. A video posted on Twitter and confirmed by some residents showed a body on the floor as gunshots rent the air. Another video showed a police van burning. A third clip filmed by a motorist showed a man masked with a handkerchief wielding a cutlass. “What is happening? Why are all these boys doing like this? Are they fighting the police or Shoprite?” the motorist said. An actress, Belinda Effah, who was caught in the fracas, claimed that hoodlums had hijacked the protest. She added that the men had been attacking motorists and called for government’s hel