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POPE Francis I has intervened in the ongoing crisis in Nigeria by calling for prayers over the current violence and widespread  looting that has spread nationwide across the country asking that peace be returned.

SECURITY forces in Katsina State have been placed on high alert amid fears that the youths there will join the nationwide protests and raid local warehouses believed to be holding stocks of Covid-19 palliatives.

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has revealed that it will cost at least N1trn ($2.6bn) to repair the damage caused by the recent disturbances in Lagos State as a lot of public property was damaged and will bed to be rebuilt.

NIGERIA'S chief of army staff Lt General Tukur Buratai has ordered military commanders and troops to go after looters and hoodlums raiding warehouses and vandalising property across the country in the wake of the #EndSARS protests.

SEVERAL Nigerian television stations have been fined by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for inciting youths to violence during the #EndSARS protests that has led to widespread demonstrations across the country.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) It is crystal clear to the whole world now that the gulf between the haves and the have-nots in Nigeria is now totally unsustainable. No matter what anyone says, social convulsions are inevitable

(2) We are the poverty capital of the world with about 87m people living in extreme poverty. When nearly 90m of your citizens live on less than $2 a day, you are going to have a revolution whether you like it or not

BRITAIN has quietly reduced the £35,800 minimum salary for migrants to settle in the UK by almost 30% to £20,480 in a move that will greatly impact Nigerians wanting to work in the country.

MARTIN Luther King's son Martin Luther King III has added his voice to the condemnation of stifling demonstrations in Nigeria calling on the federal government to guarantee the freedom of peaceful protesters involved in the #EndSARS protests.

NIGERIA'S Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has been asked to investigate the activities of state governors who it is now known received Covid-19 palliatives from the federal government and stored them in private warehouses.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Over the last 24 hours, the social convulsions in Nigeria have taken on a new dimension with people attacking the homes of rich politicians in search of food and basic consumer items

(2) In Ibadan, the home of a senator was attacked and 200 motorcycles carted away by the dispossessed

(3) In Calabar, a politician’s home was also ransacked with hungry mobs helping themselves to the contents of his well-stacked warehouse