The United States Embassy in Nigeria has admonished its citizens to refrain from visiting its consulate office at Walter Carrington Crescent in Victoria Island, Lagos. The embassy gave the admonition against the backdrop of a planned protest against the killing of George Floyd. Floyd, an African-American man, was killed on Monday by a Minneapolis … Read more
Ayo Balogun, Nigerian afro beat sensation, better known as Wizkid, has reacted to police Brutality in Nigeria and United States. The multiple award winning artiste in a post on his official twitter page lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump, his US counterpart, over their inability to rein in on marauding police officers. Wizkid described … Read more
The wife of Derek Chauvin, the dismissed police officer who killed an unarmed blackman, George Floyd, in Minnesota has sought for divorce. Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck during his arrest despite repeated plea from him raise his knee from his neck as he was finding it difficult to breathe. Kellie Chauvin lawyer disclosed her plan … Read more
The government of Minnesota state has apprehended former police officer, Derek Chauvin, and charged him with third-degree murder over May 25 death of George Floyd. John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, announced this on Friday. Chauvin was found dismissed from the police this week after he was found culpable of premeditated … Read more
……Trump Threatens To Send Military Against Protesters Protests intensify over the death of George Floyd as protesters continue to rage in Minneapolis. Late Thursday night, cheering protesters broke into a Minneapolis police precinct station after the department abandoned it, setting it ablaze and igniting fireworks. A police spokesman confirmed late Thursday that staff had evacuated … Read more