•Tinubu Renowned Professor of History and African Studies, Toyin Falola, says the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government has failed to address the major triggers for the #EndBadGovernance protests that reverberated in most states in Nigeria earlier in August. The septuagenarian professor at the University of Texas was a guest on Channels...
The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has condemned the Tinubu-led federal government’s handling of the recent protests, calling for an immediate end to hunger and bad governance in the country. The church’s bishops, who met in Abuja today, criticized the government’s insensitivity to the plight of citizens and its failure to address the ...
•Some protesters waving Russian flag in Kano The Kano State Police Command has transferred 76 suspects, including a foreign national, to the Force Headquarters in Abuja for discreet investigation on charges of sedition. The suspects were reportedly arrested for flying Russian flags during the recent nationwide hunger protests, reports Channels...
•Protesters Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has disclosed that some of the sponsors of the rioters who hijacked the planned peaceful protest against bad governance and hunger, flew out of the country on the eve of the protest before the police could apprehend them. “Before the protest, we had intelligence that some agents of [&he...
•Kano State CP, Salman Dogo Garba There was no single death recorded in Kano State during the #EndBadGovernance protest, according to the police. Commissioner of Police in Kano, Salman-Dogo Garba, said this during a press conference where suspects were paraded today. He said, “Going by the records, so far, we are not aware of any […]...
•#EndBadGovernnaceInNigeria protesters in Sokoto The people of the Samaru community in the Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State are mourning a 16-year-old boy, Ismail Muhammad, who was allegedly shot dead by soldiers on the first day of the nationwide hunger protest. Our correspondent, who visited the community and the home of the slain ...
•Wike and Justice Oriji Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, who gave the order restricting protesters of the just concluded #EndBadGovernance demonstration to MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja, hails from Obi Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, like Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike....
Labour yesterday rejected the reasons given by the police for its action at the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), which the union described as an invasion. On Friday, the police said its men raided an office within the NLC headquarters building but not the NLC offices, reports The Nation. “Detectives, armed with the […]...
•Protesters wave Russian flag Poland has denied that its nationals who were arrested by security operatives in Kano, Nigeria, waved the Russian flag. The detained Poles were arrested on August 6 in Kano for allegedly displaying Russian flags during the #EndBadGovernance protest held by some Nigerians against economic hardship in the country, r...
•Protesters Protests have resumed in the Federal Capital Territory, Ibadan, Akure, and Abeokuta today after a brief pause caused by raids and arrests of organisers. Recall that the hunger protest, which began on Thursday, August 1, saw a high level of enthusiasm on its first day across the country, but that excitement has since begun […...

