•Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has lamented the current hardship in Nigeria, stressing that “young Nigerians should be building careers, not selling their kidneys. In a post on his official X account, Atiku criticised Nigeria’s cost-of-living crisis under President Bola Tinubu, highlighting reports of desperate young people sellin...
•The protesters carrying placards The #TakeItBack Movement today staged protests in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of the country over worsening economic hardship, insecurity, inflation and what the organisers described as political repression under the Bola Tinubu administration. The protests, held under the banner of the “Festival of the Oppre...
•Dr. Chike Okogwu The National Leader of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Chike Okogwu, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to place governance above politics by confronting the economic hardship and security challenges confronting Nigerians. Responding to the president’s recent remarks on politi...
•Tinubu and fuel pump nozzle The Allied People’s Movement (APM) has called on the Tinubu-led federal government to publish a comprehensive and independently verifiable audit of all proceeds realised from the removal of fuel subsidy, arguing that Nigerians deserve to know how the trillions of naira reportedly saved since the policy took effect ...
Hundreds of supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Samo Village, Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State, today defected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), citing worsening economic hardship, insecurity and declining public confidence in the ruling party. The mass defection took place at the ADC State Secretariat in...
Civil servants under the umbrella of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, Trade Union Side have called on the federal government and state governments to approve and implement a 400 per cent increase in the current N70,000 national minimum wage to cushion the devastating effects of the country’s economic hardship. The...
•#EndBadGovernance protest Protesters today took to the streets of Lagos in a renewed #EndBadGovernance protest, using the occasion of Democracy Day to demand urgent government action on worsening economic hardship, insecurity, unemployment, and the rising cost of living. The protest, which drew activists, civil society groups, and concerned c...
•Protest A coalition of civil society organisations, organised labour unions, youth groups, community associations and prominent activists has declared June 12, Nigeria’s Democracy Day, a day of nationwide protest over worsening insecurity, economic hardship and deteriorating living conditions across the country. The coalition, led by human ri...
•Tinubu and Rotimi Amaechi Former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has lashed out at President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, accusing it of mismanaging public funds and worsening economic hardship. Amaechi, who spoke during an appearance on a DCL Hausa programme, said even state governors are grumbling under the current administrat...
•Rotimi Amaechi Former Rivers State governor and ex-Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, today said the ‘Emilokan’ philosophy that shaped the last presidential election had pushed Nigerians into hardship. He insisted that the country could no longer afford to choose leaders based on ethnicity, religion or whose ‘turn’ it was to rule, re...

