•Tinubu The Secretary General of Jama’atu Nasir Islam (JNI), Professor Khalid Abubakar Aliyu as well as the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Archbishop Daniel C. Okoh, have noted that the increasing rate of hunger and insecurity in the country is worrisome. They made the observation at the 6th Annual Inter-Faith Peace Confere...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says the two-day protest by members of the union is about hunger and not just a clamour for a review of the minimum wage. While there was a meeting between the Federal Government and NLC authorities to forestall the protest, the dialogue ended in a deadlock, […]
•Policemen The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State, Waheed Ayilara, has deployed 3,200 police officers across the State after a meeting with the State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC ), affiliate bodies and other stakeholders given the planned protest by the labour Union. Police Public Relations Officer for the State SP Odiki ...
•Peter Obi Presidential Candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has expressed concern over the widespread hardship in the land. Commenting on the stampede that occurred during a rice auction the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) organised to ameliorate hardship in the land, Obi said it was unfortunate that Nigerians we...
•Security operatives Armed to the teeth security operatives yesterday took over the DSC and Effurun roundabouts in Uvwie local government area to prevent the “no to hunger and hardship” protest in Nigeria billed to commence from 6am in Uvwie and Effurun local government areas of Delta State. A Journalist and Bureau Chief South South of [&helli...
•Prof Anthony Kila Dear Readers, This weekend marks a year since Nigerians went to the polls to vote in the new administration led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. Like most things in Nigeria, the process was very contended, highly divisive, rowdy and very improvable; that is all done now anyway. […]
The high cost of living in the country is not sparing members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who are currently undergoing the 2024 Batch A, Stream 1 orientation in different camps across the country, as the corps members are complaining about the soaring food prices in the Mammy Markets in those camps. The […]
•Tinubu Protests broke out in Minna, Niger State capital, and Kano metropolis on Monday as residents took to the streets to demand an end to soaring cost of living in the country. Their action was understandable: Inflation was shooting through the roof, reports Sunday Vanguard. The federal government immediately responded by convening an emerg...
•Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has lamented the killing of another of the captives abducted by kidnappers from their homes in the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT). Folorunsho Ariyo, a 13-year-old student, was one of 10 people kidnapped from Sagwari Estate Layout in Dutse, Bwari Area Council of the FCT, on January 7, 2024. [&hellip...