•Fuel queue The latest hike in the price of petrol has pushed up transport fares by over 50 percent in major cities across Nigeria. The newest price hikes, implemented by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s (NNPCL) Retail Management, range from N855 to N897 per litre, depending on the location, from the previous N568 – N617, [&hell...
Nigerian students under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has announced plans for a large-scale shutdown of all major cities in Nigeria, starting on September 15, 2024. According to NANS, the protest is in response to the recent fuel price increase, reports Daily Trust. Yesterday, there was an increase in the...
•Doctors protest The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has started a 7-day warning strike across all of its centres nationwide. The resident doctors strike is to clamour for the release of its kidnapped member, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been in captivity for over 8 months, reports Channels TV. NARD President, Dr Dele Abdullahi,...
•Soyinka and Tinubu Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has faulted the nationwide address by President Bola Tinubu, saying it failed to address the brutal crackdown of #EndBadGovernance protesters by security agencies. Angry Nigerians had taken to major cities across the country to lament the high cost of living, hardship, hunger, and pov...
•Dr. Rexkennedy Saltlove A political activist and public affairs analyst, Dr. Rexkennedy Saltlove, is the President/Executive Director, Citizens Rights and Empowerment Advocacy Initiative (CREMA Initiative). He spoke on the ongoing nationwide protests against bad governance, the Edo governorship elections and the crisis in Rivers State, report...
•Sowore and Adegboruwa Rights activist and Convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, has urged protesters to continue with the #EndBadGovernance protests nationwide. It was earlier reported that Human Rights Lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN asked youths to immediately suspend the demonstrations, reports The Nation. Adegboruwa is o...
•Protesters Nigerians have poured into the streets in major cities across the nation to protest against economic hardship despite the government’s last-minute push to prevent the demonstration. Inflation has reached 34 per cent owing majorly to the twin policies of subsidy removal and floating of the naira. That has pushed the cost of basic it...
Protesters today gathered at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja, following a court order that restricted their demonstration to the facility. Recall that Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, yesterday, issued an ex-parte order, restricting Abuja protesters to the National Stadium, otherwise ...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate is currently in an emergency session ahead of the nationwide hunger and hardship protests slated to begin tomorrow. The meeting is being chaired by the President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, reports Channels TV. The lawmakers observed a minute silence in honour of the late Senator Ifeanyi Uba ahead of [&hel...
Telecoms giant, MTN, has shut all its stores and service centres across Nigeria. It was gathered that the decision was due to the vandalisation of the company’s offices by aggrieved customers whose lines were disconnected in line with the government’s NIN-SIM linkage policy, reports The Nation. Yesterday, a group of angry customers had pulled ...
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