Members of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (JOHESU) have declared a seven-day warning strike, commencing from midnight today. The latest strike comes after a fifteen-day notice of industrial action issued to the federal government. While addressing journalists in Abuja, the national chairman of the unio...
•Flood No fewer than 259 people have been killed out of a total of 1,048,312 individuals affected by the recent flood disaster that ravaged 29 states across the country. Speaking on the current trend of flooding nationwide, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs. Zubaida Umar, disclosed during the National...
•Murtala Muhammed International Airport Aviation workers’ unions today announced plans to stage a peaceful protest on September 18, 2024. The General Secretary of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Ocheme Aba, and the Deputy General Secretary of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Frances Akinjole, discl...
•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...
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