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 ...
The Department of State Services (DSS) is asking persons and groups yet to identify themselves in the public as leaders of the plot to stage a nationwide protest to shelve their plans and eschew any form of proposed rage, anarchy, and spoliation. In a statement signed by the Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, […]
•TUC President, Festus Osifo The Trade Union Congress (TUC), today, asked the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to ensure that the planned nationwide protest over the current economic hardship in the country is not hijacked by hoodlums. Some persons are mobilising for nationwide protests slated for August 1 to August 10, 202...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu and Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are presently holding a closed door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. It was reliably gathered that the meeting is not unconnected with efforts by the government to stop the planned nationwide protest, reports Daily Trust. Since t...
•National President of NLC, Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress has denied reports that it has withdrawn from the planned nationwide protest against economic hardship scheduled for August 1. The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, said the union cannot withdraw from a protest that it did not organise, reports The PUNCH. This was contained in a [&hel...
•Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume The federal government has scheduled an emergency meeting this morning in response to a planned nationwide protest slated for August 1. This comes after President Bola Tinubu pleaded with the organisers to shelve the protests and give his administration more time to execute people-or...
•Peter Obi and Tinubu The presidency and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi have traded words over a planned ‘EndBadGovernance’ protest. The protest against economic hardship, which is gaining traction on social media, has been scheduled to be held across all states of the Federation as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FC...
•A national protest Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and those of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (SANU) have converged at the Unity Fountain for a national protest. A handful of the protesters are already in the premises of the Unity Fountain, however, security operatives have locked some of...
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