•Atiku and Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has defended the constitutional right of Nigerian citizens to engage in peaceful protest, amid growing economic challenges and reports of planned demonstrations. In a statement today via X, Atiku emphasised the legal basis for public demonstrations, saying, “For the avoidance of doubt, the...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has appealed to Nigerians to shelve a planned ‘EndBadGovernance’ protest slated for next month. Information Minister Mohammed Idris, who briefed selected State House correspondents after a meeting with the president today, said Tinubu urged the organisers of the protest to shelve the plan and await the president’s...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on President Bola Tinubu to invite the leaders of a planned nationwide protest over hardship in the country, asking him to also address the challenges facing the Nigerian citizens. “As the date for the widely reported national protest looms, the Nigeria Labour Congress urge...
•Utomi and Tinubu Prof. Pat Utomi has threatened to seek redress from international criminal and other human rights courts if Mr. Bayo Onanuga, spokesman of President Bola Tinubu doesn’t offer reasonable explanation to his false comment linking him to the planned nationwide protest which he (Onanuga) claimed is insurrection. Utomi in a press s...
•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...
•Protest Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has appealed to the residents of Borno and Nigerians generally to not participate in the proposed nationwide protests slated for next month. Zulum made the appeal during a stakeholders’ townhall meeting at Government House, Maiduguri, today, reports Daily Trust. He maintained that they should rat...
•Police There’s heavy security at the head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) situated in Awolowo Road, Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The commission had raised the alarm that some groups were planning a series of protests against the EFCC, reports The Nation. Operatives of the Lagos State Anti-Crime Outfit – Rapid [&hel...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alerted the general public on what it described as a plan by a shadowy group to instigate a protest against the Commission. The Commission in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said the group has been actively campaigning on social media, recruiting impressionable young...
•Governor Oyebanji The Ekiti State Government has rejected the proposed plan by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) to put the state in blackout for nine hours daily for the two months effective from July 1. The government said that the planned power outage amounts to unacceptable economi...
•ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke and Education Minister Tahir Mamman The federal government has commenced negotiations with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as part of efforts to avert a proposed strike by the union. Speaking at the end of the meeting which was held behind closed doors at the Federal Ministry [...

