•Nurses protest Nurses at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, Ogun State, have reportedly staged a protest and declared immediate strike action after a colleague was allegedly slapped, beaten and strangled by a relative of a deceased patient during a night shift. The incident, which reportedly occurred at the hos...
•The protesters Supporters of the Kwankwasiyya Movement staged a peaceful protest in Kano today, demanding the reinstatement of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) governorship candidate, Comrade Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo. It was earlier reported how Gwarzo’s name was missing from the list released by the Independent National Electoral Commis...
•The protesters Military veterans today blocked the entrance to the Military Pensions Board office in Kubwa, Abuja, over concerns about the formula adopted for adjusting their pensions. The veterans who barricaded the entrance with canopies and chairs as early as 8.00am are protesting over alleged irregularities in the payment of pensions appr...
•Protesting support staff union members of Port Harcourt Refining Company Support Staff Union members of the Port Harcourt Refining Company have protested the delay in the payment of their seven months’ salaries and the non-implementation of a new salary structure recently approved by the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National P...
•The protesting nursing students Hundreds of students of the Taraba State College of Nursing Sciences, Jalingo, today staged a peaceful protest following an overnight attack on one of the female hostels located outside the institution’s premises. The hoodlums allegedly raped a female student during the attack and inflicted injuries on her, inc...
•Governor Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto Sate Tension briefly gripped parts of Sokoto metropolis yesterday as youths protesting the continued remand of an Islamic cleric, Dahiru Mai Barewa, clashed with security personnel. The protesters, who demanded Mai Barewa’s release, reportedly blocked some roads and staged demonstrations in parts of the city bef...
Residents and stakeholders in FESTAC Town, Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos State, under the aegis of Bring Back FESTAC, have threatened to protest at the headquarters of the Federal Housing Authority in Abuja over the alleged demolition of part of a perimeter fence protecting a public reserve housing power infrastructure serving the estate and its environ...
•Armed security personnel Scores of security personnel drawn from the Nigerian military, Nigerian police, Nigeria Immigration Service and Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) and others are currently on alert at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defence, Abuja. The heavy deployment, it was learnt, was done ahead of the planned massive protest b...
The controversy over the concession of King’s College, Lagos, to the King’s College Old Boys’ Association, KCOBA, by the federal government may be far from over, as parents and other stakeholders are mobilising for a mass protest against the move. Speaking with our correspondent, the Chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association, PTA, Mr Peter Ol...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State A cross-section of Ondo State indigenes has faulted the reappointment of Taiwo Fasoranti as Secretary to the State Government after he had resigned to pursue a Senatorial seat. Fasoranti, the son of Afenifere National Leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, had in April resigned his appointment to contest the O...

