•Protesting lecturers Lecturers of the University of Cross River (UNICROSS) today protested the nonpayment of six months of palliative by the management of the institution. The palliative for the state-owned institution which is N10,000 per month was approved for workers in the state by Governor Bassey Otu, reports Vanguard. The lecturers who ...
#EndBadGovernance Movement, a coalition of civil society groups and activists, has declared tomorrow, Sunday, October 20, 2024 as a day to honour the martyrs of the collective struggle for liberty to liberate Nigeria. To this end, the Lagos chapter of the group, in a statement, has announced some activities that will mark the day to […]
•Protesting UNIZIK students The crisis at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State, has escalated, with members of the institution’s Senate calling for the dissolution of the newly appointed governing council. During a Senate meeting yesterday, protests erupted as members held placards with various messages, urging President Bol...
Sacked workers of Mobil Producing Nigeria, Unlimited, MPN-U, in Akwa Ibom State, have embarked on a peaceful protest, lamenting the nonpayment of their 12-year severance benefits. The aggrieved workers under the aegis of “Ex-Mobil Janitorial Service Staff” and Unified Catering Workforce defied the early morning rain and converged at the gate o...
The women wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo State chapter, has said they would continue with their ongoing peaceful protest over an alleged stolen of the party’s mandate unless it is being restored to the party’s flagbearer in the September 21 election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo. Clothed in blacks with placards of various inscriptions [&...
•Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa An advocacy group, the Lagos People’s Assembly, today called on the Lagos State House of Assembly not to take any action capable of undermining local government autonomy. The group, in a peaceful protest to the Lagos Assembly, said that the practice of lawmakers querying and sanctioning Local Government administ...
Supporters of former Rivers State governor, and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, staged a protest today in Port Harcourt, calling on the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, to comply with a recent High Court judgment regarding the ongoing local government elections. The protest, which drew ...
Nurses with Ogun State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta joined by their colleagues mobilised from other parts of the state, defied the rain today to protest the alleged assault of a final year student nurse by a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nurudeen Adekunle. Adekunle, a staff with the hospital reportedly slapped the student nurse at the theatre s...
•Protesting Rivers PDP members Members of the Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party have staged a protest march to the Department of State Security office and the Government House both in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. There is massive presence of security officers as the protesters had initially gathered in large numbe...
•Protesters Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State today staged a protest at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Benin City, the state capital. The party supporters, who wielded placards and PDP insignia, called on the electoral umpire to reverse the results of the September 21, 2024 [...