Protesters under the aegis of Concerned Citizens were at the Igbinedion Education Centre to express their displeasure over the bullying incident that took place in the school. Viral videos from the school showed some students being beaten, flogged and kicked by supposed senior students, reports The PUNCH. The school management, in a statement,...
•Protesters at NASS Protesters today returned to the National Assembly, calling on lawmakers to make real-time electronic transmission of election results compulsory in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2026. The demonstrators, drawn from civil society groups including Situation Room Nigeria and ActionAid Nigeria, insisted that manual collatio...
•Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has condemned Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s deployment of heavily armed security operatives to the Onitsha Main Market, Anambra State. In a press statement today, Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026, signed by Emma Powerful, the spokesperson for IPOB, the group...
•Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali and US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump said today that the United States is “locked and loaded” to respond if Iran kills protesters, after cost-of-living demonstrations in the country turned deadly. Protesters and security forces clashed in several Iranian cities yesterday, with six reported k...
•The protesters A civil society organisation, Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative (EUYI), today staged a peaceful protest at the headquarters of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja, calling for a swift and transparent probe of th...
•Several hundred Cameroonians took to the streets ahead of the Constitutional Council’s announcement of the official results today Police fired teargas to disperse hundreds of people in Cameroon who yesterday defied protest bans to support opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who claims he won the recent presidential elections and who c...
•Dele Farotimi Civil rights activist Dele Farotimi has faulted the Nigerian Police and the judiciary over their roles in restricting citizens from holding peaceful protests, describing the actions as evidence that Nigeria is merely pretending to be a democracy. Speaking on Channels Television today, Farotimi said that in a true democracy, citi...
•Police takeover Lekki Till gate today Unlike previous years, the usually symbolic Lekki Toll Gate Plaza was deserted today as Nigerians marked the fifth anniversary of the shooting of unarmed protesters during the #EndSARS demonstration of October 20, 2020. The plaza, which had in past years drawn scores of young Nigerians for solemn remembra...
•The protesters gather at National Assembly gate with placards A group of Nigerians today staged a protest in Abuja, decrying the spate of insecurity in the South-East region. The protesters gathered at the gate of the National Assembly with placards, reports Channels TV. Some of the placards bore the images of victims of attacks by […]...
A military contingent joined thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Madagascar yesterday, calling on security forces to “refuse orders to shoot” and condemning police action to quell over two weeks of youth-led protests that have rocked the Indian Ocean island. The newly appointed premier last night said the government was “standing str...
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