•Protest in northern Nigeria Desperate Nigerians have been protesting against soaring food prices as an economic crisis forces people to skip meals and eat poor-grade rice used as fish food. To feed their children, women in northern Nigeria have even resorted to digging up anthills in search of grain stored by the insects, according to [&helli...
Members of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has given the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) 14 days to reverse its ban on sachet alcohol. The association, an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), issued the threat during a protest at the NAFDAC headquarters in [&helli...
The federal government said yesterday it was considering importation of food as a critical option on the table to halt the high cost of items in the country in order to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians. In the interim, the government has ordered the immediate release of 102,000 metric tonnes of rice and maize from […]
•Protest in Niger The ruling All Progressives Congress yesterday accused the leading opposition parties in the country of orchestrating the demonstrations that took place simultaneously in Kano and Niger states on Monday. But the Peoples Democratic Party denied the allegation, saying the protests were merely a reflection of the hardship in the...
•PDP flags The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, to let Nigerians breath by allowing them to freely protest unjust policies. The party also condemned what it described as vicious attempts by the Tinubu presidency and the APC, to politicize the protest by Nigerians agai...
•Tinubu The Labour Party has advised President Bola Tinubu and his ruling All Progressives Congres, APC, to deal with the fallout of its failed policies instead of looking for scapegoats to blame for its ineptitudes. National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Obiora Ifoh said this in an interview our correspondent today. He spoke in response [...
•Mass protest in Minna yesterday The All Progressives Congress (APC) today accused opposition parties of instigating mass protests across some major cities in the country to undermine the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Yesterday, protesters including women and youths blocked major roads in Minna, the Niger State capital to register t...
Two Lagos-based human rights activists – Dabiraoluwa Oni-Ayoku and Ifeanyi Okoye – have blamed the government of Muhammadu Buhari for the violence that trailed the 2020 #EndSARS protests in some parts of the country. They argued that if the then government had not deployed security operatives, including soldiers in the streets, the protesters ...
Agents of the Labour Party at Ikenegbu areas of Owerri Municipal Council in Imo State Girls Polling Unit in the Owerri municipal council protested the alleged swapping of Polling Unit officers already trained on how to make use of the BVAS on Election Day. This development caused an uproar as the party said it was […]
•The protesters at Abuja airport Many top government officials, their armed escorts, business guests and hundreds of other Nigerians have been prevented from entering the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. As of 9.15 am when our correspondent approached the vicinity of the Airport, scores of vehicles carrying stranded air passengers r...

