•Protesters Nigerians have poured into the streets in major cities across the nation to protest against economic hardship despite the government’s last-minute push to prevent the demonstration. Inflation has reached 34 per cent owing majorly to the twin policies of subsidy removal and floating of the naira. That has pushed the cost of basic it...
•Akpodoro The Mayor of Urhoboland, who is one of the major critics of the protest, Eshanekpe Israel a.k.a Akpodoro, has called on President Bola Tinubu, to address Nigerians to end the national protest themed: #endbadgovernance, otherwise known as hunger protest, in the country. A national broadcast by the President, Akpodoro argued, will dous...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, says a policeman was murdered while on duty during the #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests yesterday. At a briefing in Abuja, the police boss said some of his men were also injured by hoodlums who disguised as protesters. Egbetokun said some police stations in the...
•FCT Minister Nyesom Wike Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike this evening summoned an emergency security meeting, apparently to review activities of the #EndBadGovernance protesters on the first day of the nationwide protests. Wike had earlier in the day commended the protesters for being nonviolent, reports Vanguard. H...
Seven mass transit buses were burnt in Potiskum, the headquarters of Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State amid the #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests. The buses were set ablaze on the premises of the local government secretariat in Potiskum today, reports Channels TV. An eyewitness told our correspondent in the North-East state that...
Justice Emmanuel Ogundare of a Lagos High Court has restricted protesters in Lagos taking part in the proposed August 1 nationwide protest, to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota and Peace Park, Ketu area of the state. The judge gave the restriction order today 😀 following a preemptive exparte application filed the state Attorney-General ...
•Tinubu There is apprehension in Nigeria as the final countÂdown to the August protests begins. The protest is being organised to drive home the peoples feeling about the growing inability of the majority of Nigerians to cope with the high cost of living and closing access to public utilities, reports Sunday Independent. The federal government...
•Protest The United Action Front of Civil Society has declared full support for the planned hunger protests scheduled to hold nationwide from August 1 to August 10. The society made the declaration today in a statement made available to The Frontier. Signed by its Head, Coordinating Secretariat, United Action Front of Civil Society, Comrade Ol...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has weighed in on the planned nationwide protests, saying that sponsors of the demonstrations do not love the country. The president stated this yesterday at the Presidential Villa while receiving a delegation of Islamic leaders led by Sheikh Bala Lau, reports Channels TV. Though he did not identify any sponsor, h...
The Department of State Services (DSS) is asking persons and groups yet to identify themselves in the public as leaders of the plot to stage a nationwide protest to shelve their plans and eschew any form of proposed rage, anarchy, and spoliation. In a statement signed by the Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, […]
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