Aviation workers’ unions on Thursday announced plans to stage a peaceful protest on September 18, 2024. The General Secretary of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Ocheme Aba, and the Deputy General Secretary of the Air Transport Services Senior…
Protest in Abuja over fuel scarcity
Several demonstrators hit the streets of Abuja to demand the immediate dismissal of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Limited, Mele Kyari, over the lingering fuel scarcity. The protest came out on the heels of…
Protesters seal NLNG office in Rivers over fisherman’s death
Protesting residents of Ogu/Bolo in Rivers State have sealed the premises of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas along Amadi-Ama in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following the death of a fisherman on the waterways. The protesters, under the aegis of Concerned…
Suspect in Rivers hotel explosion was on wanted list – police
The suspect behind the June 25 dynamite explosion at the Rivers State-owned Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt was on the police “Wanted List” before the incident. A dynamite explosion happened on June 25 near Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt during…
Ekiti lawmaker urges youths to give Tinubu more time
Rep Kolawole Akinlayo (APC-Ekiti) has urged youths in the country to give President Bola Tinubu more time to address their concerns. The lawmaker who made the appeal while addressing newsmen on Monday in Abuja, said that bad governance did not…
Hunger: Accept Tinubu’s olive branch – Ex-Imo deputy governor begs protesters
The Ex-Deputy Governor of Imo state, Prince Eze Madumere, on Monday pleaded with the promoters of the “end bad governance” protests to accept the olive branch offer to them by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu. He spoke to newsmen in Owerri,…
Text of Tinubu’s August 4 address on nationwide protest
My fellow Nigerians, 1. I speak to you today with a heavy heart and a sense of responsibility, aware of the turmoil and violent protests unleashed in some of our states. 2. Notably among the protesters were young…
#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria: Journalist, protesters arrested in Abuja
A freelance journalist, Ayoola Babalola, was arrested alongside an unconfirmed number of protesters by security operatives in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Saturday. The development is coming as protesters seeking an “End to Bad Governance” and economic hardship in…
Protest: Police arrest 64 hoodlums with 693 bags of fertiliser in Katsina
The Katsina State Police Command has disclosed that 64 hoodlums were arrested with 693 bags of fertiliser they stole from a warehouse in Dutsinma LGA of the state on the first day of the nationwide protest. The nationwide protest turned…
Protest: Accept FG’s olive branch, Ekiti Rep urges Nigerians
The lawmaker representing Ekiti North II in the House of Representatives, Akinlayo Davidson Kolawole, has called on Nigerians, especially youths, to accept the measures and palliatives of the Federal Government in its effort to persuade them to halt the ongoing…
