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October 4, 2024 No Responses

Nurses Protest Doctor’s Alleged Assault Of Female Student Nurse In Ogun

Nurses with Ogun State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta joined by their colleagues mobilised from other parts of the state, defied the rain on Thursday to protest the alleged assault of a final year student nurse by a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nurudeen...

October 3, 2024 No Responses

Edo 2024: PDP Supporters Protest At INEC Office

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State staged a protest on Wednesday 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,...

August 4, 2024 No Responses

Full Text Of Tinubu’s Address To Nigerians

BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY BOLA AHMED TINUBU, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE NATIONWIDE PROTESTDATE: SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST 2024My fellow Nigerians,1. I speak to you today with a heavy heart and...

August 4, 2024 No Responses

Kano Govt Relaxes Curfew

The Kano State Government has relaxed the curfew imposed on the state following the violence that trailed the #EndBadGovernance protests. In an audio message released on Saturday, the state Commissioner for Information, Baba Dantiye, explained that the curfew ...

August 3, 2024 No Responses

Sultan, CAN Seek End To Protests

The Sultan of Sokoto and President of Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’adu Abubakar III, and the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Archbishop Daniel Okoh, have asked the #EndBadGovernance proteste...

August 2, 2024 No Responses

Shareholders Lose N235bAmidst Nationwide Protest

The Nigerian stock market on Thursday, August 1, 2024, lost N235 billion in value amid cautious investor sentiment triggered by ongoing nationwide protest. At the end of the day’s transactions, the market capitalisation reduced to N55.278 trillion from an op...

August 1, 2024 No Responses

Protests: IGP Warns Against Violence

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has directed his men across the country to “deal decisively” with arsonists and troublemakers as youths stage #EndBadGovernance protests against hunger and economic hardship across the Federation sta...

February 27, 2024 No Responses

Labour Insists On Nationwide Protest

The meeting between the Federal Government and Organised Labour on Monday at the State House in Abuja ended in a stalemate. Speaking after the meeting on Monday night, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, said:“The rally goes...

June 6, 2023 No Responses

NLC, TUC Suspend Planned Strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended the planned strike scheduled to commence on Wednesday, May 7, 2023 over the removal of petrol subsidy. The organised labour announced the suspension of the proposed nationwid...

October 9, 2022 No Responses

NIMASA To Engage Cadets Protesting In Philippines

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)is to engage the National Seafarers Development Program (NSDP) 2013 cadets protesting at Nigerian embassy in the Philippines. In a statement issued on Saturday, NIMASA said: “We wish...

July 26, 2022 No Responses

NLC Protest: LASG Urges Motorists To Remain Calm, Receives Letter From Protesters

The Lagos State Government has urged motorists to remain calm despite the protest rally of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Ikeja and its environs. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde made this known in a statement issued in...

June 28, 2022 No Responses

Railway Fencing: Contractors Protest Over Non-Payment Of N500m Debt

The Abuja-Kaduna Railway Fencing Sub-Contractors Association on Monday, in Abuja protested over the non-payment of N500 million debt owed them by Deux Projects Limited since 2018.The association’s spokesman, Mr Onyeka Enechuku, said the angry contractors wer...

May 10, 2022 No Responses

Cocoa Farmers In Ondo Protest Alleged Sale Of Farmland To Chinese Company

Cocoa farmers in Ofosu in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State on Monday protested against alleged sale of their farmland to a Chinese company by the state government. The protesters barricaded the Lagos/Benin Expressway, carrying placards with dif...

March 25, 2022 No Responses

SEC Staff Protest Over Outstanding Promotions, Appointments

Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on Thursday, staged a peaceful protest at the Commission’s headquarters over alleged stagnated promotions and directorate cadre appointments. The aggrieved staff said they decided to stage the prot...