Tag: protest
Thousands Of APC Supporters, 23 LG Bosses Protest Against Police
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Less 24 hours after the Rivers State Police Commissioner, Dan Bature, accused Governor Chibuike Amaechi of attacking…
LASU Crisis: VC Must Go, Workers Insist
Kazeem Ugbodaga The crisis engulfing Lagos State University, LASU, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, seems to know no end as lecturers and…
Jonathan’s Terrorism Against Lagosians
By Sanya Osijo Millions of the people of Lagos and visitors to the state were rudely awakened on Monday, March…
Sponsored Protests Against Jega
The allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration is sponsoring ethnic militias to foment…
Ex-militants on rampage over FG pipeline surveillance contract
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Hundreds of ex-militants from Bayelsa state today staged a violent protest by blocking the Mbiama /Yenagoa road…
IMOPOLY Students Protest N20k Acceptance Fee
Harrison Iyoha Imo State Polytechnic, Imo State is in crisis as the students and the school Rector, Rev. Fr. Wence…
Thugs Hold VP Sambo Hostage Over Debt For “Services”
Some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs in Kano state on Monday held Vice-President Namadi Sambo hostage for almost 30 minutes…
Ebonyi Women Protest Against Impeachment Notice On Gov Elechi
Jethro Ibileke/Abakaliki Thousands of women of Ebonyi state on Wednesday marched through streets of Abakaliki, capital of the state to…
Ebonyi Paralysed As Youths Protest Plot To Impeach Gov
As plans to impeach Governor Martins Elechi of Ebonyi State continue, commercial activities were on Monday paralysed in Abakaliki, the state capital…
Women Protest Against Landgrabbers In Ikorodu
Damilare Okunola Some female indigenes of Ilu Oloye in Ogun State in their 60s have stripped in protest over the…
Tens of thousands march for slain Russian opposition leader Nemtsov
Tens of thousands of people marched in central Moscow on Sunday to honour the memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov,…
Protest In Ogun Over PVCs
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Members of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, Ogun State chapter on Monday staged a…
UNIJOS Students Kick Against New Levy
Harrison Iyoha The announcement by the management of the University of Jos, UNIJOS, that students should resume immediately for the…
Thousands march against Boko Haram in Niger
Thousands of people marched in Niger’s capital on Tuesday to protest at Boko Haram Islamists who have launched deadly raids…
Polls Shift: NANS Protest, Vows To Hold Mock Election 14 Feb
Damilare Okunola The Lagos State Chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has declared its displeasure over the…
Sponsored protest next plan to stop elections, says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the reported plan by the advocates of the postponement of next month’s…
Lagos, Outdoor Advertisers Protest Ban Of Adverts On Federal Road
Kazeem Ugbodaga Thousands of outdoor advertising practitioners and officials of the Lagos State Government have protested the ban on billboard…
ASUU Dissociates Self From Protest
Kazeem Ugbodaga A faction of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Lagos State University (LASU) Chapter has dissociated itself…
Abuja business groups protest high electricity cost
Business groups in Abuja on Friday protested the hike in electricity tariff by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company. The groups,…
Kinshasa authorities restore Internet, block mobile phones
Authorities restored Internet access in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, but kept mobile phones blocked…
Lagos, A Different Turf For Mbu
The anger that trailed the redeployment of Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mbu, from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to Lagos,…
UNN suspends postgraduate programmes
The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) on Sunday announced the indefinite suspension of its postgraduate programmes. The Public Relations Officer…
Attacks on APC: Rivers Chief of Staff leads protest, says police aiding PDP
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt After the bombing of its secretariat in Okrika and physical attacks on its supporters, hundreds of All…
Group Protests Replacement Of Candidate’s Name On INEC’s List
Jamiu Yisa Concerned citizens of Amuwo Odofin Constituency 02 and Ward Exco members, Oriade Local Council Development Area, Lagos, southwest…
NLC directs workers to shun salary, protest sack of 6,000 workers
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kogi chapter, has directed civil servants in the state to reject their December salaries to…
The Disquiet In Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
Harrison Iyoha Across the country students of various institutions of higher learning are having one reason or the other to…
Police arrest 15 in fresh Ferguson protests
Police arrested 15 people in the protest-hit St Louis suburb of Ferguson on Friday in more demonstrations demanding justice for…
Angry protests in Haiti over election delays
Thousands of angry protesters hit the streets of Haiti on Friday to demand the resignation of President Michel Martelly, in…
Security agents shoot 11 UniJos students, school shutdown
Security agents in Plateau state on Tuesday shot at protesting students of the University of Jos, injuring 11 protesters. The…
Mexico president forced to act over 43 missing students, corruption
Two months after 43 students vanished in the night, change is afoot in Mexico: protests have swept the nation, sounding…