Tag: protest
Lawmakers, activists march on Fashola over NASS, Ekiti crises
Eromosele Ebhomele A coalition including members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, the 19 embattled members of the Ekiti…
Protest Rocks Lagos INEC Office Over Shoddy PVC Distribution
Kazeem Ugbodaga & Eromosele Ebhomele Protesters stormed the Lagos office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday to…
HIV/AIDS Patients Shut NACA In Protest
Hundreds of HIV/AIDS positive patients besieged the Abuja office of the National Agency for Control of Aids, NACA, on Monday…
Zimbabweans plan demonstration against Mugabe regime
Zimbabwe’s opposition party Saturday announced a plan for “peaceful and constitutional demonstrations” to press long-ruling President Robert Mugabe to accept…
Burkina President Compaore says not resigning, open to talks
Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore said in a televised speech Thursday that he was not resigning and was open to…
Protesting Workers Shut Edo Govt House Over Unpaid Salaries
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Activities at the Edo State Government House were put on hold on Wednesday by protesting workers of the…
AOCOED staff shut Fashola’s office over unpaid pension fund
Kazeem Ugbodaga Staff of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, AOCOED, Ijanikin, Lagos stormed the office of the Lagos State…
Protesting workers shut down hospital in Benin
Hundreds of patients, mostly pregnant women and mothers who turned up at the Specialist Hospital in Benin for medical treatment…
Hundreds of JAMB students protest in Port Harcourt
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Hundreds of prospective Joint Admission And Matriculation Board (JAMB) candidates from far-flung coastal areas of the Rivers…
Protest In Benin, As EFCC Detains Edo Speaker, Majority Leader, Chief Whip
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Hundreds of All Progressives Congress (APC) members and sympathisers, this morning protested round the streets of Benin to…
Chiefs, elders, shutdown multi-national Total/E&P
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Angry Chiefs, youths and women of Umu-Ebe in Ama community of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area in Rivers…
#BringBackOurGirls protesters mark six months of Chibok girls’ kidnap
Protesters calling for the release of 219 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants were set Tuesday to mark the…
In Picture: TB Joshua supporters protest in court Monday
Henry Ojelu Supporters of Prophet TB Joshua, General Overseer, Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, staged a peaceful protest today…
YABATECH Students Protest Over Exams
Damilare Okunola Students of Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Yaba, Lagos, Friday morning, staged a peaceful protest to demand the…
Parents protest in China after school stampede kills 6
Chinese parents staged a protest on Sunday after six pupils were killed in a stampede at a primary school, as…
Protesting part time LASU students shut Fashola’s office
Kazeem Ugbodaga Hundreds of part-time students of the Lagos State University, LASU, on Monday protested vehemently at the office of…
No life lost in Offa Poly Students’ protest – Police
The Kwara Police Command on Friday denied that there were casualties during a protest by students of the Federal Polytechnic…
Ebola: NFF Protests Gabonese authorities treatment on Eaglets
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has sent a strong letter of protest to the Confederation of African Football, CAF, over Friday’s…
Army pensioners protest non-payment of arrears in Abuja
Many retired military personnel from different parts of the country protested in Abuja on Wednesday against the non-payment and non-harmonisation…
Delta retirees protest N16.9bn unpaid pension
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Hundreds of retired public servants under the aegis of Association of Contributory Retirees on Tuesday protested the non-payment…
Chinese president’s Pakistan visit postponed due to protests
Pakistan’s foreign ministry Saturday said Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit scheduled for this month had been postponed due to…
Namibia rocked as protestor shot dead in rare political unrest
A young woman was shot dead in Namibia on Wednesday in clashes between police and the children of fallen independence…
Traders Protest In Abuja Over Multiple Tax
Hundreds of traders in Abuja on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against imposition of multiple taxes on them by Abuja…
OAU Students Blame Union Leaders For ‘Needless’ Strike
Akintola Lukman Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun state, have blamed their Students’ Union leaders for embarking on…
Liberia’s Ebola clampdown turns violent as official evacuated
Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia’s capital Wednesday when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on…
Liberian Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Ebola Protesters
Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd agitating to leave a…
LUTH resident doctors protest over suspension
The Association of Resident Doctors, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH-ARD) Chapter, Idi-Araba, on Monday protested the suspension of residency training…
One shot, 7 arrested as violence flares in US
One person was shot and seven people were arrested as police battled to impose a curfew in the riot-hit US…