Tag: protest
Tricycle Operators Protest Ban In Obalende, Ikoyi LCDA
Tricycle Owners and Operators Association of Nigeria, TROAN, Obalende/Ikoyi/Victoria Island Branch has kicked against the order banning from plying some…
Unilag Students Protest Causes Gridlock
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni & Damilare Okunola Protesting students of University of Lagos, Akoka, on Friday morning caused traffic jam in Yaba area…
Lagos PMAN To Hold Peace Concerts For Chibok Girls
The Lagos State chapter of the Performing Musicians’ Association of Nigeria, PMAN, has joined the call for the release of…
8 LASU students docked for breach of peace at Oshodi
Eight students of the Lagos State University (LASU), including three females, were on Wednesday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’…
Ezekwesili, 16 others drag FCT Police to court
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Frontline activists campaigning for the rescue of the over 200 abducted Chibok school girls using the #BringBackOurGirls slogan,…
Chibok Girls: We’ve not banned protests in Nigeria, Police say
Contrary to the directive of Joseph Mbu, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT police commissioner yesterday, the authorities of the Nigeria…
Senator Ojudu Dares Mbu, Stages #BringBackOurGirls Protest
Jamiu Yisa In defiance of the order by the Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, not to stage…
Sharp Band Join #BringBackOurGirls Campaign
Kayode Aponmade As part of its contribution to the call for the release of the abducted Chibok school girls, the…
Nollywood stars join #BringBackOurGirls protest
Nollywood stars led by Patience Ozokwor on Thursday marched from Allen Avenue to Alausa Secretariat soliciting for the release of…
Children’s Day: Chibok Girls Protests Rock Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Massive protests rock Lagos State on Children’s Day in solidarity with the abduction of 234 secondary school girls…
We must not politicise protests – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday admonished protesters of terrorists activities not to policise their protests in the country. Jonathan gave…
UniAbuja students protest over death of colleague
Students of the University of Abuja on Thursday staged a protest, accusing the University’s Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, of negligence which…
Missing Girls: Protest At Nigeria’s Presidency
Protesters on Thursday took their call for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram to Nigeria’s…
Chibok Girls: Public Schools Shut Nationwide
Kazeem Ugbodaga All public primary and secondary schools in Nigeria were Thursday shut down in protest over the 234 secondary…
Brazil Protest’ll Ruin World Cup, Says Pele
Brazilian football legend Pele has expressed concern that social protests in his country could prompt nervous fans from abroad to…
Anti-Boko Haram Protest In Ekiti
Simon Ateba, Nkrumah Bankong-Obi & Gbenro Adesina/Ado-Ekiti BringBackOurGirls protests spread to Nigeria’s southwestern State of Ekiti on Tuesday with hundreds…
27 Days To FIFA World Cup: Protests, Strikes Rock Brazil
Brazil faced a test of its security preparations for the World Cup on Thursday as demonstrators aghast at the cost…
Chibok Girls: Police Stop Street Protest in Kaduna
Femi Adi/Kaduna Kaduna Police Command yesterday disrupted a planned street peaceful protest organised by Women Arise For Change Initiative led…
LASU Fees: 5,000 Students Stage Peaceful Protest
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The Lagos State University Student Union, LASUSU, led by its President, Comrade Nurudeen Temilola Yusuf, will Thursday stage…
Chibok Girls: Hundreds Of Women Protest In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Hundreds of women and men staged a protest in Lagos State, western Nigeria, Monday, demanding the release of…
PHCN pensioners protest in Kwara
Stephen Oni/Ilorin Scores of members of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Electricity Sector, Kwara State chapter, on Monday protested against the…
Aregbesola, wife, others protest Chibok school girls abduction
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, his wife, Serifat, and other members of his cabinet on Thursday 8 May in…
Chibok Schoolgirls: Jonathan’s Wife Orders Protest Leaders Arrested
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja Nigeria Police on Monday allegedly acting on the orders of Mrs. Patience Jonathan, arrested Mrs. Naomi Mutah Nyadar,…
Lagos Shuts Markets For Chibok Schoolgirls
Jamiu Yisa & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo has ordered the shutting down of all Lagos…
Patience Jonathan to lead protest to Chibok
Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of the president, has promised to stage a protest match to Chibok, Borno, if the abducted…
Chibok residents in Lagos seek Fashola’s help on abducted school girls
Some indigenes of Chibok residing in Lagos on Monday 28 April called on Governor Babatunde Fashola to help towards facilitating…
Apapa Expressway Shut As NUPENG Protest Killing of Member
Cyriacus Izuekwe Protest broke out this morning at Apapa Warf area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria after a member of the…
Attempted Murder: Accused 9-Month Old Baby Goes Into Hiding
A nine month old baby arrested along with his father, grandfather by the police in Pakistan for attempted murder has…
Lawyers Boycott Courts Over Quarrel With Police
The Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Katsina State branch, Mr. Murtala Kassim, said on Tuesday that members of the branch…
ASUP, COEASU Strike: Students Take To Gani’s Park
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni Hundreds of university, polytechnic and College of Education students Monday, continued their protest against the ongoing strike by…