Tag: protest
Breaking: Hungry IDPs protest in Maiduguri, block highway
Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons have left their camps and taken to the streets to protest against hunger and thirst…
Ogonis protest alleged neglect of Ken Saro-Wiwa Poly
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Hundreds of Ogonis under the auspices of Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates as early as 6a.m. Tuesday gathered at…
Patent drug dealers protest shops closure by PCN
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan About 1,000 members of the Nigerian Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED) on Wednesday marched on…
Edo APC Primary: Aspirants protest Oshiomhole’s unrestricted movement
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Several governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) participating in the ongoing governorship primary election have expressed…
Students protest, issue Gov Amosun 48hr ultimatum
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Students of Tai Solarin College of Education, TASCE, Omu Ijebu, on Wednesday gave Governor Ibikunle Amosun 48 hours…
Medicine dealers protest relocation
The National Association of Patent Medicine (NAPM) dealers in Asaba on Friday resisted the directive of the Pharmacists Council of…
#OccupyNASS locks down national assembly
A group of Nigerians under the aegis Occupy NASS have locked down the Nigerian national assembly in protest against what…
Parents protest in Alausa over plan to take over school’s playing field
Kazeem Ugbodaga Hundreds of parents of students from three public schools in Ifako Ijaiye area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria stormed…
UNIPORT: Anger, outrage trail the killing of Peter Ofurum
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Anger and outrage continued to linger after the shooting and killing of late Peter Ofurum, the newly…
UNIPORT students disrupt exams, protest over increased school fees
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Students of the University of Port Harcourt this morning protested against the increase in school fees by…
Ijora residents protest over release of cop who shot 3 at naming ceremony
Cyriacus Izuekwe The residents of Church Street in Ijora Badia have protested over the release of a police Inspector who…
Planning a protest? Save your fuel because I won’t quit, says Kachikwu
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, said on Tuesday in Abuja that he would not resign as he…
Waste collectors protest intimidation by govt officials in Benin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Independent waste collectors in Benin City, Edo state, on Tuesday marched through several streets of the metropolis, to…
Women protesters hold Okowa hostage in Asaba
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba As millions of Nigerian women joined their counterparts across the world to observe International Women’s Day, hundreds…
Women Arise protest at court over murder of housewife
Cyriacus Izuekwe Members of Women Arise, a non governmental organization led by Dr Jeo Okei-Odumakin on Monday protested at the…
#NoBankingDay: Nigerian bank customers protest charges
Hour to the planned boycott of the Nigerian banks on 1 March, the National President, Constance Shareholders Association of Nigeria…
Sagamu residents protest against DPO
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Residents of Sagamu on Monday took to the streets in protest against the alleged criminal extortion by the…
Hawkers protest, as sachet water sells for N20
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Scores of hawkers of sachet water, otherwise known as ‘pure water’ Thursday protested in Benin, following a sudden…
Women protest over levies to buy perfume for Gov Wike
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Some women in their hundreds from Mile Three Market in Port Harcourt, the Rivers Stae capital in…
JAMB dismisses protests over closure of registration
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that protests by some candidates in Lagos and Benin over the…
CSOs protest sack of 13 VCs at Ministry of Education
The Coalition of Civil Society Groups on Wednesday in Abuja staged a protest at the Ministry of Education over the…
Protests by striking doctors “mere blackmail” – Osun Govt
The government of the State of Osun on Tuesday described as ‘mere blackmail’ the protests by striking doctors, saying that,…
Buratai’s convoy not blocked by Christian organisation – Army
The Nigerian Army has denied reports that the convoy of Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai was blocked…
Auchi Poly workers protest unpaid salaries with coffin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Workers at Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, last week protested alleged unpaid two months salary areas with a coffin and…
Police shoot doctor during peaceful protest in Owerri
A member of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Imo State branch, participating in a peaceful demonstration against the concession of…
UTME candidates in South West protest non-availability of centres
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Over 100 students in the South-West who intend to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, that would…
Why we staged protest to support Aregbesola— Osun Professionals
Taiwo Adelu Members of Osun Professionals in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja have said that Governor Rauf Aregbesola deserved…
Doctors, CLO protest in Port Harcourt over kidnappings
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in conjunction with the Civil Liberties Organization…
VIDEO/PICTURES: NUPENG protest N224m owed by LASG
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would not succumb to the attempt by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum…