Tag: Protesters
100 protesters freed in Burundi
No fewer than 100 Burundian protesters who opposed President Pierre Nkurunziza during months of violence have been released from prison,…
A word of advice for the critics of pro-Biafra protesters
Onyiorah Paschal Chiduluemije It is a common saying that before you blame the hawk for its wickedness (of preying on the…
Protesters block Lagos Assembly over abnormal electricity tariff
Eromosele Ebhomele Residents of Lagos State, western Nigeria on Monday blocked the two entrances to the State House of Assembly…
Idongesit’s murder: Protesters storm Lagos court to demand justice
Scores of protesters and family members of the mother of four, Idongesit Sunday, who was allegedly felled by a trigger-happy…
Explosion rocks Burundi as defiant protesters continue
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – An explosion shook the centre of the Burundi capital on Friday but no one was injured, a…
Burundi forces begin clearing protester barricades
Bujumbura (Burundi) (AFP) – Burundi’s security forces began clearing barricades in the capital Bujumbura on Sunday after the government ordered…
New York protesters demand $15 minimum wage
Thousands of demonstrators, including many fast-food workers, protested in New York on Wednesday demanding a minimum wage of $15 an…
Cameroon protesters call for death of Boko Haram leader
Several thousand people took to the streets of Cameroon’s capital on Saturday to denounce Boko Haram’s bloody insurgency and call…
Police clash with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters in Karachi
Police fired water cannon and bullets in the air as they clashed with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters outside the French consulate…
Burkina protesters set fire to parliament
Angry demonstrators went on the rampage in Burkina Faso on Thursday, setting parliament ablaze in a surge of violence that…
Hong Kong protesters to hold street vote on next steps
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are set to hold a street poll Sunday on the next steps for a mass movement…
Police arrest 19 in New York fast-food protesters
Police arrested 19 people Thursday in New York’s Times Square during a protest by fast-food restaurant workers demanding better pay…
Protests, looting in US city after police shoot unarmed teen
Protesters clashed with police and looted stores in the Midwestern US suburb of St. Louis, a day after an officer…
Paris police fire tear gas as Gaza protesters defy rally ban
Riot police fired tear gas in Paris on Saturday as tensions rose at a 5,000-strong pro-Palestinian rally that went ahead…
Indian protesters demand arrests in child rape case
Thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday to demand arrests in the case of a six-year-old girl allegedly raped in a school…
Police fire teargas to disperse protesters at Lagos Airport
By Simon Ateba Police fired teargas on Wednesday to disperse protesters at the cargo area of the Murtala Muhammed International…
France steps up security as protesters try to storm synagogues
France stepped up security on Monday after protestors demonstrating against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza tried to storm two Paris synagogues.…
Police arrest 21 in Hong Kong new town protest
Police used pepper spray to scatter protesters at Hong Kong’s government headquarters in an angry rally against plans for a…
Police disperse protesters over closure of Polytechnics, colleges
Nigerian police fired teargas at teachers and students and shot live rounds into the air as they tried to disperse…
Angolan police kills opposition activist, detains 292 protesters
(Reuters) – Angolan security forces shot and killed an opposition activist on Saturday, hours ahead of protests across the country…
French president booed in Paris
A solemn event presided over by French President Francois Hollande to remember those who died in World War I turned…
Sudan marchers want Al Bashir overthrown
About 1,000 people marched in the Sudanese capital calling for the overthrow of the government of President Omar Al Bashir,…
No Power For Houses Under High Tension Wire —PHCN
Management of Power Holding Company (PHCN) in Niger State has warned residents and property owners under high tension wires in…
Cairo’s Al Jazeera office bombed
An office of Arab satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera in the Egyptian capital was firebombed on Wednesday, a security official said, as…
N5000 Note: Protesters Storm CBN
Honourable Dino Melaye, a former member of Federal House of Representatives led scores of protesters to the headquarters of Central…
Church, Classrooms Burnt In Yobe Protest
Crowds of protesters took to the streets of Potiskum, Yobe State Monday over a deadly market attack last week, with…
Protesters Block Ikuforiji’s Convoy Over Lagos Doctors’ Strike
Thousands of Lagosians this morning barricaded the main road leading into the Lagos State House of Assembly blocking the Speaker…
Shell workers ‘blocked’ by protesters
Hundreds of Nigerian protesters blocked waterways in the Niger Delta to prevent Shell workers from reaching oil rigs. One protester…
Northern Riots: 100 Bodies Recovered, Jonathan Orders Probe
At least 100 corpses have been recovered from several cities in northern Nigeria where post election riots erupted on Monday,…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
Four Burnt In Katsina
As law enforcement agents battle to restore sanity in Katsina State which has been engulfed in post-election crisis, four persons…