L Mobile policemen deployed at the Admiralty Lekki Phase 1 Toll Gate in Lagos State have restored normalcy to the area following attempted eruption of violent protest. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent monitoring the protest at the toll gate on Thursday, reports that some protesters had...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development recently organized a one-day community dialogue on understanding, tolerance, and peaceful co-existence in Jere LGA of Borno State. The event aimed to harness the concerns, hopes, and aspirations of stakeholders to achieve lasting peace and societal development....
Hundreds of youth have barricaded major streets and Government House in Sokoto metropolis chanting different songs in the ongoing nationwide protest against hunger. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesters, holding placards with different inscriptions, chanting different songs are calling on government to re-introduce fuel...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Security agents in Nasarawa State, have dispersed protesters who are mostly youths, who trooped out in their number as part of the ongoing nation wide protest. The protesters, who were seen matching on the streets of Lafia, were also marched towards the government...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – A group known as the Initiative For Better And Brighter Nigeria (IBBN) took to the streets of Plateau State on Thursday to participate in nationwide protests addressing hunger and hardship, despite the state government’s opposition to the demonstration. Led by Convener Prophet Isa El...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Youths in the state, particularly that of Alago extraction, has been advised to avoid the good governance protest for the good of the state and the country at large. Youth leader of Alago Development Association (ADA), Comrade Akwe Julius James, made the call...
Some protesters of the #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria’ have blocked the Keffi-Abuja highway, preventing motorists from Keffi metropolis from entering. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protests will run from Aug. 1 to 10, to demand an end to bad governance, hunger and high cost of living in the...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said that most of the things Nigerian youths are saying which are prompting them to go on the nationwide protests are true. The Governor who admitted that there is hunger and anger in the land, however, appealed...
The police in Borno on Thursday said nine people were killed while 20 others were injured when Boko Haram detonated an Improvised Explosive Device(IED), in Kawuri in Konduga Local Government Area. The Commissioner Police, Yusuf Lawan who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)...
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Olukayode Egbetokun says intelligence available to the Nigeria Police revealed that the Aug. 1 planned protest is targeted at unleashing mayhem in the country. This is contained in statement personally signed by Egbetokun on Thursday in Abuja. He said the mayhem was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In Maiduguri, youths and children from the Bulumkutu area joined the nationwide peaceful protests, but were blocked by security agents from the Nigeria Police Force, NSCDC, and Vigilante Groups of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF). The security agents were stationed at strategic locations...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Yobe State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew in Potiskum, Gashua, and Nguru towns, effective immediately, due to the deteriorating security situation in these areas. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security Matters, Brig. General Dahiru Abdussallam (Retired), disclosed this in a statement...
The U.S. Embassy in Abuja has issued a security alert to its citizens over the impending nationwide protests scheduled to be held from Aug. 1 to 10 as organised by some groups in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement by the embassy and made available to...
The Police in Zaria Kaduna State have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who blocked the Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Expressway. The protesters had earlier blocked the Gwargwaje junction, a section of Kaduna -Zaria- Kano expressway, thereby causing a gridlock of trucks travelling to Kano. Policemen who tried to...
Some youths suspected to be part of the protest has set ablaze the multi-million naira Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) office complex in Kano. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the large number of youths who were armed with dangerous weapons, also took over major roads in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state, effective immediately, following a deadly explosion that occurred in the Kawori area of the state. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the explosion, which was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED), resulted in...
The Police and other security agents, including newsmen, were present at Gani Fawehinmi Park early morning on Thursday, waiting for the Protesters endlessly. A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who was at the venue at about 7.30 a.m., reports that the police, Civil Defence, Lagos...
A Federal Capital Territory ( FCT), high court has restricted participants in the August 1st #EndBadGovernance protest to the MKO Abiola stadium, also known as National Stadium. Justice Sylvanus Oriji issued the order on Wednesday in Abuja while ruling in an ex-parte application brought before him by the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Former President Goodluck Jonathan has mourned the sudden death of the music legend, Ms Onyeka Onwenu, describing her as a true Nigerian icon who promoted good values. Jonathan, in a condolence message by his Media Adviser, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, said that the country had...