By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS), has call on the organised labour to embrace dialogue and negotiation against its planned protest slated for Feb. 27 and Feb. 28. The Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, made the...
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President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Abuja from the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tinubu, who departed Addis Ababa in the morning on Monday, arrived in Abuja around 3:40 pm. While in Ethiopia, the Nigerian leader actively participated in the 44th Ordinary Session of the...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has raised an alarm that rising prices of fuel and other commodities could lead to social unrest in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Angola and Kenya. The AfDB sounded the warning in its macroeconomic performance and outlook for 2024 in which it projected Africa’s economy to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it will embark on a two-day nationwide protest from Feb. 27 to Feb. 28, over the worsening economic hardship and insecurity in the country. President of NLC, Mr Joe Ajaero, said this at a news conference at the end of its...
Residents of Abigborodo and Obagboro Communities in the Warri North Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta on Friday held a peaceful protest over the ownership of the Kuri Oil Field. They consequently called on both the state and federal governments to intervene before the situation escalates into a...
Nurses in Ibadan on Thursday staged a protest against a new policy requiring verification of nursing certificates issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN). The nurses, who carried placards with inscriptions such as nurses are not slaves, nurses deserve the best, say no to new...
Hundreds of Kano residents on Thursday took to the streets in peaceful protest against high cost of food items and other essential commodities in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that they staged the protest around Kurna, Rijiyar Lemu, Bachirawa areas along the popular Katsina...
Tipper drivers in Onitsha, the commercial centre of Anambra, on Tuesday protested and blocked the expressway leading to and from Niger Bridge, over alleged extortion by agents of the state government. All efforts made by the military personnel stationed at the scene of the incident to dismantle...
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, has berated the police for inhuman treatment of lawyers and the general public. Falana, a human rights activist, made the remark on Thursday in Lagos when hundreds of lawyers trooped out to protest against the alleged brutality of the...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Chairman of Andoni Local Government Council in Rivers State, Erastus Awortu, has alerted security agencies to an alleged planned politically-sponsored protest in the area. Mr. Awortu stated this in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday. He called...
The Bayelsa government has said it will not allow a protest planned for Dec. 26 to disrupt oil production at Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29, operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration. The Bayelsa government in a statement on Sunday by the Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Chief Ayiba...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is holding presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday after a chaotic campaign marred by opposition allegations of fraud, electoral violence, and logistical setbacks that could prevent many from voting. At stake is not just the legitimacy of the next administration. Congolese election disputes...
Protesters on Thursday blocked the entrance to NNPC depot in Lagos State, preventing the factional Chairman of Lagos Zone of Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of NUPENG, Saheed Gbolahan Adigun and his entourage from gaining access to the facility. The protesters, who were said to be loyal to...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A Bauchi based Civil Society Organization, Young Leaders Network, has condemned the description of the management of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) of its students, who came out to protest the killing of their schoolmate as “miscreants.” Recall that a final...
By ARMSTRONG ALAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, has condemned the killing of a 500 level student of the institution by assailants while trying to steal his phone. Recall that the final year Geology student, Joseph Agabaidu, who...
The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi has been shut down following students’ protest. The Director, Directorate of Information and Public Relations, , Mr Zailani Bappa, who announced this on Monday at a news conference in Bauchi, said the school would be closed for one week. According to...
Academic activities were on Monday grounded at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), following the students’ protest against the 100 per cent hike in the institution’s tuition fees. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the university had released a new schedule of fees that would take...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – It was a sad day on Saturday for Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, as one of its students, Joseph Obiaje Agabaidu, a 500-level Geology student was stabbed to death by robbers, who tried to steal his phone. The final year student hails...
A group of Russian women harshly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin for concealing information about the front line of the war in Ukraine in order to secure his re-election next year and called on him to bring their husbands home. A letter posted on the Telegram channel run...
Supporters of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have continued to protest the Appeal Court’s judgment that sacked Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State. But this time, it was the women supporters of the party who took their agitation to the police headquarters in Kano to...