Sri Lanka’s Department of Government Information on Thursday said that a curfew has been declared in the Colombo district from noon on Thursday till 5.00 a.m. on Friday. This followed clashes between protesters and security forces a day earlier. Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday declared a...
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Political tensions remained high in Sri Lanka on Thursday as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa failed to submit his promised resignation letter to the speaker of parliament. Speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced that he had still not received a letter of resignation from Rajapaksa on Thursday, in spite having received assurances...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been appointed as the acting president of the country, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana announced on Wednesday. Abeywardena in a statement broadcast over television said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who left the country earlier in the day, had given the authority for Wickremesinghe to...
Sri Lanka’s embattled president flew out of his country early Wednesday, in a probable prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests over the island nation’s worst-ever economic crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday and clear the way for a “peaceful transition...
The President Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled his official residence. On Saturday, thousands of protesters stormed the home as they continued their demand for his resignation. The President was hurriedly transported to the Army headquarters hours before the invasion. Sri Lankan military personnel joined the demonstrators who broke police barricades...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), says it will embark on a one-day nationwide protest to compel the Federal Government find immediate resolutions to contending issues with education sector unions. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba said this during the opening of the Congress’ Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting on...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC), Ekiti chapter, has advised Gov Kayode Fayemi to pay workers backlog of arrears as promised during his electioneering campaign in 2018 before the expiration of his tenure on Oct. 15, 2022. The labour union said redeeming such pledge would further reinforce workers’ trust in...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A coalition of youth groups in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has berated 11 northern governors over their decision that the presidency should come from the south in 2023. The groups who staged a peaceful protest on Sunday in Bauchi, under the umbrella...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D, on Monday threatened to shutdown major airports if the face-off between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government continued. NANS South West Zone Coordinator, Mr Adegboye Olatunji, made this known in Abuja on Monday, at a...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Friday lifted a curfew imposed on Sokoto metropolis over the unrest that followed the killing of Deborah Samuel. The Governor also banned all forms of procession in the state indefinitely. Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, was lynched by a...
A leading Sudanese politician has been arrested as protests raged in the capital Khartoum for the seventh month against military rule. The military deployed tear gas and heavy security force to quell the protests. A military coup in October effectively ended a 2019 power-sharing deal between generals, who overthrew...
A video has captured the moment some secondary school students destroyed their school property after the principal disappeared on the day WAEC exams commenced. The Senior Secondary (SS3) students arrived at the school premises to discover that the head of the school has put it up for sale and...
There was pandemonium on Wednesday morning as gunshots were fired at the All Progressives Congress secretariat along Woji Road, GRA, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during screening. Hundreds of the APC members loyal to a former federal lawmaker, Senator Magnus Abe, thronged the premises, alleging hijack of state assembly aspirants...
Details have emerged regarding the post made by a Facebook user, Naomi Goni, that angered Muslim faithful in Borno State. Naomi is currently in trouble after her Facebook post on the murder of Deborah Samuel, a Christian student who was killed for blasphemy in Sokoto. A lady with Facebook...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has been told to arrest the Chief Imam of Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Sheikh Abubakar Jibril, for inciting Muslims against the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah. The call was made by the Human Rights Writers Association...
Students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, on Monday barricaded the Akure-Ilesa Highway, protesting the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The action of the students forced many motorists and travellers to be stranded. The protesters blocked the highway at the...
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Father Matthew Kukah, has denied the reports that an angry mob burnt down his Sokoto residence on Saturday. There has been tension in the state since the killing of Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, over alleged...
Some residents of Sokoto State will on Saturday embark on a “mass” protest against the arrest of two people suspected to be involved in the killing of a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, identified as Deborah Samuel, for alleged blasphemy. It would be recalled that Deborah...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has directed all its structures and organs to block all federal roads in protest against the continued shutdown of public universities in the country. Against the backdrop of the extension of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),...
Students from the University of Benin, the Edo State capital on Wednesday defied the early morning rain to embark on a protest against the continued strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The students, who took their protest to the King Square area of the...