The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has dismissed reports on the shooting of supporters of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, at its headquarters on...
A human rights group, which identified itself as the “Take It Back Movement”, on Monday, hit the streets of Lagos State to protest against the soaring...
Angry protesters on Friday burnt down the palace of the District Head of Bokkos, in Bokkos local government area of Plateau State, Saf Adanchin, over the...
Amnesty International, on Friday, stated that three years after the #EndSARS demonstration in 2020, fifteen demonstrators from that event were still being arbitrarily detained. The majority...
The ongoing protest by organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), took a different dimension in the Federal Capital Territory...
Some Nigerians, on Wednesday, stormed the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria {CBN} to demand for the resignation and arrest of its governor, Godwin Emefiele, over the...
One person was killed during a clash between security agents and youths protesting the scarcity of the new naira notes on Saturday in Ibadan, Oyo State....
Iran says it has executed a second prisoner connected with the nationwide protests which has been raging in the country since September. The execution which was...
Iran has executed a protester who was found guilty of stabbing a security guard and closing down a thoroughfare in the nation’s capital, Tehran. One of...
After successfully forcing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to resign on Monday following massive nationwide protests, Sri Lankan protesters have turned their attention on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...
Sudan security forces on Tuesday shot dead seven protesters during anti-coup rallies in the capital Khartoum The Sudanese Central Doctors Committee (SCDC) in a statement condemned...
Kazakhstan President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has come under fire after he reportedly ordered security forces to “kill without warning” to crush the violent protests that have paralyzed...
The Prime Minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok was on Tuesday released after a day of intense international pressure following his removal from office in a military...
The city of Abuja on Friday witnessed protest from ‘Buhari Must Go’ groups who voiced their opposition to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. This came...
The Taliban forces in Afghanistan on Saturday broke up a protest staged by women groups in the country’s capital, Kabul. The protest was aimed at calling...
A Sudanese court on Thursday pronounced the death sentence on six officers in the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for the 2019 killing of six students who...
A court sitting in Abuja on Monday mandated the release of five activists including a blind Saxophonist, detained by the Department of State Services (DSS). Ripples...
Protesters, on Monday, blocked the Umaru Yar’Adua Way leading to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The youths protesting under the auspices of #RevolutionNow made bonfires...
The Police Command in Kaduna State has warned residents against further blockade of highways in the state in the name of protest. Mr Umar Muri, the...
Many travellers were rendered stranded at the Abuja-Kaduna highway on Saturday morning, as angry residents of a community blocked the road over incessant attacks by bandits,...
There was drama on Saturday when some protesters who identified themselves as supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari clashed at Unity Fountain, Abuja, over issues relating to...
Against the backdrop of reported repression and heavy-handedness by police operatives on June 12 protesters across the country, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned...
There was drama in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Saturday, June 12, when some participants of the scheduled Democracy Day protest disagreed over the choice...
In order to forestall any breakdown in law and order, police operatives shot teargas as protesters have arrived at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police on Saturday shot teargas canisters at June 12 protesters in Gudu area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The protesters who...
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has taken to his Twitter handle to lambast the minister of information and Culture, Lai Mohammed following...
Some Edo residents marched to Government House, Benin with the body of one of the seven persons killed in Ugboke, Oshodi, Okokodo, Ariyan and Yoruba camp...
The police in Russia have arrested no fewer than 3,000 supporters of jailed Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, and also violently broke up rallies across Russia as...
The streets have been thronged with angry protesters in Belarus demanding the immediate resignation of authoritarian President, Alexander Lukashenko over his moves to stay in power...
French police have arrested no fewer than 100 protesters who were demonstrating against a proposed new security law in the country. Reports on Saturday revealed that...
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) on Monday said his group, the Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 And Beyond (ASCAB), has commenced investigation into last Tuesday shootings of...
Some incredible events dominated the political space last week, and the country won’t forget them in a hurry. They were some of the outcomes of the...
The Ekiti State Government has refuted claims that it sent armed soldiers to disrupt the #EndSARS protests that were held in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on...
Suspected hoodlums on Monday attacked the #EndSARS protesters as they converged on Dan Kogi, area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and set ablaze over 50...
Over 100,000 people have signed a petition asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest and prosecute the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Adamu Mohammed over alleged...
No less than 30 protesters demanding for an end to bad governance in Nigeria have been arrested by the Nigeria Police. The protesters in their hundreds...
A group of protesters on Saturday held a protest outside the United States of America Embassy in Abuja, in a bid to draw attention to what...
Scores of angry protesters stormed the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja on Monday demanding the immediate sack of the entire...
Scores of angry protesters thronged the streets of Bamako in Mali demanding for the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita over alleged corruption and escalating violence...
The political unrest in Guinea has reached unprecedented dimensions after two anti-government protesters were gunned down by security forces on the first day of open-ended protests...
Four protesters arrested on August 5, 2019 during the #RevolutionNow protest have been discharged and acquitted by the Magistrate Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, capital of...
The death of three protesters have been confirmed by authorities in Ethiopia, after demonstrations against Nobel peace laureate and Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed turned violent. Local...
At least two people have been killed and several members of opposition parties arrested in Conakry, Guinea, following a crackdown on anti-government protesters. Reports said authorities...
The streets of Hong Kong have been flooded with scores of protesters rallying against a move by the leader of the semi-autonomous city, Carrie Lam to...
Troubled Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam is set to bypass the city’s legislature in her bid to impose the use of colonial-era emergency laws to ban...
Egyptian authorities have reportedly nabbed no less than 2,000 protesters as demonstrations broke out in several cities last week calling on el-Sisi to resign, human rights...
Violent protests have erupted in several parts of the Asian country of Indonesia over a proposed new criminal code mooted by the government that would ban...
A total number of 500 protesters have been arrested by security operatives in Egypt following an outbreak of rare anti-government protest, human rights activists say. According...
An angry mob of protesters have killed two police officers including Issiaka Tounkara, the Divisional Commissioner of the Niono Police, over alleged links with bandits. The...
The violent handling of protesters in Hong Kong by local police has been condemned by Amnesty International which described the abuse of demonstrators as “reckless and...