The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed disappointment over the latest hike in fuel prices. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has increased the price...
Femi Falana, a prominent human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has criticized the rising use of treason charges against protesters in Nigeria. Falana, who...
The Federal Government has filed a six-count charge against organizers of the recent hunger protest at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The organisers were accused of...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has written to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) seeking their assistance in securing the release of over 1,000 protesters detained...
A Kano State Mobile Court, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of 632 individuals accused of vandalizing public and government property during the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest. The defendants...
Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa declared on Monday that the Nigerian military will not tolerate any attempts to instigate a change of government. Musa...
The Russian Embassy in Nigeria stated on Monday that its officials are not involved with or coordinating the activities of individuals waving Russian flags during the...
The Nigerian military announced on Monday that individuals displaying Russian flags during the ongoing nationwide protests are committing treason and will be “prosecuted.” Chief of Defence...
On Sunday, hundreds of demonstrators continued their protest in Kano, marking the fourth day of the nationwide demonstration against hunger and poor governance. The protest occurred...
Femi Falana, a leading Nigerian lawyer and human rights advocate, has harshly criticized the government’s handling of the nationwide protests against economic hardships and poor governance....
Former Minister of Education,Oby Ezekwesili, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s speech for being terribly underwhelming and failing to address the concerns of Nigerians in the ongoing...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to “apply the...
#EndBadGovernance demonstrators have again taken to the streets in Lagos and Port Harcourt, on Saturday, to press on with their demands. This is despite appeals from...
One person was killed and 11 others sustained serious injuries in a bomb explosion in Borno State on Friday. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Yusuf Lawal,...
The Lagos State Police Command has released all the #EndBadGovernance protesters arrested in the state on Thursday. The command’s spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this to journalists...
Police operatives in Sokoto have detained 81 individuals posing as protesters in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Ahmad Rufai, disclosed this in...
Amnesty International stated on Friday that 13 protesters were allegedly killed by security forces across Nigeria, on the first day of the #EndBadGovernance protests across the...
On Thursday, tensions flared in Daura, Katsina State, as a large group of angry protesters gathered at the residence of former President Muhammadu Buhari. The demonstrators,...
Police operatives in Niger have arrested 11 violent protesters for allegedly attempting to set ablaze Tafa local government secretariat during the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest in the...
A wave of anger swept through Government House, Port Harcourt, on Thursday after state Governor Siminalayi Fubara promised a monetary gift to protesting youths. Addressing the...
Protesters have declared that they will sustain their #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests until President Bola Tinubu meets their demands. They urged the president to take necessary actions to...
The Federal Government has appealed to promoters of the #EndBadGovernance protesters to shelve the planned nationwide rallies scheduled for August 1. The government also appealed to...
The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has instructed senior police officers to ensure the protection of participants in the #EndBadGovernance protests set for August 1-10,...
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, on Friday asked individuals behind the #EndBadGovernance protests in the country to submit their details to the Force authorities. Egbetokun,...
Police on Thursday restricted the non-teaching staff unions in the universities from carrying out a planned streets protest in Abuja. The unions that comprise the Non-Academic...
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...
