Tag: Nationwide Broadcast

Broadcast: “Tinubu’s speech diversionary, failed to address issues” – PDP, Atiku

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PDP, Atiku

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has labelled President Bola Tinubu’s speech to the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters as a distraction. In an issued statement yesterday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said the speech failed to address the protesters’ concerns. With economic hardships worsening, many Nigerians are struggling to afford basic necessities. In reaction to these conditions, youths began protests last Thursday, which have continued through Saturday in cities such as Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Kano, Rivers, and others, demanding an end to hunger and poor governance. In a nationwide broadcast yesterday,…

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“Tinubu’s speech failed to address police brutality against hunger protesters”  – Soyinka

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Soyinka on protest

Nigeria’s Nobel Laurette, Wole Soyinka, has condemned Tinubu over his failure to address the spate of Police brutality on #EndBadGovernance protesters. Reacting in a statement to the President’s address to the nation earlier today, Soyinka expressed concern over Police’s poor protest management which Tinubu failed to address in his speech. Recounting how he had anticipated for the President’s speech, Soyinka decried how live bullets and tear gas are deployed against protesters- a situation he described as questionable. According to him, “The continuing deterioration of the state’s seizure of protest management,…

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Tinubu to address Nigerians in nationwide broadcast today

Aminu Imam
Tinubu broadcast

President Bola Tinubu will address the nation in a televised/radio broadcast today, Sunday, at 7:00 am. According to an issued statement by Special Adviser to the President(Media & Publicity), Ajuri Ngelale, television, radio, and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to plug into the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority, (NTA), and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, (FRCN), for the broadcast. The broadcast will be repeated on the network services of the NTA and the FRCN at 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm on the same day.

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Nationwide Broadcast: President Tinubu assures workers upward review of salaries

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…Says over N1 trillion from subsidy removal saved President Bola Tinubu has revealed that negotiations with the Organised Labour on the upward review of pay were ongoing, as part of his administration’s overall objectives to lessen the effects of inflation on Nigerian workers. Tinubu, who made the revelation at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, while participating in a nationwide broadcast, stated that once the conditions of a new minimum wage were agreed upon, budget provisions would be created to pay the review. The President’s elimination of a nearly four-decade-old petrol…

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