Tag: OCTOBER 1ST

Independence Day: “We’re hungry” – Nigerians chant in protest

Aminu Imam
Nigerians chant on independence

In an Independence Day protest, Nigerians hit the streets in Abuja and Lagos, chanting, “We are hungry”. In Abuja and Lagos, hordes of protesters venting displeasure over the cost of living hit the streets as Nigeria marked its 64th Independence Day yesterday. The protesters chanted slogans that read: “What are you saying? We are hungry”, as they walked through the streets in Abuja. Similarly, in Lagos, protesters held placards lamenting economic hardships in the country. “Place all politicians on minimum wage,” “reverse electricity tariff”, inscriptions on their placards read.This followed…

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Nigeria@64: “Oct. 1 protest will hold at Eagle Square” – Organisers tell Police

Aminu Imam
Oct.1 protest organisers

Organisers of the #FearlessOctober1 protest have declared that the Police, Department of State Services (DSS), and the military would not stop them from embarking on the demonstration as planned. The organisers have also written to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to request security during the demonstration, noting that protest is a fundamental right which they would not submit to any State agent. The nation will celebrate its 64th independence on Tuesday, October 1, the day some Nigerian youths have taken to protest the hardship occasioned by the removal…

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October 1: “We don’t want protest to degenerate into riot” – FG

Aminu Imam
FG on Oct 1 protest

As protesters prepare for October 1 2024 protest, tagged: ‘#FearlessInOctober’, the Federal government says it is working to ensure that it does not degenerate into riots. Recall that October 1 has been slated for the #FearlessInOctober protest, which is an offshoot of an earlier protest in August. The protest is aimed to demonstrate against the growing hunger and poverty in the nation, fuelled by the rising cost of living. However, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Omanuga, was quoted as saying that security agencies are already…

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Bauchi Discussion Circle: The Circle of Northern Nigerian Politics and Nigeria’s Independence Top of Form

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Abubakar Al-Sadique & Abubakar Ahmed On October 1, few days from this day, amalgamated Nigeria will be 63 years in independence. The first of October every year is being celebrated as the nation’s independence anniversary day because it was the day the country secured its independence from Britain after being colonized for forty-six years from the 1914 amalgamation. This makes the anniversary day the most important date in the political diary of the country. Unlike other countries that had to shed blood securing their independence, Nigeria in 1960 became…

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