Tag: PROTEST

June 12 protest: Falana, CSOs rally Nigerians against hardship, insecurity

Aminu Imam
Falana, CSOs rally against hardship

…As UAD calls for mass action Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana and a coalition of civil society organisations have intensified mobilisation for a nationwide protest scheduled for June 12, urging Nigerians to take to the streets over worsening insecurity, economic hardship, and what they describe as failures in governance. The planned demonstration, slated for today which coincides with Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebration, is expected to be held in major cities across the country and is aimed at drawing attention to rising cases of kidnapping, violent attacks, unemployment, inflation, and the…

Read More

Kidnapping: Hausa community in Ibadan protests against ethnic profiling

Aminu Imam
Hausa community protests ethnic profiling

Hundreds of members of the Hausa community in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest against what they described as increasing ethnic profiling, discrimination and stigmatization of their people following recent kidnapping incidents in parts of the state. The demonstrators, comprising community leaders, traders, youths and residents from various Hausa settlements across the city, marched through major streets carrying placards with inscriptions such as: ‘Stop Ethnic Profiling’, ‘Criminals Have No Tribe’, ‘We Are Law-Abiding Citizens’, and ‘Justice, Not Stigmatization’. The protest comes amid heightened security concerns…

Read More

NANS plans 3-day protest over abduction of Borno schoolchildren

Aminu Imam
NANS tells Tinubu

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Zone-E (North-East), has announced plans to stage a peaceful solidarity protest over the abduction of 42 students of Government Day Secondary School, Mussa, in Askira/Uba local government area of Borno States. The planned demonstration, scheduled to hold from June 5 to June 7, will take place simultaneously across the North-East states of Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba. The development was contained in a notice issued by the Chief of Staff to the NANS Zone-E Coordinator, Lukman Yusuf, who said the protest is aimed…

Read More

Oyo school abductions: Protests, as kidnappers demand direct talks with FG

Aminu Imam
Oyo protesters demand talks with FG

Residents of Oyo state yesterday staged protests demanding the immediate release of dozens of pupils and teachers abducted by gunmen in Oriire local government area, as fresh details emerged that the kidnappers have refused to negotiate with victims’ families and are insisting on direct communication with government officials. The demonstrations came amid an indefinite strike declared by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) across public primary and secondary schools in the state.  The union’s action followed the May 15 attack in the Ogbomoso axis, where heavily armed men raided three…

Read More

Retired police officers plan protest at Aso Villa

Aminu Imam
Police officers plan protest

The Union of Retired Police Officers under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) has announced plans to stage a peaceful protest at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday next week, if the Bill to exit the Nigeria Police from the CPS remains unsigned by the deadline. Chairman of Kaduna State Chapter, retired Chief Superintendent of Police Mannir M. Lawal (Zaria), and the retired Assistant Superintendent of Police ÆŠanlami Maigamo, stated this in a press statement jointly signed and made available to VoL in Kaduna. According to the statement, this follows the outcome…

Read More

FCT workers protest in Abuja, demands Wike’s removal

Aminu Imam
FCT workers protest

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister faced the anger of workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) yesterday over an unresolved labour dispute.  The workers, backed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), protested at the National Industrial Court in Abuja, demanding the removal of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.  The protest followed a directive from the NLC, which declared full support for the industrial action and described the strike as justified in the face of what it termed persistent violations of workers’ rights by the FCTA management and political…

Read More

#FreeNnamdiKanu: Sowore, others barred from protesting near Villa, NASS

Aminu Imam
Sowore, others barred

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has restrained the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and others from protesting tomorrow Monday in some areas in Abuja, including the Aso Rock Villa, for the release of detained the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The court also barred the protesters from anywhere close to the Presidential Villa, National Assembly, Force Headquarters, Court of Appeal, Eagle Square, and Shehu Shagari Way, pending the hearing of the Motion on notice. Justice Mohammed Umar, on Friday, granted the ex-parte…

Read More

NANS distance itself from planned Nnamdi Kanu’s protest 

Aminu Imam
NANS distance itself

The National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), has distanced itself from a planned protest allegedly being organised by activist, Omoyele Sowore and his associates in the name of the student body. Addressing newsmen at a press conference in Ibadan, Oyo state, its President, Olushola Oladoja, described the claim circulating on social media that the Association would join a ‘#FreeNnamdiKanu Protest’ slated for October 20 as false, mischievous, and politically motivated. He stressed that NANS had no affiliation with Sowore or any politically driven group, insisting that the student body remains…

Read More

SSANU, NASU mobilise members for ‘massive protest’ today

Aminu Imam
SSANU, NASU mobilise

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have announced a one-day protest scheduled for today Thursday, citing the Federal Government’s continued failure to address their longstanding demands. Operating under the Joint Action Committee (JAC), both unions have instructed their branches to hold emergency meetings on Wednesday to prepare and mobilise members for the protest. Planned activities include campus marches, placard demonstrations, and press briefings. The unions said the decision comes after a thorough assessment of the government’s inaction…

Read More

Pensioners threaten nationwide ‘naked protest’ over unpaid benefits

Aminu Imam
Pensioners threaten

The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria has threatened a nationwide naked protest on Oct. 6., if the Government fails to implement pension increments and palliatives. The coalition’s National Chairman, Mukaila Ogunbote, announced this during a news conference on Tuesday, in Lagos. Ogunbote, who also chairs the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, (NUP) NIPOST Chapter, said pensioners had given the government until September to settle arrears, increments,, and palliatives. He warned that failure to act would leave the pensioners with no choice but to embark on a nationwide naked protest on…

Read More