Tag: Protesters

EndBadGovernance: “Stop the protest, come for dialogue” Tinubu tells organisers

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Tinubu 2 organisers

President Bola Tinubu yesterday urged protesters in the on-going #EndBadGovernace protests to stop the demonstrations and create room for dialogue. The President, who stated this in a nationwide broadcast to the nation, said “ Under the circumstances, I hereby enjoin protesters and the organisers to suspend any further protest and create room for dialogue, which I have always acceded to at the slightest opportunity”. Recall that protests broke out across the nation on August 1 to draw attention to growing hunger and sufferings in the land. The protests turned violent…

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Hunger protesters heckle Minister at Eagles Square, Abuja

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Protesters heckle Minister

Protesters at the Eagle Square Abuja, yesterday, heckled the Minister of State for Youths Development, Ayodele Olawande, who came to address them. According to reports, as the Minister tried to address the crowd, the protesters continued to chant “hunger dey”, preventing the minister from speaking. However, after quelling the crowd, the Minister said he wasn’t attempting to shut down the protest, describing himself as a comrade who has attended between a hundred and five hundred protests. “I’m not here to fight you, I’m not here to ask you not to…

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Planned Nationwide Protest: “Show your faces” – FG challenges organisers

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FG challenges protesters

Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has challenged the organisers of the nationwide protest scheduled for August 1 to 10, to reveal who they are. Matawalle asked Nigerians to ignore the protests, which he suggested was being planned to cause violence in the country. The Minister’s comment was contained in a statement by the Director of Information, Ministry of Defence, Henshaw Ogubike, he called on Nigerians to remain calm and ignore the planned national protest scheduled for next week. The statement quoted Matawalle as saying: “The persons behind the…

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Katsina: Residents block major roads in protest against bandit attacks

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Residents of ?ankara local government area in Katsina State took to the streets on Saturday, blocking major roads to protest against ongoing bandit attacks in their communities. The demonstrators urged the government to bolster its efforts in safeguarding lives and property. Major roads affected include the Marabar-?ankara to Katsina and Kano State routes, as well as the road linking Malumfashi to Funtua and Kaduna State. A local resident, Muhammad Sabiu, expressed frustration over the government’s response, highlighting the severe impact on the region. “The situation in these areas is dire,”…

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Ohanaeze directs Igbos not to participate in nationwide protest

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Ohanaeze directs Igbos

The pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has directed all Igbo in Nigeria not to participate in the proposed nationwide protest by some groups of people against President Bola Tinubu. The apex Igbo body, in a statement issued on Tuesday by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said it had instructed Igbos, both at home and in the Diaspora, to abstain from participating in the nationwide protests set to commence from August 1st to 10th, 2024. The group said Igbos should not join the strike because the prevailing security challenges in the Southeast region posed…

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Alleged N423bn corruption: Protesters besiege Kaduna Govt.House,demand arrest, prosecution of el-Rufa’i

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el Rufa'i protest

…Urge Gov. Uba Sani to involve EFCC Hundreds of demonstrators under the auspices of the Kaduna Citizens Watch for Good Governance, (KCWGG), yesterday descended upon the Government House in Kaduna demanding  for the arrest and investigation? of former Governor, Nasir el-Rufa’i. The protestors called on the current Governor, Uba Sani, to enlist the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other relevant agencies to address allegations of financial misconduct amounting to N423 billion during el-Rufa’i’s tenure. Chanting solidarity songs, the demonstrators carried placards with messages such as: “We will occupy all MDAs…

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Protesters storm PDP headquarters in Abuja

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PDP protesters

Protesters yesterday flooded the premises of the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, throwing their support for the Acting National Chairman of the Party, Umar Damagun and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,  (FCT), Nyesom Wike. The protesters, who displayed  placards with inscriptions pledging support for Wike and Damagun, alleged that some people within the PDP are trying to cause disaffection among the leadership. The protest occured barely an hour before the meeting of the PDP Governors Forum, and 24 hours before the PDP National…

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Terrorists’ attack: Residents protest, block Abuja-Kaduna highway

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Residents of Gonin-gora, in the Chikun local government area of Kaduna State yesterday barricaded the Kaduna-Abuja expressway while protesting the abduction of an unspecified number of people in the area, following a recent attack on their community by bandits. The residents stormed the highway protesting and urging the Government to do something over the incessant attacks by bandits in the area. According to an eyewitness, kidnappers, on Wednesday night through the early hours of yesterday, attacked the community, kidnapping an unspecified number of the residents. The Kaduna State Police Command’s…

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Protesters storm NASS, demand Defence Minister of State’s sack

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Dozens of pro-democracy activists have stormed the National Assembly in protest to demand the removal of the Minister of Defence over growing insecurity across Nigeria. The protesters carried several banners with inscriptions demanding the sack of the Minister of Defence, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, over alleged complicity in the crisis, especially in Zamfara State. The protesters, under the aegis of the ‘Civil Society Advocacy Groups for Accountability and Probity‘, also accused the Defence Minister of links to bandits responsible for the loss of lives and property in northern Nigeria. They called…

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Incompetence: Protesters demand NSA, Defence Minister’s sack

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Scores of protesters under the auspices of the Guardians of Democracy and Development Initiative (GDDI) yesterday took to the streets of Abuja, in the FCT, to demand the sack of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) along with the Minister of Defence Minister, Maj-Gen. Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) for alleged incompetence. Their spokesman, Comrade Danesi Momoh, during the protest, told President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the duo with immediate effect. Flanked by the Co-convener of the group, Igwe Ide-Umanta, Momoh said: “We wish to start with the…

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