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EndBadGovernance protest: Court freezes 32 individuals, coys’ bank accounts

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 26 August 2024 0

A Federal High Court in Abuja has frozen the bank accounts of 32 individuals and companies’ linked to the 10-day #EndBadGovernance Protest organised across the country pending investigation and prosecution of the case. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on the ex-parte motion moved by counsel for

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Nationwide Protests: Group  Wants Urgent Prosecution of Sponsors

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 18 August 2024 0

..Commends Security Agencies Over Arrest of Bashir Hadeija The Citizens United Against Terrorism (CUAT) has called for an immediate prosecution of highly placed Nigerians involved in the sponsoring of the last nationwide  protest. The group also commended  security agencies for the arrest of alleged gunrunner and cross-border criminal, Bashir Hadejia. At a press

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EndBadGovernance: Atiku, PDP, RSM kick as Tinubu begs protesters not to shutdown economy

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.Tinubu’s speech hollow, diversionary, failed to address hardship of Nigerians – Atiku, PDP .Address mockery of ordinary people, full of arrogance, empty promises – RSM .President hasn’t disappointed Nigerians, says Okupe By Tunde Opalana Mixed reactions have greeted the early Sunday nationwide broadcast by President Bola Tinubu to address the state of the

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The August 1 protest and government’s Response

Ihesiulo Grace 4 August 2024 0

On August 1, 2024, the streets of the nation were alive with the voices of its youth, echoing their demands for better governance, job opportunities and a more inclusive political process.  The protest was a significant moment in the nation’s democratic journey. The protest was largely driven by the youth, who constitute a significant portion […]

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Nigerian Tech Community Withdraws From Nationwide Protest, Applauds NCC Boss

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 30 July 2024 0

After careful consideration and deliberation in Lagos, some tech entrepreneurs said they have decided to withdraw from the proposed August 1 nationwide protest. Despite the current economic hardship affecting even the tech ecosystem, the Nigerian Tech Community (NTC) believes that protests do not provide solutions to the nation’s challenges. A statement signed by its

Politics

Hardship: Shun planned nationwide protest, Tinubu’s aide urges S/East youths

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 29 July 2024 0

By Chijioke Njoku The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement South East, Mrs Chioma Nweze has urged youths in the region to shun the planned nationwide hunger protest. Nweze who made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen weekend urged the youths to dialogue with the federal government led […]

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Bodies denounce planned protest

Ihesiulo Grace 28 July 2024 0

National Leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and former Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso yesterday warned that the planned anti-government protest would not be in the best interest of the country, especially coming at this time in point. He asked the protest organisers to rather channel their energies into more effective means of […]

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Planned nationwide protest: Military will not watch Nigeria thrown into state of anarchy – DHQ

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 25 July 2024 0

BY ANDREW OROLUA The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said that the planned nationwide protest is an open invitation to widespread violence and that the military would not fold it’s arms and watch the country be thrown into a state of anarchy. The Director Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba who issued the warning during […]

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Planned protest: FG pleads for more time

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.Says all issues will be resolved in a way to ensure peace, stability .NLC clarifies position on looming protest, says it’s not part of organisers By Ihesiulo Grace & Ukpono Ukpong The Federal Government FG, has appealed to Nigerians for more time to address the hardship bedevilling the country, saying it is not sleeping on […]

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Nigerians in Rome protest, ask Italian Govt to sanction Nigeria over 2023 polls

Ihesiulo Grace 24 April 2023 0

BY TOSIN ADAMS Nigerians resident in Italy have through a protest rally, lent their voices in condemnation of the happenings in the nation’s polity following the general elections of 2023. The protest rally which took place on April 20 at Piazza Dell’Esquilino Rome according to them was a way of expressing their disgust to the […]

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Protests might push Nigeria into recession

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2020 0

By Tunde Shorunke Industry experts in different sectors of Nigeria’s economy are lamenting the adverse effects of the #EndSars protest which they fear might fuel recession beyond the limit. Economists also pointed out that the federal government should ensure the security of lives and property to restore normalcy in other to regain local and foreign […]

Abuja Times News

#EndSARSNow: Protesters take over Police headquarters (photos)

Ihesiulo Grace 8 October 2020 0

By Ukpong, Abuja Following public outcry of the recent upsurge of extrajudicial killings by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), protesters on Thursday stormed the Police headquarters demanding immediate disbandment of the unit. Daily Times gathered that notable among the protesters includes, the Presidential Candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), in the 2019

Editorial

EDITORIAL: The right to protest: Matters arising

Ihesiulo Grace 30 September 2020 0

A Daily Times report of Friday September 11, states that the recent increase in the pump price of petrol and electricity tariff by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been met with stiff opposition by the Nigerian public. This has resulted in mass protests in the different parts of the country. The unions braced up for […]

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NLC suspends protest in Rivers State

Ihesiulo Grace 8 September 2020 0

The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended its planned protest in Rivers State after it reached an agreement with the state government. Recall Daily Times Nigeria reports that the congress had on Monday vowed to go ahead with its protest scheduled to take place today in the state. READ ALSO: NLC, aviation unions to shut P/H […]

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Fuel and electricity hike: Protesters hit the streets of Osogbo

Ihesiulo Grace 4 September 2020 0

Disgruntled members of the Coalition for Civil Societies in Osun State took to the streets on Friday morning to protest against the hike in electricity tariff and petrol price. The protest began from Freedom Park, Osogbo around 8:30 am, DAILY TIMES gathered. The protesters were seen carrying placards to show their grievances over the increase […]

Featured Foreign

Tens of thousands rally across Germany to protest against racism

Ihesiulo Grace 7 June 2020 0

Berlin – Tens of thousands of protesters took part in demonstrations in major German cities on Saturday to protest against racism and police violence following the killing of George Floyd. Police estimated around 15,000 people flooded into Berlin’s central Alexanderplatz square, with officers taking to Twitter 45 minutes in to declare the square “full” and to […]

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Gombe COVID-19 protest manifestation of prevailing socioeconomic, psychological challenges – Govt

Ihesiulo Grace 7 May 2020 0

Gombe – The Gombe State Task Force on COVID-19  on Wednesday described as the protest by some Coronavirus symptomatic patients in the state as “emotional protest” Dr Mohammed Kwami, the State Focal Officer on COVID-19 pandemic Response, said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Gombe. The COVID-19 patients at  the Kwadon isolation […]

Foreign

Hungry residents demand food in protest, 20 arrested in Philippines

Ihesiulo Grace 1 April 2020 0

Residents of a slum area in the Philippine capital on Wednesday staged a protest to demand relief goods amid a month-long lockdown that has left many of them without work, forcing police to break the picket up and arrest 20 of them. The residents of the district of San Roque in the suburban Manila city […]

Foreign

Rage over femicide fuels 80,000-strong women’s march in Mexico City

Ihesiulo Grace 9 March 2020 0

Some 80,000 people joined a largely-peaceful International Women’s Day march in Mexico City on Sunday in an act of protest against the rising rate of gender-based killings in the country, where an average of 10 women are murdered each day. Women carried banners reading “On the way home I want to feel free, not brave” […]

Politics

Protest against Ajimobi unnecessary, ill-conceived Oyo APC members told

Ihesiulo Grace 29 February 2020 0

Ibadan – A prominent indigene of Oyo State, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, has cautioned members of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  over the protests against the nomination of former Gov. Abiola Ajimobi as Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party. He made the call in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in […]