Protesters have taken to the streets in Kastina State, waving the Russian flag, after three days of relative calm. The organizers of the #EndBadGovernance protests had declared that the exercise would run from August 1 to August 10. President Bola Tinubu, however, in his nationwide broadcast on Sunday, appealed to the protesters to halt their…
Bangladesh’s prime minister has resigned and fled to India following weeks of deadly protests in the country. Reports of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 76, resigning were confirmed by the army, as well as Bangladesh High Commission Officials in Delhi. According to the country’s leading national paper, Hasina and her sister took a military helicopter to…
President Bola Tinubu is currently hosting a Security Council meeting at the Presidential Villa. At the meeting, the service chiefs and Inspector General of Police, among others, will brief the President on the security situation in the country. The meeting which started at 2:00 pm has in attendance the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, National Security…
Former Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has expressed bewilderment at the genocidal threat for Ndigbo to quit South West, saying that such a call amounts to asking them to exit Nigeria. Those behind the #IgboMustGo campaign, have given Ndigbo living in Lagos and other parts of South West zone, up to August 20, to relocate…
On Monday, #EndBadGovernance protesters, including a half-naked man, assembled at Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota, Lagos State, despite the presence of heavily armed police personnel. The protesters, who have been demonstrating since Thursday, August 1, 2024, vowed to continue their nationwide protest against hunger, hardship, and bad governance under President Bola Tinubu’s administration for…
Just four months after the well-known actor Junior Pope passed away, actress Adanma Luke was released from suspension by the Actors Guild of Nigeria, or AGN. The film “The Other Side of Life,” which starred the late actor Junior Pope, was produced by Adanma Luke. On April 10, 2024, Junior Pope and four other crew…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled against the sale of Nigeria Air Ltd to Ethiopian Airlines. In his ruling on Monday, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa prohibited the sale and directed that the Federal Government’s plan to establish a national carrier, Nigeria Air, should not proceed. This decision was made while granting the requests of…
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has expressed concern over President Bola Tinubu’s national address on the ongoing hunger protests. The NEF said the President was silent on the severe security situation in the North-West and other parts of the North. In a statement released on Monday by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman,…
The Federal Government has announced that the first batch of 50-kilogram bags of rice, priced at N40,000, will initially be sold to public servants before being made available to other regions of the country. The Minister of Agriculture, Senator Abubakar Kyari, made this announcement during an interview on Sunday in Abuja. Kyari explained that public…
Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested one of the leaders of the ongoing #Endbadgovernance protests in the Federal Capital Territory, Micheal Lenin. Lenin was picked up by the DSS around 2 am on Monday at his residence in the Apo area of the FCT. The Director of Mobilisation, Take It Back Movement,…
