Day: August 3, 2024

Protesters Storm Kano Streets With Russian Flags

ADEOLA YUSUF

In the midst of the ongoing protests across the country, young people in Kano State have taken to the streets, waving Russian flags and calling for intervention from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nigerians first began protesting on Thursday, August 1, demanding better governance and an end to severe issues such as food inflation, general inflation, and the high cost of living. The sight of Russian flags underscores the deep frustration with the Nigerian government’s handling of the economic crisis, which has exacerbated hunger and hardship across the country, SaharaReporters reported.…

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#EndBadGovernance Protests: Tinubu To Address Nigerians Sunday

Ganiyu Amodu

President Bola Tinubu has succumbed to growing calls for him to address the nation amid widespread #EndBadGovernance protests that entered its third day on Saturday. The ex-Lagos governor who has been at the centre of rallies against economic hardship and high living cost that have reverberated across Nigeria’s 36 states and the nation’s capital Abuja will address over 200 million citizens on Sunday, August 4, 2024, at 7:00 am, his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement. “Television, radio, and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to plug into the…

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Manless and happy, By Funke Egbemode

ADEOLA YUSUF

Without a man, you could spend a week in the same clothes without a shower if you want. You can wear your comfortable black bra for two weeks. Who will know when there is no boyfriend ‘doing general checking?   We all experience it at one point or the other, that dry season when a woman is simply totally ‘manless’. The men can’t find you or you can’t find them. What you choose to do with this break now depends on you but I can tell you for free that…

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We’ll Intervene If Protest Gets Out Of Hands, Military Warns

Abibat Babalola

Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, on Friday, warned that the military will intervene if violence persists in the ongoing nationwide #EndbadGovernance protests. Musa stated this while reacting to the vandalisation and looting of properties that characterised the protest in many parts of the country on Thursday. In Kano, protesters looted the newly built Nigeria Communications Commission Industrial Park and set parts of it ablaze. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre was scheduled for commissioning next week. The CDS, while briefing newsmen on Friday, urged protesters to recognise…

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Police Kill 21 Hunger Protesters, Arrest 1,154 – CSO

Abibat Babalola

Organised Civil Society of Nigeria says according to data obtained through its Civil Society Protest Monitoring Situation Room, no fewer than 21 persons have been killed since August 1 when the nationwide protests against hunger began. It also claimed 1,154 others were arrested by the police on the first day of the nationwide protests, popularly dubbed #EndBadGovernance. Head of the Coordinating Secretariat of the United Action Front of Civil Society, Olawale Okunniyi, in a statement on Friday, on behalf of the group, stated that 175 persons sustained injuries. Okunniyi stated…

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‘PIA, Nat’l Security,’ Why NMDPRA Must Not Allow Fuel Supply Monopoly In Nigeria – Institute

Gbenga Adeoti

No single person or institution can owe and control more than 40 per cent of fuel supply and distribution”      The Institute for Energy and Extractive Industry Law has declared that the Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Authority (NMDPRA) has no power to encourage or guarantee a monoppoly of fuel supply and distribution in Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports that two resource persons from the institute; Dr. Taiwo Ogunleye and Henry Adigun, said this during separate presentations at a one-day roundtable on ‘The Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Industry in Nigeria:…

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