The Bauchi State Police Command has dismissed insinuating comments that its operatives shot and killed one of the violent protesters in Azare, headquarters of Katagum LGA of the state on Monday. The Command stated that its attention has been drawn to a purported video circulating online and in some sections of the media that claimed […]
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The Bauchi State chapter of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has condemned the “senseless violence and police brutality” during the #EndBadGovernance protest in Azare, the headquarters of Katagum LGA of Bauchi State. In a statement signed by Hon. Abdulazeez Haruna, State Secretary, the PRP expressed deep shock and appallment at the brutal and merciless behaviour […]
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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun has said the police, military, and other security agencies did not use excessive force on the #EndBadGovernance protesters. Speaking at a meeting of security agencies’ heads on Tuesday in Abuja, the IGP said there were attacks on security operatives deployed to manage the protests. According to the police […]
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The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday raised a red flag against the ongoing nationwide protest and the display of foreign flags during the protests as well as the calls for a military takeover of the democratically elected government, describing such actions as treasonable felonies. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in […]
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As the #EndBadGovernance protest continues, the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr Tony Ojukwu, SAN, has again condemned the continuous violation of the rights to peaceful protest and assembly, freedom of expression, and the press, as well as other associated rights, by law enforcement agencies. According to him, the recent dispersal […]
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Protesters have reacted to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s address to the nation, stating that he failed to address their demands. According to the protesters, the President should address their demands and the current hardship before coming to the negotiation table. The protest, which started on Thursday, crippled socio-economic activities across the states, as motor parks, […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rubbished the Sunday nationwide broadcast by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu following the tension in the country after Nigerians stormed major streets across states to express their grievances on the challenging situation in the country. Naija News reports that the protests, tagged #EndBadGovernance, were organized to decry the hunger crisis […]
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By Wole Soyinka The time is long overdue, surely, to abandon, permanently, the anachronistic resort to lethal means by the security agencies of governance. No nation is so underdeveloped, materially impoverished, or simply internally insecure as to lack the will to set an example. All it takes is to recall its own history, then exercise […]
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By Lasisi Olagunju “Someone should tell the president that what he said on Sunday was what the Hausa man calls dogo turenchi (long grammar). The broadcast showed that Tinubu’s understanding of what Nigerians are going through is zero. He spoke about the #EndBadGovernance protest being some people’s political agenda. If there is indeed an agenda, […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has decried how President Bola Tinubu removed fuel subsidies. He said the haphazard and unilateral removal of subsidy engendered galloping inflation that plunged the citizens into severe economic hardship. He stated that the present administration should have first taken into account the hardship the subsidy removal could cause people and how […]
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