Nigerian Governor Aide Caught Giving Money To Hoodlums To Disrupt Protest The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on youth to Ondo Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, Solomon Olaolu Kevin, has been captured on camera allegedly sharing money to thugs to disrupt the ongoing nationwide protest in the state. The hoodlums seen in a video chanting “No Protest” after they received the cash from the governor’s aide. The hoodlums were also armed with sticks, waving it to intimidate Nigerians currently exercising their civic rights in the state. It was earlier reported that for the third day in a row, a massive gathering of Lagos…
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APC Chieftain Who Led Thugs To Loot Property Identified As Tinubu, Ganduje’s Ally An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Baffa Babba Dan Agundi, who is also a prominent ally of President Bola Tinubu and former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, has been identified as the APC chieftain who allegedly led a group of thugs to disrupt the #EndBadGovernance peaceful protest in the state on Thursday. NNH reported on Friday that the APC chieftain who also took photographs with Ganduje and 2023 governorship candidate, Dr Nasiru Gawuna, was seen vandalising government property and attempting to lead violent thugs into the Government House in…
DSS, Police Operatives Shoot At Vehicle Conveying Journalists In Abuja Some operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian police who invaded the peaceful protest at the Moshood Abiola stadium in Abuja on Saturday shot at a vehicle carrying journalists from The Premium Times and The Cable newspapers. It was earlier reported that hundreds of civilian protesters were attacked and raided from the venue by lawless operatives of the Nigerian police. “They shot at us three times, it was God that saved us. The bullets hit the bumper of the car that conveyed us down there,” one…
WATCH: Nigerians Display ‘Coffin’ With Tinubu’s Poster Nigerians protesting against bad governance and current economic hardships have publicly displayed an empty coffin with the picture of President Bola Tinubu. In a viral photograph seen by Ibom Focus , the protesters were seen carrying the coffin on their heads to portray a total rejection of Tinubu’s government due to the bad policies he had imposed on them. It was earlier reported that for the third day in a row, a massive gathering of Lagos State residents and the Take-It-Back Movement converged in Ojota, Lagos State, to continue the peaceful protest. Under…
Tears As Security Operatives Brutalise Physically Challenged Protester Adisturbing incident has occurred at the Bauchi State Government House, where security personnel assaulted Hamza Waziri, the leader of the Initiative for the Liberalisation of Physically Challenged People, at the gates. A video on Friday showed security operatives wrestling with Waziri, who uses a wheelchair, in a shocking display of aggression. The incident took place on the first day of the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests in the state. Waziri, who spoke to journalists after the attack, condemned the violence, explaining that he and other physically challenged individuals were exercising their constitutional right to peaceful…
#EndBadGovernance: Fresh Trouble Hits Akpabio Nigerians are calling on the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to resign after his infamous comment that he and others in the government would be “eating” while Nigerians protest. “Those who want to protest can protest, but let us be here eating,” Mr Akpabio said on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at an event organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission. Amnesty International Nigeria, on Thursday, berated Mr Akpabio for the comment, which it described as “insensitive and reckless”. “Amnesty International strongly condemns the insensitive and reckless comments attributed to the President of the Senate…
Nigerians Defy 24-hour Curfew, Continue Protest Against Hardship On Second Day Hundreds of youths continued their protest against hardship for a second day in parts of Dutse, Jigawa State, despite a 24-hour curfew imposed by the state government. Security agencies clashed with protesters around Zai, blocking them from accessing commercial areas and major buildings. A Zai Quarters resident stated that thousands of youths, chanting anti-government slogans, resisted tear gas used by security forces to disperse them, Leadership reports. In Shuwarin, on Dutse’s outskirts, thousands of youths regrouped and resumed demonstrations. Heavy security blocked their attempts to enter the capital and…
Police Teargas Protesters In Akwa Ibom The police in Akwa Ibom State on Friday, the second day of the #EndBadGovernance protest, fired teargas cannisters to dislodge a small group of protesters at the Ibom Plaza, Uyo, the state capital. The protesters, who were about 15, carried placards with various inscriptions such as: “End bad governance in Nigeria”, “End hunger in Nigeria”, “End bad governance in Akwa Ibom State” and “reduce fuel price to N100,” among others. The protesters were singing and chanting solidarity songs, when the police fired the teargas cannisters at them, sending them to Unity Park along Udoudoma…
Military Will Take Action If Protest..…; CDS Warns Christopher Musa, chief of defence staff (CDS), says the military will intervene if the ongoing nationwide #EndbadGovernance protests persist violently. Musa spoke in reaction 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 (NCC) Industrial Park, setting parts of it ablaze. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre was scheduled for commissioning next week. Some youths were seen making away with desktop computers, chairs, keyboards, and other appliances from the centre. The…
Protesters Clash With Security Forces As One Feared Killed In Abuja Armed security operatives halted protesters marching to Eagle Square from MKO Abiola National Stadium at the Central Business District junction near the United Nations building at 12:55 pm today, firing teargas canisters to disperse the crowd. One protester is feared shot dead while trying to escape. The protesters, who began their march at 12:39 pm, regrouped at the MKO Abiola National Stadium by 1:50 pm, engaging security forces in a shouting match. They warned against the use of brute force to stop the protest, demanding that President Tinubu address…