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TIB Demands Immediate Release Of #EndBadGovernance Protesters Lenin, Opaluwa, Mosiu From Police Custody

4 months ago1124 min

  A human rights advocacy organisation, Take It Back (TIB) Movement, has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Eleojo Opaluwa, Michael Adaramoye, popularly known as Michael Lenin and Mosiu Abolaji, who were reportedly abducted, blindfolded by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and handed over to the police in Abuja.   The TIB, which made the demand on Monday said that Opaluwa, Lenin and Abolaji were abducted by the secret police...

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Everyone Involved In Attack, Killing Of #EndBadGovernance Protesters Will Be Made To Pay, Says Sowore

4 months ago897 min

Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and Convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, has issued a stern warning that all individuals responsible for the attacks and killings of peaceful protesters during the #EndBadGovernance demonstrations will be made to pay dearly for their actions. Sowore condemned the unjust treatment of peaceful protesters, who were attacked, killed, arrested, and detained during the 10-day nationwide protest against hunger, hardship, and bad governance under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.   He...

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We’ll Sue Tinubu Govt For Attacked, Arrested, Detained, Slain #EndBadGovernance Protesters, Says Sowore

4 months ago1247 min

Omoyele Sowore, human rights activist and Convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, has announced that organisers of the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests will take legal action against the Nigerian government. This decision comes after peaceful protesters faced attacks, killings, arrests, and detentions by police and other security agencies during the 10-day nationwide demonstration against hunger, hardship, and bad governance under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. In an interview with Saturday PUNCH, Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the Africa...

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Ondo YPP Campaign Council Demands Immediate Release Of AAC Governorship Candidate, Wizeman, Other Protesters

5 months ago2664 min

The Akinmurele/Obe Governorship Campaign Council, the campaign council of the Young Progressives Party(YPP) in the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election, John Akinmurele, has demanded an immediate and unconditional release of the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the state, Ajayi Kunle Wizeman by the Nigerian police.   The YPP Campaign Council in a statement pn Saturday obtained by SaharaReporters also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters arrested...

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#EndBadGovernance: Over 1000 Protesters Currently In Prison Custody – Amnesty International

5 months ago892 min

According to the Amnesty International, at least 632 protesters are being held in Kano State, while over 109 are being detained in Sokoto prison custody.  Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, has reported that over 1000 Nigerians who participated in a nationwide protest against worsening hunger and misgovernance are currently being held in prison custody across the country.    The organisation criticised the administration of President Bola Tinubu for responding to the peaceful protests with...

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BREAKING: There Was No Record Of Police Shooting Of Protesters, Says Inspector-General Egbetokun

5 months ago739 min

  The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has denied the police excessive use of force on the protesters and shooting of live ammunition at the protesters during the ongoing nationwide hunger and hardship protest.   The IGP’s denial came on Tuesday while fielding questions at the joint security press briefing in Abuja, despite video and photos evidences making the rounds on social media of policemen shooting live ammunition at the peaceful #EndBadGovernance protesters. ...

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Protesters vandalise shops, businesses in Zamfara
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Protesters vandalise shops, businesses in Zamfara

5 months ago823 min

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Gusau town, the Zamfara State capital, on Monday, as the #EndToBadGovernanceInNigeria protest entered its fifth day across many states of the country. The protesters, who were mostly youths, blocked the major highways leading to Gusau town, thereby making the movement of goods and services to a standstill. The protesters later moved to the town and began to break up the shops and carted away properties worth billions...

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BREAKING: Soyinka Criticises Tinubu’s Address For Ignoring State’s Brutal Crackdown On #EndBadGovernance Protesters

5 months ago2796 min

  Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that President Bola Tinubu’s nationwide address on Sunday failed to address the attacks on #EndBadGovernance protesters by security agencies. Soyinka made the observation in a statement on Sunday following Tinubu’s address to the nation. The #EndBadGovernance protests continued on Sunday, marking their fourth day, as demonstrators voiced their frustrations over the country’s deepening economic hardship, escalating poverty, and ineffective governance.   Soyinka said, “I set my alarm...

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Coalition Of 55 CSOs Slams Tinubu Govt For Inaction Despite Adequate Warnings From #EndBadGovernance Protesters

5 months ago9612 min

A coalition of 55 civil society organisations in Nigeria has issued a joint statement condemning the violence and looting associated with the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests.   The CSOs blamed the situation on the attitude of political leaders at all levels of government. They noted that restricting citizens’ right to protest is undemocratic and emphasised that peaceful protest is a legitimate form of expression protected by international human rights instruments and Nigeria’s Constitution.   The statement...

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Police deny killing teenager while dispersing protesters in Abuja
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Police deny killing teenager while dispersing protesters in Abuja

5 months ago1084 min

The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igweh has said his men were not responsible for the death of a teenager in the Kubwa area of the FCT. In a viral video, a man claimed that police, while dispersing protesters, shot dead a teenager in the Kubwa area. However, the FCT command spokesperson , Josephine Adeh, in a statement on Saturday said police officers deployed to the area were not given lethal arms that...

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