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From initially expressing unease about the protests billed to start today, the government changed its stance to advocating “peaceful protests.” It was a smart move. If they had refused people the chance to protest outrightly, they would have fuelled the rage driving them. By asking them to exercise their rights, albeit peacefully, they took the […]

  “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” — Helen Keller (1880-1968)   AS I write this, we were in the evening of the first day of protests tagged #EndBadGovernance, organised by several civil society organisations in reaction to the worsening economic situation in the country. The protests were […]

The Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has disconnected the Kaduna Government House over N2.9 billion debt.   The company in a statement signed by the Head, Corporation Communication, Abdulazeez Abdullahi, said the government house had not paid for electricity consumed in seven months.   Recall that in the early hours of Friday, the state government […]

Amnesty International has claimed that 13 persons were killed in the first day of the nationwide protests that hit parts of the country, calling for a probe.    In a public statement on Friday, the humanitarian group listed the states where the killings took place. It said six persons were killed in Suleja, Niger state, […]

The Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh, has said he will probe the exclusion of Nigerian athlete, Favour Ofili, from the 100m Women’s event at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympic Games.   On Tuesday, the sprinter announced that she will not be competing in the 100-metre race at the ongoing Olympics in Paris […]

Twenty-four hours before the planned 10-day hunger protest, the Federal Government took some proactive steps to quell the demonstration.   Recall that recently, a group, the Take It Back movement called for a nationwide protest against hunger and bad governance in the country.   The group tagged the protest, “Days of Rage” which it said […]

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  A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, says President Bola Tinubu came into office with limited experience in managing a complex country like Nigeria. “The best of his experience was sitting and managing Lagos. Lagos is not Nigeria,” Sowunmi said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday. “You cannot run […]

President Bola Tinubu has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to sell crude to Dangote Refinery and other upcoming refineries in Naira.   The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, made this known in a post via his official X handle on Monday.   Onanuga stated that the move, […]