Posts tagged as: Protest

Pollution: Protesting Host Communities Shut Down Port Harcourt  Int’l  Airport

LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The people of Omagwa and Ipo communities in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State have barricaded the entrance of the Port Harcourt International Airport while protesting lack of power supply and other amenities. The protest has disrupted flight operations as air travellers are stranded, just as the situation has caused a […]

Lagos Indigenes Protest Against South-West States Indigenes ‘Hijack’ Governorship Slot

LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Lagos-based socio-cultural organisation, De Renaissance Patriots, has stated that political parties in Nigeria must pick their candidates for governorship position in the state from the indigenous people of Lagos “Ibile Eko.”  The group stated this in a release titled, “We are real, we are not faceless people: Men behind De Renaissance […]

Nigerians Protest Economic Hardship, Say ” ‘This Pain Of Hunger Is Too Much’

LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Nigerians demonstrated against the soaring cost of living in the south of the country on Monday after huge protests in the north earlier this month. Nigeria is suffering an economic crisis and soaring prices have left many people struggling to afford food. Demonstrators in the southwestern city Ibadan were furious […]

Senegal: Student Dies As Violent Clashes Spread Over Election Postponement

LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violent protests in Senegal against the postponement of presidential elections have spread across the country, with the first fatality reported. A student died in clashes with police on Friday in the northern city of Saint-Louis, an opposition leader and a local hospital source said. In the capital Dakar, security forces fired tear […]

Kirikiri Inmates Protest Forcible Administration Of COVID-19 Vaccine, Exorbitant Sale Of Foodstuff

LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is mounting anxiety over alleged maltreatment and forcible administration of COVID-19 vaccine on inmates of the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos. Sources alleged that six inmates died after recent administration of the vaccine, while others exhibited speech disorder and abnormal behaviour. According to sources, the inmates, as a result of the […]

Protest Rocks Gbagada As Fleeing Motorist Kill Two  LAWMA Highway Sweepers In Lagos 

LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck, yesterday, when a car owner, who was alleged to be running away from arrest, crushed two highway sweepers of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, to death at Gbagada area of the state. An eyewitness, narrated that the car owner was on top speed, while trying to evade arrest allegedly by […]

Protesting Workers Shut Down Abuja Airport Over Attack On NLC President

LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Thursday grounded activities at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International in Abuja.  The move is part of actions by the unions following an attack on the president of the NLC Joe Ajaero in Imo State. . But what started as […]

Repentant Boko Haram Members Storm Maiduguri, Protest Hunger, Poor Welfare

LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some former members of the Islamist militia, Boko Haram, protested in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Friday alleging abandonment by the government. About 6,900 members of Boko Haram surrendered to the Nigerian authorities and renounced their membership of the terrorist organisation. The former terrorists, who are undergoing a deradicalisation and rehabilitation […]

Group Protest Against Tinubu’s Petrol Subsidy, Naira  Policies In Osun

LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A coalition of civil society organisations, on Monday, stormed the streets of Osogbo, Osun State capital, to protest against economic hardship, among other challenges being faced by Nigerians. The protesters were against the recent petrol subsidy removal, Naira floating and other reforms of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration. Recall that the group […]

Boards: Labour Party, Peter Obi Protest As Tinubu Offers Opposition Govs Slots

LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party and its standard bearer in the last presidential election, Peter Obi, have kicked against the offer of board slots to state governors, including those elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, by President Bola Tinubu. Kwara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria […]

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