Tag Archives: #EndBadGovernance

The 114 #EndBadGovernance protesters who were discharged by the court on Tuesday have arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. PREMIUM TIMES reported that the protesters (minors and adults) were discharged by the Federal High Court Abuja after the court struck out treason charges against them. The trial judge, Obiora Egwatu, struck out the case after the Director of Public Prosecutions of ...

The Federal Government has withdrawn the treason charge it entered against minors who participated in the recent #EndBadGovernance protest that was held across the country. FG, through the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, officially took over the case file on Tuesday and notified the Federal High Court in Abuja of ...

There are plans by the organisers of the just concluded #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria protest held nationwide from August 1 to 10, 2024, to stage another protest in October. The Director of Mobilisation of the Take It Back Movement, Damilare Adenola, made this known yesterday. He said the protesters’ demands would remain the same unless there were other issues, requiring them to add ...

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 poll, Peter Obi, has urged Nigerian leaders to reflect deeply on the growing poverty in the country. Obi also wants some concerns to be shown to the growing suffering masses in our midst. Writing on his X handle on Sunday, the LP standard-bearer said, “With the #Endbadgovernance protests officially concluded ...

Former Nigeria’s Vice-President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of adopting propaganda, misinformation and disinformation as a state policy. Atiku made this accusation in a statement signed by his media aide, Paul Ibe, and made available to NewsProbe on Thursday. The statement reads, “In the ...

#EndBadGovernance organisers have announced a three-day mourning period to honour the memories of their fallen colleagues who were killed by security agents during the protests. The mourning period commences today, Wednesday, 7 August and ends on Friday, 9 August with a public symposium and candlelight procession. In a statement by Hassan Soweto, Ayoyinka Oni and Adegboyega Adeniji, on behalf of ...

    In continuation of the ongoing nationwide protests in different parts of Nigeria, the #EndBadGovernance protesters have reportedly stormed the residence of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to demonstrate against the hike in the cost of living in the country. The Punch reported that the protesters, seen in large numbers in a viral video ...

  As the nationwide #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests enter the third day, the Nigerian military says it will intervene if violence recorded in some states escalates. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, said the military would step in to control the looting and violence being witnessed in some parts of the ...

A group of 36 civil society organisations in Nigeria have condemned what they call internet disruptions amid the hardship protests going on nationwide. The coalition made their views known in a statement signed by 36 of them. The statement reads, “We, the undersigned organisations, in the strongest terms possible, condemn the intentional disruption of access to the internet in Nigeria ...

Controversial social media critic, Martin Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has alleged that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is attempting to bully the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters by restricting them to the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja. The Punch reported that VeryDarkMan, who spoke moments before police teargassed protesters at the Berger Roundabout in Abuja on Friday, said ...