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It is not yet Uhuru for the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the September 21, 2024, governorship election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, as a former governorship aspirant of the party, Mr Kenneth Imansuangbon, has appealed the judgement of the Benin and Abuja Federal High Courts, which affirmed Akpata’s candidature. Dissatisfied with […]

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned the attacks on #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters and journalists by security agencies. In a statement on Sunday, Soyinka expressed concern over the Federal Government’s continuing mismanagement of protests. The poet criticised the use of live bullets and tear gas by the Nigeria Police Force to manage civic protests, saying that […]

A human rights and constitutional lawyer, Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has described President Bola Tinubu’s national broadcast on the ongoing nationwide #Endbadgovernance protests as vacuous, drudgery and full of a litany of government’s alleged interventions, but being completely devoid of any concrete answers to the many itemized demands by the traumatised youthful protesters. “Aside this, […]

Human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has called on President Bola Tinubu to address the demands of the peaceful protesters. In a statement on Sunday, Falana said the Presidential speech delivered this morning failed short of addressing the key demands of the protesters. Recall that in a nationwide broadcast […]

The founder of Stanbic-IBTC Bank, Atedo Peterside, has appealed to Nigerian youths and organisers of the nationwide protests to suspend the action. In a tweet on his official X account, Peterside applauded protesters who have been peaceful in the course of the demonstration for dispelling the narrative of Nigerian youths not being politically active. He, […]

Monday Onyekachi Ubani, a newly elevated Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has called on Nigerians to halt the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests across the country following widespread violence on the first day of demonstrations. In an interview with TheScrutiny, Ubani, one of 87 lawyers recently appointed to the prestigious rank by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee […]

A legal practitioner, identified simply as JP, has stated that the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests will resume on the next Independence Day, 1 October 2024, if President Bola Tinubu fails to address the demands of the protesters. He said this on Sunday while speaking to journalists at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in the Ojota area of […]

By Lanre Adewole FOR enabling the Buhari catastrophe simply because of his selfish presidential ambition, Mr. Bola Tinubu should not have been rewarded with the Nigerian presidency, if not by men, at least by God. But Isaiah 55:8-9 has settled that mystery. It was the same way General Muhammadu Buhari should not have enjoyed a […]

Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong has knocked President Bola Tinubu’s presidential broadcast on nationwide protest, describing it as ignoring real demands of protesters. Inibehe stated that despite what Nigerians have witnessed across the country in the last three days. Recall that President Tinubu on Sunday morning while reacting to the ongoing hunger protests in a […]

The Coca-Cola System in Nigeria has refuted the allegation that it was misleading consumers in Nigeria with deceptive labelling of its products. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) recently announced that Coca-Cola Nigeria and Nigeria Bottling Company Limited (NBC) risked being fined for alleged breaches of Consumer Rights Law. But a statement issued […]

The Nigeria Police Force, on Saturday, said a total of 681 criminal elements were arrested for committing various offences between Thursday and Friday. This was as the police stated that personnel deployed for the protests had been professional. The police made this known while responding to the report released by Amnesty International which accused security […]

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Joe Ajaero has appealed to police authorities not to kill peaceful protesters. Rather, he said they should focus on killing bandits. He urged President Bola Tinubu to address the current national issue and deliver answers to all of the demands of the protesters. Ajaero said: “With unconfirmed […]