Protest in Nigeria

The Nigerian government has called for restraint, urging citizens to forgo August 1 protest and grant more time for reforms. Ahead of the nationwide protest ...

Nigerian security forces deployed in major cities and the government said it was open to dialogue ahead of planned protests on Thursday against a cost of ...

The organisers of the hardship protest against bad governance called for 1 August in Kano State have outlined their demands, calling on the Nigerian ...

Twenty-four hours before the planned 10-day hunger protest, the Federal Government took some proactive steps to quell the demonstration.

A lecturer of banking and finance at UniAbuja has warned against the implications of the planned August protests on Nigeria's economy.

With momentum soaring on and offline, the Nigerian government fears a replay of the October 2020 #EndSARS protest which started peacefully but turned violent.

Nigerians are planning nationwide protests this week against the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the state will not allow a repeat of the 2020 #EndSARS protest experience. The governor said this while addressing ...

The proposed countrywide demonstrations to protest against alleged bad governance by the President Bola Tinubu administration, starting on Thursday, appears to ...

AHEAD of today's nationwide protest, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and his Ekiti State counterpart, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said Nigeria ...

Nigerians are planning nationwide protests this week against the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

Nigerians are organizing nationwide protests this week to address the most severe cost-of-living crisis the country has faced in decades.

Nigerians across di kontri dey protest against wetin dem describe as hunger and bad governance; Security agencies dey on ground for different locations wia ...

Nigerians have poured into the streets in major cities across the nation to protest against economic hardship despite the government's last-minute push to ...

Nyanya axis of Karu Local Government Council of the Federal Capital Territory and its neighbouring Mararaba town, in Nasarawa State, were thrown into chaos ...

Akwa Ibom ex-agitators forum says its members have been mobilized to protect public infrastructure located in their respective communities during the ...

Banks and other financial institutions in the country will be closed on Thursday, August 1, 2024, as the planned hunger strike begins across the country.

The judge ruled on Wednesday that those protesting in Abuja "are restrained by an order of interim injunction from gathering in any other place" apart from ...

Nigerian troops and police have tightened security in Lagos and the capital, Abuja, as nationwide protests over the rising cost of living kicked off and are ...

…..alleges plot to attack strangers in Lagos. By Anayo Okoli. A human rights activist, Dr. Bolaji O. Akinyemi has urged aggrieved Nigerians to adopt ...

Protesters in Jos, Plateau State are conducting themselves in an orderly manner as they move from one junction to the other, displaying placards and ...

Police fire live bullets and tear gas at huge crowds in Kano rallying against the rising cost of living.

Residents of Ekiti State have distanced themselves from the nationwide protest meant to address pressing issues in the country.

Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters in Nigeria's capital city Abuja on Thursday, as thousands rallied against escalating cost of living ...

Thousands of Nigerians are protesting against the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

Roads were blocked in parts of the country by either placard-carrying protesters or armed security forces, who were deployed overnight after days of ...

Police in Nigeria have used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the capital, Abuja, and the northern city of Kano as thousands of people in cities across ...

The #EndBadGovernance protests organised across Nigeria have turned violent in major cities such as Kano, Gombe, and Abuja. In some cases, the violence was ...

LAGOS, Nigeria - Thousands of protesters have gathered in several Nigerian cities, in organized nationwide demonstrations against the rising cost of living ...

There was also a heavy security presence in the commercial capital, Lagos, where protesters marched toward government buildings, ringing bells, chanting, and ...

Protests erupted in multiple cities across Nigeria Thursday as frustrated citizens took to the streets, voicing their anger over increasing hunger and “bad ...