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09/05/2024

IF YOU DONT KILL APC, APC WILL KILL YOU.

09/03/2024

"NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS ASSERTS UNYIELDING STANCE FOR WORKERS' WELFARE"

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) reaffirms its unwavering pursuit of improved worker welfare amidst calls for a new minimum wage reflective of the country's cost of living. NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, underscores the urgency of addressing economic hardships, warning of looming anarchy if left unattended. With the impending expiration of the current minimum wage, tensions rise as NLC presents its proposal against the backdrop of escalating food scarcity and desperation among Nigerians. Meanwhile, the government pledges commitment to affordable healthcare and enhanced welfare for health workers, amidst growing discontent and calls for action.

08/03/2024

"Nigeria's Government Faces Criticism Over Handling of Ongoing Mass Kidnappings"

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has dispatched troops to rescue over 250 school pupils who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Kaduna state.

This abduction marks one of the largest mass kidnappings in three years, highlighting the ongoing security challenges in Nigeria. The attack occurred in Kuriga school, with conflicting reports on the exact number of children abducted. Local residents reported that gunmen, referred to as bandits, attacked the school, resulting in one casualty.

President Tinubu vowed to ensure the rescue of the abducted pupils and bring the perpetrators to justice. This incident adds to the series of mass abductions targeting educational institutions in Nigeria, prompting calls for better protection of students.

Additionally, recent abductions include over 100 female internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Borno state and more than 100 pupils and teachers in Kaduna state. President Tinubu condemned these abductions and directed security agencies to swiftly rescue the victims and apprehend those responsible.

05/02/2024

ABOLISH THE NIGERIAN SENATE
IT IS NOT A CRIME TO WANT TO HAVE A FUTURE
The agitation to scrap the Nigerian Senate due to the high cost of governance is long overdue. The Senate's abolition is rooted in the belief that a more cost-effective governance structure could redirect resources to crucial sectors like education, healthcare, and infrastructure.

The movement argues that the current structure is financially burdensome for the country, with the Senate being a major contributor to the overall cost. Critics point to the lack of transparency surrounding senators' salaries as a significant issue, as the details are often shrouded in secrecy.

Proponents of scrapping the Senate argue that the funds allocated to maintain the institution could be redirected towards more pressing needs, such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure. They emphasize the need for a leaner government structure that can operate more efficiently and address the socio-economic challenges facing the nation.

01/10/2023

ORGANIZE, TAKE UP A PLACARD.
WRITE YOUR GRIEVANCES, POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
OUR FUTURE MATTERS, LET US TAKE IT BACK

Our grievances, our hopes, and our demands cannot remain silent any longer. It is time for us, the people of Nigeria, to come together as a united force for change.

In our hands lies the power to shape the future of our beloved nation. We cannot afford to stand by as bystanders any longer. It is up to us to take a stand, to speak out, and to demand the changes that will lead us toward a brighter, more just future.

Let our voices be heard on social media, in the streets, and in the halls of power. Let us inspire hope and unity among our fellow Nigerians. Together, we can eradicate corruption, end police brutality, reform the judiciary, and alleviate poverty. Our future matters, and it is up to us to take it back.

In the heart of Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, there exists a collective longing for justice, equality, and a brighter future. We are a people of rich cultural diversity, resilient spirit, and a deep sense of community. Yet, we are also faced with formidable challenges that threaten our nation's progress. Corruption, police brutality, a corrupt judiciary, and pervasive poverty have plagued our society for far too long. However, there is hope – the hope that lies in our unity, our voices, and our collective will to bring about change.

09/06/2021

BUHARI ANTI CORRUPTION FIGHT A FAILURE
Buhari’s fight against corruption is unjust, selective and lacks transparency. Two years into the second term of Buhari’s presidency, corruption remains intractable

03/06/2021

NIGERIANS ARE NOW POOER AS THE CENTRAL BANK DEVALUE THE NAIRA AGAIN N410/$1
Nigeria Devalues Naira on Migration to Single Exchange Rate
Nigeria’s central bank devalued the naira by 7.6% against the dollar as authorities in Africa’s biggest oil producer migrate toward a single exchange-rate system for the local currency.

02/06/2021

NIGERIANS GO HUNGRY AS FOOD PRICES SKYROCKETS
Food inflation rose to 22.95% in March, caused by wide-ranging price increases across items such as cereals, yam, meat, fish and fruits. Those soaring costs have been in part blamed on a worsening conflict between farmers and herders in Nigeria’s agriculture belt that Buhari has struggled to quash.

30/05/2021

CORRUPT NIGERIA POLITICIANS STASH PROPERTIES ABROAD
Nigerian politicians own 800 properties worth $400m in London, Dubai – Chatham House Expert
Matthew Page, an associate fellow of Chatham House, London, U.K., says education and real estate sectors provide opportunities for Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) in Nigeria to launder money.

Mohammed Abacha, laundered money through Nigerian banks or by Nigerian or foreign businessmen to offshore accounts belonging to Mohammed Abacha, Abba Abacha, Abdulkadir Abacha and Abubakar [Atiku] Bagudu. At least US$1.491 billion and GBP 416 million had thus been found by the [panel] to have been embezzled by the Abacha criminal organization.

Several former senior state officials linked to Ibori are tied to properties in Dubai. One is linked to four Dubai properties, purchased for a total of $3.8 million, according to Sandcastles data.

29/05/2021

NIGERIA'S INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE ORDERS SHOOT AT SIGHT IN SOUTH EAST OF NIGERIA
Meanwhile, A leading socio-cultural association of Igbo professionals under the aegis of Nzuko Umuna, has described as horrifying, frightening, and unutterable in a democracy, the shoot-at-order the Inspector General Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, handed to police officers in the South East.

The group, which addressed a world press conference in Abuja on Monday, noted that the IGP gave the directive in Enugu on May 18, when he launched Operation Restore Peace in the Southeast. Insisting that adherence to such directive could lead to human right abuses and total breakdown of law and order in the region, the group, said it has notified the international community, particularly, the International Criminal Court, the United Nation Human Rights Council, as well as various High Commissions and Embassies in Nigeria.

27/05/2021

NIGERIA POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
40.1% OF NIGERIANS LIVE BELOW 1USD A DAY
Forty percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line. More than 82 million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

While Nigeria is known for its oil riches, the reality of the nation is that corruption, unemployment and inequalities have destroyed the nation’s economic framework, causing it to be the poverty capital of the world.

26/05/2021

NIGERIA RANKS 149 IN CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX
MEANING NIGERIA PUBLIC SECTOR IS HIGHLY CORRUPT
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index published annually by Berlin-based Transparency International since 1995 which ranks countries "by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.

The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by Transparency International reveals that persistent corruption is undermining health care systems and contributing to democratic backsliding amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Countries that perform well on the index invest more in health care, are better able to provide universal health coverage and are less likely to violate democratic norms and institutions or the rule of law.

26/05/2021

IS BOKO HARAM LEADER ABUBAKAR SHEKAU DEAD THIS TIME?
The Nigerian military says its investigating claims that Abubakar Shekau, the Boko Haram leader who orchestrated mass kidnappings of schoolchildren during his decade-long war against Western influence, has died in northeast Nigeria.

This time, however, the reports have more credibility. The story is that ISWA fighters tracked down Shekau, killed his fighters, and then demanded that he swear allegiance to Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the head of ISWA.

After a fruitless parley, so the story goes, Shekau tried to kill himself—and some within ISWA leadership—using a su***de vest. Another version has it that he shot himself in the chest, and a few of his followers escaped with the badly wounded Shekau, living to fight another day.

25/05/2021

NIGERIA IS RANKED 149 IN GLOBAL CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX
Corruption is the single greatest obstacle preventing Nigeria from achieving its enormous potential. It drains billions of dollars a year from the country’s economy, stymies development, and weakens the social contract between the government and its people.

23/05/2021

JUSTICE FOR PROTESTERS
For nearly two weeks angry young Nigerians took to the streets, blocking major roads across cities in Africa's most populous nation.

They marched in tens of thousands chanting "Enough is Enough" against police brutality and violence.

The group's initial demands were for a notorious police unit known as the Special Anti Robbery Squad, or SARS, to be shut down, but the marches have since morphed into protests campaigning for police reform and an end to bad governance in the oil-rich country.

23/05/2021

Nigeria External Debt reached 33.3 USD billion in Dec 2020, compared with 32.0 USD billion in the previous quarter.

The data reached an all-time high of 33.3 USD billion in Dec 2020 and a record low of 3.3 USD billion in Mar 2007.

Debt Management Office Nigeria provides quarterly External Debt in USD. External Debt covers General Government Debt only.

30/11/2020

TRUTH IS TRUTH

27/11/2020

The Buhari Regime keeps denying even in the face of real evidence. Thank you CNN.

23/11/2020

INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

22/10/2020

THE WOMAN OF OUR TIME, AISHA YESUFU, SAYING IT AS IT IS ON CNN.

17/10/2020

PORTHARCOURT PROTESTS

22/09/2020

A DICTATOR IS A DICTATOR
DICTATOR BUHARI FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT A MATTER OF OPINION
FREE LANCE CORPORAL MARTINS, FREE OMOYELE SOWORE, FREE DADIYATA, FREE MUBARAK BALA, FREE YAHAYA SHARIF AMINU
IT IS NOT A CRIME TO WANT TO HAVE A FUTURE

The human rights situation in Nigeria was currently characterised, by serious human rights violations such as extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and other ill-treatment.

Since assuming office in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari's administration has arrested and detained journalists, religious leaders, activists and others that have spoken up against his government.

Amnesty International said that the human rights situation in Nigeria was currently characterised, by serious human rights violations such as extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and other ill-treatment.

22/09/2020

POVERTY IS THE MOTHER OF CRIME
GOVERNOR ABIODUN PAY OGUN PENSIONERS
Pensioners in Ogun State have called on Governor Dapo Abiodun to pay their gratuities.

The pensioners claimed that state government retirees were owed from 2014 while local government counterparts are owed from 2011.

The pensioners, who earlier protested around Abiola Way in Abeokuta, asked Gov Abiodun to repeal what they termed “the obnoxious pension bill”, asking him not to deprive them of their legitimate pension and gratuities.

At a press conference addressed in Abeokuta, the Chairman, Nigeria Union of Pensioners in the state, Mr. Waheed Oloyede, said the proposal by government to release a sum of N500 million quarterly from January 2021 for payment of gratuities was unacceptable.

12/09/2020

STAND UNITED AGAINST TERRORISM
Gov Ortom demands release of 40 repentant militias arrested by military after killing of Gana

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged the military to set free 40 repentant militias it arrested and kept in custody after killing Terwase Akwaza, alias Gana.

The governor, equally called on the military to release some official vehicles it purportedly confiscated.

Gana, a notorious criminal and the 40 other militias had accepted Governor Ortom’s amnesty to criminals in the state and were being transported with the official vehicles to the government House in Makurdi when they were stopped by the military.

Gana was shot dead while the other 40 militias and the vehicles were reportedly arrested by the military.

Speaking to newsmen on Friday, after a five-hour security meeting at the Government House Makurdi, Ortom said the call for the release of the repentant militias was important to enable them embrace the amnesty programme of the state government.

He said, “It is the resolve of this meeting, the expanded State Security Council meeting, that the repentant youths who were arrested by the military should be released so that they will continue from where they were coming to receive their amnesty and they were arrested.

“Also items that were confiscated, we are also appealing to the military to return them. Some of those vehicles were hired, some are official vehicles to our government officials. Some other things are documents. We appeal that all these be returned to us.”

The military had claimed that Gana was killed following a firefight on September 8, but Ortom maintained that soldiers snatched him from a government convoy conveying repentant militants in Gboko.

16/08/2020

Stranded ladies arrive from Lebanon

07/08/2020

HUMAN RIGHTS IS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION
NO TO HATE SPEECH FINE
NO TO HATE SPEECH BILL
Nigerian Government Increases Hate Speech Fine From N500,000 To N5,000,000
The Nigerian Government has increased the penalty for hate speech in the country from N500,000 to N5m

The announcement was made in a statement by the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture on Tuesday.

Quoting the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, during the unveiling of the Reviewed Broadcasting Code, the statement said the development followed a Presidential directive on the regulatory role of the National Broadcasting Commission as well as the conduct of the various broadcast stations before, during and after elections.

06/08/2020

BUHARI IS INCOMPETENT
NO TO FUEL PRICE INCREASE
Fuel queues returned to major parts of Lagos metropolis and the Federal Capital Territory yesterday, following announcement of an increase in the ex-depot price of petrol.

Majority of the filling station visited by Daily Sun yesterday had long vehicular queues as consumers engaging in panic buying in a bid to beat the new fuel price while other stations hoarded the commodity in an effort to make some extra profit from their old stock.

The Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had in a memo to all depots and marketers on Wednesday announced an increment of N5.32 per litre in the Ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit(PMS) popularly called petrol.

Prior to this latest increase, depot owners sold the product for between N133.30 and N133.50 per litre.

The hike in ex-depot price may have pushed a litre of petrol to N150 or more after marketers’ margin of N6 per litre and transporters margin are added to the new ex-depot price of N138.62, with fuel landing at N150 per litre or more at filling stations

06/08/2020

IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH
KADUNA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IMPEACH EL-RUFAI
Another attack on three communities in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State has reportedly left about 20 people killed.

Reports also say many more people were left injured by the attack, said to have been carried out by suspected militia.

The attack which reoortesly took place on Thursday (today) affected Kurmin Masara, Apyia Shyim, and Takmawai communities.

The police in the state are yet to confirm the latest attack, however, speaking to Channels Television, the chairman of Zango Kataf Local Government, Elias Manza said that armed men, believed to be Fulani militia, invaded the three communities in the early hours of Thursday.

According to Manza, seven people were killed in Takmawai, with 13 killed in Kurmin Masara.

The attack came as insecurity in Southern-Kaduna continues to worsen recently.

05/08/2020

REVOLUTION NOW PROTEST HITS NIGERIA STREETS
ENOUGH OF BAD GOVERNANCE
REVOLUTION REVOLUTION REVOLUTION

05/08/2020

WELCOME THE NEW SANI ABACHA
WELCOME TO DICTATORSHIP
REVOLUTION NOW protests: Buhari, security agencies under fire
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned violent attacks on protesters in Abuja and other parts of Nigeria.

It warned the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to end the use of excessive force against protesters, and allow citizens exercise their human rights.

On Wednesday, the Department of State Service (DSS) arrested Olawale Bakare and some co-protesters wearing orange-coloured caps around Olaiya area of Osogbo, Osun State.

Several others were arrested by the police and the Nigerian Army in Abuja.

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