August 2024
Mystery #IgboMustGo campaign ruffles feathers in Lagos
…Yoruba leaders move to douse ethnic tensions Following the outcries that greeted the #IgboMustGo campaign, prominent Yoruba leaders and organisations have moved swiftly to douse the flames, calling for calm and urging Nigerians to reject the divisive ethnic slur. This is as Southeast leaders and groups have condemned the ethnic profiling and intimidation targeted at […]
Protest: Police reportedly shoot boy dead in FCT
Men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, allegedly shot and killed a young boy in the Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as the #EndBadGovernance protest enters the third day. The boy was said to have been killed at close range around the Zenith Bank area of Kubwa. An eyewitness who spoke after […]
Protest organisers split, say members bribed to sabotage rally
The #EndBadGovernance protest, which began in major cities across the country on Thursday may be losing steam following a division among leaders of the major groups mobilising Nigerians for the mass demonstration. Some of the organisers accused the Federal Government of financially inducing some members to sabotage the protest and weaken its strength after threats […]
Hoodlum stripped me naked in public – Protester
A protester at the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria demonstration in Bauchi State has described how a hoodlum assaulted and stripped her naked in public. Aisha Dogara Adamu, a resident of the Bauchi metropolis, recounted the brutalisation she suffered on the first day of the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests in the state. She said, “On Thursday, August 1, 2024, as scheduled, […]
Organisers seek N4bn donation as protest enters Day 4
As the nationwide protest enters its fourth day, some of the organisers and supporters of the demonstration have set up pages to raise over N4bn through GoFundMe, a popular online crowdfunding platform. Checks by our correspondence show that as of Saturday evening, a total of N4.1bn had been benchmarked to be donated through accounts created […]
Kwara: Police invite protest leaders
Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Victor Olaiya, has invited leaders of the August 1-10, 2024, nationwide hunger protests in the state. A statement by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Ejire Adeyemi Toun, in Ilorin, also cautioned against holding protests outside the court-restricted Metropolitan square in Ilorin.The statement read, “The Kwara State Police […]
Gunmen kidnap Kogi LG chairman
The caretaker chairman of the Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Zacchaeus Michael, has been kidnapped by gunmen. The state Police Public Relations Officer, William Aya, confirmed this on Saturday. Aya told our correspondent that the caretaker chairman was kidnapped on Friday night along Kabba-Okene Road in the Kabba area of the state. “Yes, […]
EndBadGovernance: Peter Obi decries death of protesters
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, during the 2023 elections has commiserated with the families of those who lost their lives during the #EndBadGoverance protests. Several citizens have died since the nationwide protests began on Thursday, August 1. Obi took to his verified X account to mourn those who died “in […]
Yahaya Bello remains a wanted man, slated for arrest – EFCC
Immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is still on the run 107 days after being declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission. EFCC had on April 18, 2024, declared Bello wanted in connection with an alleged case of money laundering to the tune of N80,246,470,089.88. Saturday PUNCH recalled that a group […]
Househelp confesses to killing Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s daughter
A police source has exclusively disclosed that a househelp of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia has confessed to being involved in the murder of her boss’s daughter, Aribemchukwu. The deceased, popularly known as Chuchu, was reportedly killed at her Parkview Estate residence in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. While a family source indicated that she was […]