A group has asked the Amnesty International to vacate Nigeria because of its alleged interference in Nigeria’s maters. The group, Progressive Citizens Congress, marched to the Embassy of the United States on Friday September 2, 2016, to lay their complains. The Progressives Citizens Congress alleged that “There is apparently a concerted effort to make Nigeria…
Some employees of local governments in Edo State on Wednesday brought business activities in the state to a halt following a protest embarked on by them. The demonstrating workers claimed they have not been paid their salaries for months now, saying hunger has almost rendered them powerless. The workers marched in their hundreds from Five…
Some students of the Niger Delta University students recently took to the streets to demonstrate the closure of their school. Students of the institution in Bayelsa State blocked some roads in their area to kick against the strike embark upon by their lecturers. Lecturers of the school stayed away from work after government failed to…
Some members of the opposition party in Rivers State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, stormed the capital of the state, Port Harcourt, demanding the swearing-in of its candidate in the state House of Assembly election. The party faithful, numbering over 2000, on Tuesday morning, besieged the premises of the Rivers State House of Assembly complex on…
Workers of the Federal Ministry Finance, on Monday, staged a peaceful demonstration at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja, demanding the removal of the Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun. The aggrieved employees accused the Minister of not paying their allowances to the tune of N1.2 billion. They claimed that Adeowun has already collected N30 million as annual…
Several workers in Oyo State on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, trooped out en masse to kick against some policies of the Abiola Ajimobi-led administration, which they termed anti-workers. The aggrieved employees in the civil service of the state protested under the umbrella of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC. They stormed several streets in the capital…
Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused Governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, of planning to sponsor protests to disrupt the much-publicised flag off of the UNEP clean-up of Ogoni land on Thursday, June 2, 2016, by President Muhammadu Buhari. The party made this known in a statement signed by its…
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has warned those planning to cause trouble due to the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to have rethink because his men will ruthlessly deal with anyone caught fomenting trouble in the country. In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by the Force spokesperson, Kolawole Adebisi,…
The protest embarked on by students of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, Rivers State on Monday morning has turned violent, Aproko247 has learnt. It was gathered that one of the policemen drafted to quell the demonstration allegedly shot one of the protesting students. According to what was disclosed to us, the victim is a…
There was demonstration at the Benin airport on Sunday after passengers of Arik Air reportedly learnt that they were lied to by management of the airline. It was gathered that the aggrieved passengers were told there was no fuel to take them to their destination, only to discover that the same plane is to ferry…