Hardship
10 Mar 2024
A Senator from Benue state, Mr Emmanuel Udende.is at the risk of being recalled due to his alleged failure to distribute palliatives meant for his constituents.
5 Mar 2024
A rights group, Nigerian Unemployed Youth Vanguard has blamed the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Olayemi Cardoso for the hyperinflation and it's attendant consequences on the wellbeing of the citizenry.
4 Mar 2024
• NEMA denies attack on Abuja facility • Police arrest 15 suspected warehouse vandals in FCT • Shettima: Protest against hardship in a responsible manner The reality of Nigeria’s grim food insecurity exacerbated by rising food cost became apparent yesterday when hoodlums in Abuja went on a looting spree, carting away food items from public and private facilities.…
1 Mar 2024
During his inauguration on May 29, 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared that fuel subsidy is gone. Fuel subsidy removal was part of the economic reforms the President promised to implement during his campaigns to place Nigeria on a path of prosperity. He asserted that the petrol subsidy regime increasingly favoured the rich more than…
29 Feb 2024
After taking the wind off the sail of a well-mobilised protest with an abrupt suspension, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, yesterday said that they could not proceed with the two-day nationwide protest due to intimidation and threats.
29 Feb 2024
Irked by the hardship being faced by citizens in the Niger Delta and in the country, as well as the slow start by the President Bola Tinubu administration to address the current economic crisis, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has vowed to shut down the country with the ‘mother of all protests’ in the region.
27 Feb 2024
Barring a last minute pull back, the nation’s seaports, schools and hospitals among other government entities would today and tomorrow be under lock and key as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) begin its two-day nationwide protest to register their displeasure against hardship and insecurity in the country.
26 Feb 2024
• Falana seeks protection for protesters, says NLC’s action not contempt of court • Shun protest, Nigeria going through ‘surgical’ solution, Afenifere begs Nigerians Ahead of the planned nationwide protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) tomorrow, 65 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have joined the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) to pull out from the two-day…
24 Feb 2024
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged state governors in the country to make proper use of the extra funds shared from subsidy withdrawal to alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians in their states. It said the state governors should ease the pressure on Abuja.
24 Feb 2024
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Benin Zone, on Thursday, urged the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to work harder and provide effective measures that would cushion the effect of its anti-poor policies that has pushed Nigerians and the Nigerian academics down the intolerable abyss of abject poverty and hardship.
23 Feb 2024
• Says leaders solve problems, make life better, not give excuses • Reduces work hours for civil servants, promises free services in govt hospitals As part of efforts to cushion the effect of the biting economy on citizens, Lagos State Governor, BabajideSanwo-Olu, yesterday, unveiled palliatives across sectors of the economy, including a 25 per cent…
23 Feb 2024
Ahead of the planned nationwide strike action by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Nigeria Civil Society Forum has blamed the 36 states governors of the Federation for the hardship being faced by Nigerians.
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